LAB MEMBERS
Current Individuals Profiles
Burggren Lab Photos - Previous Years
Where are they now?
Burggren Lab - 2017-2018 Academic Year
Current Individual Profiles
Lab Principal Investigator
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- Warren W. Burggren (B.Sc. University of Calgary; Ph.D., University of East Anglia, UK)
- Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
P.O. Box 305220, Denton, TX, 76203-5220,U.S.A.
phone: 940) 565-7705 fax: (940) 565-3821
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Research Professor
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- Hiroshi Tazawa (M.D., Ph.D.)
- UNT Distinguished Research Professor investigating avian embryonic physiology.
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Research Scientist I
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- Benjamin Dubansky (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, LA, USA)
- Ben's research interests are centered on the vertebrate response to environmental stressors. He is particularly interested in how developing vertebrate embryos are affected by such stressors and has been deeply involved with research pertaining to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on adult and embryonic fish, conducting extensive and ongoing field and laboratory-based experiments. He is presently working on understanding how exposure to toxicants in adults can result in transfer of adaptive traits to successive generations.
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Lab Manager
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- Maria Rojas-Antich (B.Sc, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela)
- "A succesful biology program is that in which the students experience excitement & the sense of amazement that inspires love for biology"
(Dorrell et al. 2012)
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Graduate Students
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- Sylvia Branum (B.Sc., Southern Methodist University, M.Sc. University of North Texas)
- Sylvia's research interests are focused around how environmental stressors affect the development of the cardiovascular and renal systems. Presently she is using an avian model organism (Gallus domesticus) to understand how altering water and solute balance affects the embryo's ability to osmoregulate during critical periods of development. Sylvia is especially interested in the role of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide on the interactions and crosstalk that occurs as the cardiac and renal systems develop and its role in osmoregulation.
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- Jenika Snachez (B.Sc., Biology Major, Math and Physics Minor, Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC)
- Jenika is interested in the developmental origins of vascular anomalies, more specifically venous malformations. She is currently working with White Leghorn chicken (Gallus domesticus) embryos to understand the effects of varying concentrations of folic acid and nitric oxide on angiogenesis. She is also interested in the role these factors will play during different developmental stages.
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- Melissa Lewallen (B.A. University of North Texas, M.Sc. University of North Texas)
- Melissa is interested in how acute and chronic stressors affect cellular aging and age-related phenotypes, as well as epigenetic tranfer of such effects. Melissa is currently working with planarian model (Schmidtea mediterranea), to understand how a stressor will affect both the sexual and asexual species. She is particularly interested in how the process of regeneration and the mode of reproduction in this animal may affect the behavioral, physiological, and molecular response to stress, as well as telomere length and telomerase activity.
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- Naim Bautista (B.Sc. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México)
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- Lindsey Daniels (B.Sc., Biology Major, Chemistry and Spanish Minor, University of North Texas)
- Lindsey is interested in cellular and physiological variations that occur within the first 4 hours of embryonic development. She is currently researching developmental variation in embryos from two different populations of Killifish (Fundulus grandis). How stressors affect initial variation between the two populations is her primary focus. Additional experiments are underway to determine the mechanisms behind these differences.
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- Karem Vazquez (B.Sc., Biology Major, Instituto Tecnológicode Ciudad Victoria, Mexico)
- Karem is interested on the effects of temperature and toxicants on aquatic organisms. She is currently working with zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio) to understand the physiological responses to combined exposure to temperature and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during different developmental stages.
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- Alicia Dunton (B.Sc., Spanish minor, Truman State University)
- Alicia is interested in the effects of toxic substances and unique environmental conditions on cardiovascular, neurological, and respiratory physiology. She is currently working with zebrafish (Danio rerio) to examine the effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil on the integrity of the blood brain barrier.
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Post-doctoral Fellows
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- Torben Goëpel (B.Sc., M.Sc., Dr. rer. nat., Universität Rostock, Germany))
- Postdoctoral fellow (DFG)
- Torben is interested in the evolution of the circulatory system in invertebrates. In his work, he tries to understand the evolution of morphology, function, and physiology of the circulatory system of arthropods. Currently, he investigates phenotypic plasticity in crustaceans. He is also interested in theory and philosophy of evolutionary biology, morphology, and systematics.
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Visiting Students
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- Lara do Amaral Silva (B.Sc., University of Western São Paulo, Brazil, M.Sc. São Paulo State University, Brazil)
- Lara's research interests are centered on animals' physiologicals mechanisms and responses to environmeltal stressors. She is currently interested on effects of dioxin exposure in thermoregulatory, metabolic, inflammatory and immune responses on birds as well as dioxin effects in their vascular and cardiac development.
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- Paola Montserrat Mendez Arzate (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico)
- Undergraduate research student investigating the effects of oil exposure on the early stages of development of the circulatory system using White Leghorn (Gallus gallus) chicken embryos as the animal model.
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Burggren Lab Previous Years
2017-2018 Academic Year
2016-2017 Academic Year
2015-2016 Academic Year
2014-2015 Academic Year
2013-2014 Academic Year
2012-2013 Academic Year
2011-2012 Academic Year
2010-2011 Academic Year
2009-2010 Academic Year
2008-2009 Academic Year
2007-2008 Academic Year
2006-2007 Academic Year
2005-2006 Academic Year
2004-2005 Academic Year
2003-2004 Academic Year
2002-2003 Academic Year
2001-2002 Academic Year
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Past Lab Members - Where are they now?
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
- Prescilla Perrichon (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Marine Research, Storebø, Norway)
- Amelie Crespel (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
- Casey Mueller (Post-Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)
- Sarah Andrewartha (Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia)
- Francis Pan - 2010 (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Southern California, USA)
- Dao Ho - 2010 (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Georgia Health Sciences University, USA)
- Bonnie Blossman-Myer (Adjunct Faculty, University of North Texas, USA)
- Edward Dzialowski (Faculty, University of North Texas, USA)
- Jordi Altimiras (Liknopings University, Sweden)
- Regina Fritsche (Professional Staff, AstraZenca, Sweden)
- Tobias Wang (Faculty, Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Stephen Warburton (Faculty, Northern Arizona University, USA)
- Frances Ragsdale (Faculty, Winona State University, USA)
- Andrew Gannon (Faculty, Birmingham Southern College)
- Alan Pinder (Faculty, Dalhousie University, Canada)
- Timothy Vitalis (Professional Staff, biOasis Technologies Inc., Canada)
- Bernd Pelster (Faculty, University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- Allan Smits (Faculy, Quinnipiac University, USA)
Former Ph.D Students
- Sheila Sadruddin - 2017 (Dallas IVF)
- Josele Flores Santin - 2016 (Faculty, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México)
- Fernando Sanchez Mendez - 2015 (Faculty, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México)
- Kelly Reyna - 2010 (Faculty, University of North Texas, Director, UNT-Quail)
- Francis Pan - 2009 (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Southern California)
- Greta Bolin - 2009 (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of North Texas)
- Tara Blank - 2009 (Science Advisor for American Environmental Health Studies Project)
- Dao Ho - 2008 (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Georgia Regents University)
- Bonnie Myer - 2007 (Lecturer, University of North Texas, USA)
- Brian Bagatto, 2001 (Faculty, University of Akron, USA)
- Dane Crossley,1999 (Faculty, University of North Texas, USA)
- Paul Territo,1996 (Faculty, Indiana University, USA)
- Tobias Wang, 1993 (Faculty, Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Lucy Ping-Chun Hou, 1991 (Faculty, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
- XiXi Jia, 1991 (Professional Staff, Emory University, USA)
- Robert Infantino, 1991 (Faculty and Assoc. Dean, University of Maryland, USA)
- Carl Reiber, 1991 (Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
- Peter Kimmel, 1990 (Faculty, Castelton State College, USA)
- Alan Pinder, 1985 (Faculty, Dalhousie University)
- Dana Quinn, 1982 (Private Practice)
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