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 Warren W. Burggren

  Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas

 P.O. Box 305220, Denton, TX, 76203-5220,U.S.A.

 phone:  (940) 565-2497 or (940) 369-7705 fax: (940) 565-3821

 burggren@unt.edu      www.biol.unt.edu/~burggren

       Our NSF-funded research program focuses on the development of

physiological processes in animals.  We answer broad, overarching questions

involving the ontogeny of physiological regulation, using a framework provided by

critical windoes, developmental trajectories, epigenetics and "fetal programing".  

We employ a wide variety of tractable animal models, including fruit flies, 

zebrafish, air-breathing fish, amphibians, birds and atypical mammals with 

useful characteristics (e.g. armadillos showing polyembryony).   

We are highly dependent upon the creative efforts of research associates, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students 

and undergraduates.  In cooperation with the other participating labs in the Developmental Physiology and Genetics

Research Cluster at UNT, and with a number of national and international collaborators, we are determining:

- developmental mechanisms for the physiological regulation of the  cardiovascular, respiratory and renal 

           systems in embryos, larvae and adults;

- early interactions between physiological systems (espeicially the cardiovascular and renals systems)

              during development;

- how environmental disturbances modify normal developmental trajectories, and  whether developing 

             physiologies can restore themselves to normal phenotypes;

- the epigentics (transgenertional transfer) of cardiovascular structure and function, and;

- the physiological genomics of hypoxia tolerance in embryos and larvae, and how mutations contribute to, and

             detract from, this tolerance.

The Burggren Lab is part of the Developmental Physiology and Genetics Research Group  one of UNT's recognized research clusters.

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