Warren Burggren

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Dr. Warren Burggren teaches courses on topics in physiology, adaptation and environmental biology, and mentors graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Dr. Burggren's research and teaching interests are in developmental physiology, and epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance.

Degrees:

Doctor of Philosophy in physiology, University of East Anglia

Bachelor of Science in biology, University of Calgary

Experience:

Burggren has specific research interests in the development of the embryonic heart, respiratory and renal systems. He also studies the phenotypic plasticity of developing animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate, and epigenetic influences on development and epigenetic inheritance of phenotypic traits.

Selected Publications:

The following are the most recent publications of Burggren's:

1. Smith, B., Martinez-Bautista, G., Williams, S., Burggren, W. and Crossley, D.II. (2025) The impact of adult and lifelong hypoxia on ventricle phenotype in zebrafish (Danio rerio). American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory and Integrative Biology.  329(1):R230-R243.
2. Dunton, A., Bautista, N., Crespel, A., and Burggren, W.  (2025) Crude oil, hypoxia, or their combination affects adult brain morphology and offspring growth but not social and exploratory behaviors in zebrafish. Science of the Total Environment.  980: 179508.
3. Martinez-Bautista, G. Cartee, M.R., Kunder, D. Lee, C., Tang, K., Nagarajan, N., Padilla, P. and Burggren, W. (2025) Genetics of physiological variation within and between larval wild-Type AB and backcrossed NHGRI-1 zebrafish (Danio rerio). Fishes. 10(2), 59.
4. Burggren, W., Dzialowski, E. and Tzschentke, B. (2025) The avian embryo as a time-honored animal model in developmental, biomedical and agricultural research. Philosophical Proceedings of the Royal Society – B.  https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0438

5. Burggren, W., Abramova, R., Bautista, N.M., Fritsche Danielson, R., Dubansky, B., Gupta, A., Hansson, K., Iyer, N., Jagadeeswaran, P., Jennbacken, K., Rydén-Markinhutha, K., Patel, V., Raman, R., Trivedi, H., Vazquez Roman, K., Williams, S., Wang, Q.D. (2024) A larval zebrafish model of cardiac physiological recovery following cardiac arrest and myocardial hypoxic damage. Biology Open. 13(9):bio060230.

6. Le, M.l., Burggren, W. and Bautista Martinez, G. Development and sex affect respiratory responses to temperature and dissolved oxygen in the air breathing fishes Betta splendens and Trichopodus trichopterus. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 51, 27.

7. Fahlman, A., Burggren, W. and Milsom, W. The role of cognition as a factor regulating the diving responses of animals, including humans. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227(20) :jeb246472.