Background
Burgess was born on May 26, 1966 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Burgess was born on May 26, 1966 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.
Burgess received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1996, where he studied the genetics of mitochondrial fusion and fission in yeast. He trained with a professor Nancy Hopkins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was part of a large effort to develop insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish, coupled with a genetic screen to identify genes essential for early development of a vertebrate.
Burgess has been a senior investigator and a head of the Developmental Genomics Section at the National Human Genome Research Institute, since 2001. Burgess participated in a large-scale genetic screen for embryonic lethal phenotypes in the zebrafish. Also his group, who he heads, developed new techniques for high-throughput identification of retroviral integration sites and rapidly identified proviral insertion sites as a first step in developing a pipeline to mutate all the genes in the zebrafish genome.
His laboratory is inactivating all tyrosine kinases in zebrafish and carefully characterizing the phenotypes for these mutants, in addition to working closely with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network to knock out genes that are predicted to cause rare genetic disease.
Shawn Burgess is married to Ellen Shandling.
