Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator, Genome Technology Branch
Head, Developmental Genomics Section

Selected Publications

Burgess S., Hopkins N. Use of pseudotyped retroviruses in zebrafish as genetic tags. Methods Enzymol, 327:145-161. 2000. [PubMed]

Golling G., Amsterdam A., Sun Z., Antonelli M., Maldonado E., Chen W., Burgess S., Haldi M., Artzt K., Farrington S., Lin S.Y., Nissen R.M., and Hopkins N. Insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish rapidly identifies genes essential for early vertebrate development. Nat Genet, 31(2):135-40. 2002. [PubMed]

Nissen, R.M., Yan, J., Amsterdam, A., Hopkins, N., and Burgess S.M. Zebrafish foxi one modulates cellular responses to fgf signaling required for the integrity of ear and jaw patterning. Development, 130(11):2543-54. 2003. [PubMed]

Wu X., Li Y., Crise B., Burgess S. Transcription start regions in the human genome are favored targets for MLV integration. Science, 300:1749-51. 2003. [PubMed]

Kurita K., Burgess S.M., Sakai N. Transgenic zebrafish produced by retroviral infection of in vitro-cultured sperm. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:1263-1267. 2004. [PubMed]

Yan, J., Xu, L., Crawford, G., Wang, Z., Burgess, S.M. The forkhead transcription factor FoxI1 remains bound to condensed mitotic chromosomes and stably remodels chromatin structure. Mol Cell Biol. 26(1): 155-68. 2006. [PubMed]

Wu, X., Luke, B.T., Burgess, S.M. Redefining the common insertion site. Virology. 20;344(2): 292-5. 2006. [PubMed]

Wang D, Jao LE, Zheng N, Dolan K, Ivey J, Zonies S, Wu X, Wu K, Yang H, Meng Q, Zhu Z, Zhang B, Lin S, Burgess SM. Efficient genome-wide mutagenesis of zebrafish genes by retroviral insertions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, (30):12428-33. 2007. [PubMed]

Zeng J, Yan J, Wang T, Mosbrook-Davis D, Dolan KT, Christensen R, Stormo GD, Haussler D, Lathrop RH, Brachmann RK, Burgess SM. Genome wide screens in yeast to identify potential binding sites and target genes of DNA-binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Res, 36:e8. 2008. [PubMed]

Jao L, Madison L, Chen W, Burgess SM. Using retroviruses as the mutagenesis tool to explore the zebrafish genome. Brief Func Genomic Proteomic, doi:10.1093/bfgp/eln038. 2008. [PubMed]

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