Dr. Burgess is a Senior Investigator at the National Institues of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, Australia, then received a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, investigating neuronal migration during cortical development in the laboratory of Orly Reiner. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, he established a laboratory at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 2008, studying neural circuits and behavior using zebrafish.