Virginia Miller | |
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 At the 2022 Microbe annual meeting | |
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| Thesis | Analysis of the cholera toxin positive regulatory gene, toxR (1985) |
Virginia L. Miller is a microbiologist known for her work on studying the factors leading to disease caused by bacteria. Miller is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2003) and a former Pew Charitable Trust Biomedical Scholar (1989). [1]
Miller has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1979). [2] She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1985 where she worked on the expression of genes associated with Cholera toxin. [3] Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Stanford University. [4] She moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and earned tenure in 1994. [5] She moved to Washington University in St. Louis in 1996, and then to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. [4] As of 2021, Miller is a professor of genetics, microbiology, and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2]
Miller is known for her research into bacterial pathogenesis, the factors leading to the onset of disease from specific species of bacteria. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Her early research examined the synthesis of the cholera toxin by Vibrio cholerae [11] [12] and identified environmental signals that lead V. cholerae to express the proteins needed to make the cholera toxin. [13] She went on to examine the mechanisms by which another bacteria pathogen - Yersinia pestis - enters cells [14] and cause disease. [15] She has also worked on how Salmonella [16] [17] and Klebsiella pneumoniae [18] [19] cause disease. In brief, she mostly worked in the areas of Microbiology, Yersinia enterocolitica and Virulence. [20]
In 1989, Miller was named a Pew Scholar. [1] In 2003, Miller was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. [21] [5]
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