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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]
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Thesis | Analysis of the cholera toxin positive regulatory gene, toxR (1985) |
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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