Virginia L. Miller

Virginia L. Miller is a

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]

Research

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 (69.74%), Yersinia enterocolitica (51.32%) and Virulence (48.03%).^[20]

Awards and honors

In 1989, Miller was named a

• Miller, Virginia L.; Taylor, Ronald K.; Mekalanos, John J. (1987-01-30). "Cholera toxin transcriptional activator ToxR is a transmembrane DNA binding protein". Cell. 48 (2): 271–279.
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• Miller, V L; Mekalanos, J J (1988-06-01). "A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR". Journal of Bacteriology. 170 (6): 2575–2583.
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• Taylor, R. K.; Miller, V. L.; Furlong, D. B.; Mekalanos, J. J. (1987-05-01). "Use of phoA gene fusions to identify a pilus colonization factor coordinately regulated with cholera toxin". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84 (9): 2833–2837.
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