LAB MEMBERS
Principal Investigator - Kyle M. Miller, Ph.D.
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Kyle Miller obtained his PhD from the University of College London, working in the lab of Julie Cooper at the London Research Institute. His PhD work focused on studying telomeres and their roles in replication and genome maintenance in fission yeast (2004). He then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco focusing on chromatin and genome stability in budding yeast in the lab of Dr. David Tocyzski. He next completed another postdoctoral training in the lab of Prof. Stephen Jackson at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, England. This work focused on understanding the role of histone modifications and chromatin modifying enzymes in DNA double-strand break repair. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. He is also a member of the Livestrong Cancer Institute (Dell Medical Center, UT Austin) and an adjunct member of the Dan Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Currently, his research aims to understand genome maintenance and the DNA damage response in the context of chromatin, cancer and anticancer therapies. His lab employs genetics, genomics, cell biology and molecular biology in both mouse and human tissue culture systems to gain insights into these areas of research. His lab applies these multifaceted and diverse approaches to these areas of research in hopes of defining the relationship between chromatin and DNA damage responses, as well as gaining insights into the mechanisms of cancer therapeutic drugs that act at the chromatin and DNA level. His work has obtained funding from the National Cancer Institute (NIH), Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), American Cancer Society, the Keck Foundation and NASA.
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Postdoctoral Scientists
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Graduate Students
Lab Manager and Research Scientist Assistant
Undergraduate Students
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Lab Photo September 2018
Former lab members
Li-Ya Chiu, Ph.D. Dec. 2012-April 2018 (PhD), Postdoc: April 2018 - Sept. 2018
Joined EMD-Merck in Boston, MA.
liyachiu@utexas.edu
Joined EMD-Merck in Boston, MA.
liyachiu@utexas.edu
Poonam Agarwal, Ph.D., Dec. 2012-Dec. 2017 (PhD), Postdoc: Jan. 2018 - June 2018
Joined the lab of Kevin Wang (Stanford University) as a postdoctoral researcher.
poonamag@stanford.edu
Joined the lab of Kevin Wang (Stanford University) as a postdoctoral researcher.
poonamag@stanford.edu
Justin W. Leung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Jan 2013 - Dec 2017, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas Medical Center
jwleung@uams.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow Jan 2013 - Dec 2017, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas Medical Center
jwleung@uams.edu
Jeffrey Dick, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2017 - Feb 2016, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. jedick@email.unc.edu
Lara Emery, Lab Manager and Research Scientist Assistant, Sept. 2016 to Sept. 2017 to move to Minnesota.
Pauline Clément, Visiting masters student Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2017 to continue her degree at Université Paris Diderot. clementpauline.clement@gmail.com
Fade Gong, Ph.D., Nov. 2011-Aug. 2016 (PhD), Postdoc: Sept. 2016 - Aug 2017
Joined the lab of Trey Westbrook (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) as a postdoctoral researcher. fgong@utexas.edu
Joined the lab of Trey Westbrook (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) as a postdoctoral researcher. fgong@utexas.edu
Coco Chu, High school volunteer researcher, Apr. 2017 to June 2017 to attend Dartmouth College.
Mercedes Perez, Lab Manager, Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2016 to move to Eugene, Oregon with her family.
Oshadi Wimalarathne, Undergraduate student, Sept. 2015 - June 2016. oshadiw@gmail.com
Wei-Ta Chen, Masters student in CMB program Feb. 2012 - received Masters May 2015 and pursued a degree in Biostatistics at UT.
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