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
Anthony Sanchez, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow anthony.sanchez@austin.utexas.edu Since: September 2020 |
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Graduate Students
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Lab Manager
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Research Technician
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
Riya Patel
riyapatel5414@utexas.edu Since: August 2021 
Sanika Joshi
sanikajoshi@utexas.edu Since: October 2022 |
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Lab Photo November 2022
Former lab members
Ariel Klavaris. Visiting PhD student from Cyprus, July 2022 - September 2022.
Noah Kahan. Lab Manager, September 2021 - August 2022.
Manal Boti El Hassani. Undergraduate Researcher Feb 2021 - Aug 2022.
Angela Ge. Undergraduate Researcher Jan 2021 - Dec 2021. Continuing her degree in BME at UT.
Hadis Askari. Livestrong Cancer Institutes Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2021. Returned to UT Austin for Pre-med.
Seoyun Lee, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Sep 2018 - Jan 2021. Returned to South Korea.
JaeJin Kim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Aug 2017 - Jan 2021. Assistant Professor, Hallym University, Dept of Life Sciences, South Korea (since Sept 2021).
Anusha Sriraman, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Feb 2019 - Oct 2020. Moved to Dallas - Analyst for Decisive Pharma/Consulting Firm.
anusha@thinkdecisive.com
anusha@thinkdecisive.com
Ramhari Kumbhar, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Feb 2017 - Aug 2020. Joined the Mao Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
rkumbha1@jhmi.edu
rkumbha1@jhmi.edu
Haity Qin, Undergraduate Researcher, Sep. 2017 - May 2020. Technician UT Southwestern.
Emilie Mylne, Visiting masters student Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2019. Continuing her degree at Université Paris Diderot.
Li-Ya Chiu, Ph.D. Dec. 2012-April 2018 (PhD), Postdoc: April 2018 - Sept. 2018. Joined EMD-Merck in Boston, MA.
liyachiu@utexas.edu
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
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. Moved to Minnesota.
Pauline Clément, Visiting masters student Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2017. Finished her degree at Université Paris Diderot.
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. Currently, Associate Director at Avance Biosciences, Inc. Houston, TX.
Joined the lab of Trey Westbrook (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) as a postdoctoral researcher. Currently, Associate Director at Avance Biosciences, Inc. Houston, TX.
Coco Chu, High school volunteer researcher, Apr. 2017 to June 2017. Attending Dartmouth College.
Mercedes Perez, Lab Manager, Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2016. Moved to Eugene, Oregon with her family.
Oshadi Wimalarathne, Undergraduate student, Sept. 2015 - June 2016
Manos Zacharioudakis, PhD Student, GIF, Paris, France. Nov. 2014- Feb. 2015
Renaud Popre, Visiting masters student from the Magistère Européen de Génétique program Apr. 2014 - Aug. 2014
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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