News 2023
November 27: Doo successfully defended his thesis entitled "Investigation of MYM-type Zinc Finger Proteins in DNA Damage Response and Cancer". Congratulations Dr. Lee!!! We celebrated this accomplishment with some nice science inspired cakes. We all wish you success for your future career post-graduate school.
November 15: Kyle, Shihchun and Jullian attended and presented at the 4th MD Anderson and UT Austin Collaborative Research Summit at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. It was great to see one of the worlds top Cancer Institutes and to build ties between our institutions with hopefully some new collaborations.
October 24: Congratulations to Riya Patel, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, who has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her project entitled "Defining the Role of Bromodomain Proteins in the DNA Damage Response (DDR). Well done!
October 18: Our proposal studying a new target in glioma brain cancers has been funded by the UT Austin/MD Anderson Cancer Center Collaborative Pilot Project Grant. Congratulations to all involved and we look forward to collaborating with our colleagues at MD Anderson on this project.
October 10: Sofia is already impressing as she won the best presentation award describing her summer work in the Harris lab at UTHSCSA at the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!
October 2: First year CMB student Shelby Rheinschmidt joins the lab for her second rotation. Welcome!
September 29: The Miller lab enjoys a Moje Tee with our 3 CMB rotation students to celebrate the end of the rotations and another beautiful, sunny and hot day in Austin.
September 21: Congratulations to everyone involved in our collaborative study with the Harris and Gromak labs identifying R-loops as the target of APOBEC3B, which is involved in mutagenesis and cancer. The paper is out today in Nature Genetics!
September 1: Kyle is honored with a named professorship from the MBS Dept on his first day of officially being promoted to Professor. He now holds the title of Benjamin Clayton Centennial Professor of Biochemistry. Congratulations!
September 1: First year CMB student Laura Purkey joins the lab for her first rotation. Welcome!
September 1: First year CMB student Rebecca Barnes joins the lab for her first rotation. Welcome!
September 1: First year CMB student Varshini Arunkumar joins the lab for her first rotation. Welcome!
September 1: Sofia Henderson joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Sofia is a sophomore studying Biochemistry and Pre-Med. Welcome!
July 5th: Sophia Liu joins the lab as an undergraduate work-study research assistant. Sophia is a sophomore studying Psychology and Pre-Med. Welcome!
May 15th: Wei-Che Tseng officially joins the lab as a CMB PhD student. Welcome!
April 20th: A new paper from our collaborator Victoria Belancio and her lab (Tulane Cancer Center) entitled "A novel role of TRIM28 B box domain in L1 retrostransposition and ORF2p-mediated cDNA synthesis" has been published in Nucleic Acids Research.
April 4th: We want to congratulate both Cem Ozdemir and Jullian Perren for passing their PhD qualifying exams! Way to go! Cem and Jullian are now officially PhD candidates and can focus on their research projects. This is definitely worth celebrating with champagne, cake and Cem's famous homemade baklava.
March 22nd: Congratulations to former postdocs Seoyun and Kim for the publication of a new review on R-loops in leukemia. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/6/5966.
February 24: Kyle is promoted to Full Professor, which will be official Sept 1! Kyle would like to thank everyone who has participated in the success of the lab. Thank you so much!
January 18th: Dora Halder joins the lab. Dora is a freshman and is majoring in Biology. Welcome!
News 2022
December 17th: An undergraduate research technician in the lab, Shihchun Wang, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with high honors from UT Austin. Shihchun will now continue her research in the lab full time as a research assistant working on acetylation and genome integrity in human cancers. Congratulations!!! We look forward to having you in the lab full time and following your exciting project.
December 7th: The Miller lab enjoys our annual Christmas lab dinner and Secret Santa gift exchange at the Eberly to celebrate the holidays and another successful year for the lab. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all!
December 2nd: Doohyung Lee receives the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship for Spring 2023. Congratulations Doo!!!
November 16th: Elizabeth Wu joins the group as an undergraduate researcher in the Miller lab. Elizabeth is interested in telomeres and will help work on this emerging area of research in the lab. Welcome to the team!
November 15th: Linh Nguyen joins the team as a rotation student in the Miller lab. Linh holds the distinction of being the first biochemistry ILS student to rotate in the lab! Welcome!
October 24th: We are delighted to announce the hiring of William Fynes as a new technician and lab manager. Welcome back to UT and to the Miller lab!
October 21st: A new paper in Molecular Cell from our collaborator Rodney O'Sullivan has been published. Congratulations on this very exciting work! Check it out here.
October 20th: A new methods paper from the lab from former members Seoyun Lee and Jae Jin Kim has been published in Methods in Molecular Biology. Congratulations! Check it out here.
October 17th: We welcome Sanika Joshi to the Miller lab. Sanika is an undergraduate researcher who will be working with Anthony on testing and validating a new epigenetic inhibitor in cancer therapeutics.
September 12th: We welcome Adam Weinstein from Sharon Plon's lab at Baylor College of Medicine to the lab. Adam is visiting for the week as part of our ongoing collaboration.
September 7th: Time flies! After a wonderful two month stint in our lab, we wish Ariel all the best as he returns to Cyprus to continue his PhD work in the Kirmizis lab. Looking forward to continuing our collaborative work together!
September 6th: We are excited to host two CMB rotation students, Vindya Senanayake and Wei-Che, for their first rotation. Welcome and we hope you enjoy your time in the lab!
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August 30th: The lab wishes Noah all the best with his pursuit for a career in medicine.
August 22th: Undergraduates Kay Ye and Sunny Hong join the lab. Welcome to the team!
August 12th: The lab wishes Manal farewell in her last week. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! We all wish you great success in your future!
August 8th: A new review on space radiation, "Looking on the Horizon; Potential and Unique Approaches to Developing Radiation Countermeasures for Deep Space Travel" has just been published in Life Sciences in Space Radiation. Congratulations to Kyle and all of the authors!
July 21st: The Miller Lab would like to welcome our visiting PhD student from the University of Cyprus, Ariel Klavaris, to the lab!
July 15th: Our postdoctoral scientist, Anthony, was awarded an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship! Congratulations!
May 26th: We welcome Cem Ozdemir to the lab as our newest CMB graduate student!
May 23rd: Congratulations to Doo, who has received the 2022-2023 Willian Shive Fellowship from the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Program at UT Austin!
May 16th: We welcome our new research technician Shihchun Wang to the lab!
April 28th: A new review from Anthony, Dr. Bethany Buck-Koehntop and Kyle on PARP and KDM5A, "Joining the PARty: PARP Regulation of KDM5A during DNA Repair (and Transcription?)" was just accepted for publication in BioEssays. Congrats!
April 22nd: Congratulations to Riya who presented her research project in the CNS Undergraduate Research Forum!
April 4th: Congratulations to Doo who received a University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Summer 2022 Fellowship! Great job and well deserved!
March 30th: Congratulations to Riya who was awarded a College of Natural Sciences 2022 Second Year Excellence Award for her achievements in academic excellence and research. Keep up the great work!
March 21st: A new review from the lab, "Histone H2A variants: Diversifying chromatin to ensure genome integrity" that was co-authored by Philipp Oberdoerffer (Johns Hopkins University) and Kyle has just been published in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology.
February 21st: Doo’s paper entitled "ZMYM2 restricts 53BP1 at DNA double-strand breaks to favor BRCA1 loading and homologous recombination” has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to Doo, as well as Joi (CMB rotation student), and our other collaborators from the Luijsterburg and Leung labs.
News 2021
November 15th: Cem Ozdemir and Hyunji Lee join the lab for their second 2021 CMB rotation! Welcome to the lab!
September 10th: The lab turns 10, unbelievable! It has been an amazing experience to work with all the students, postdocs and staff who have all contributed to the establishment and success of the lab. Thank you!!!
September 7th: We welcome Noah Kahan to the lab as the new lab manager!
August 30th: Congratulations to Anthony, Doo and Daein whose invited review article has now been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Genetics. It will be part of a special issue on DSB repair pathway choice. Great job!
August 30th: Hsin-Ru "Joi" Chan joins the lab for her Fall 2021 CMB rotation! Welcome to UT, Austin and the lab!
August 25th: We welcome Jullian Perren to the lab as a first year CMB graduate student! News about the new lab manager coming soon!
August 10th: Dr. Jaejin Kim is now an Assistant Professor at Hallym University, South Korea in the Department of Life Sciences. Congratulations and we wish you all success for your independent research career!
July 13th: Kim and Seoyun’s invited review has now been accepted for publication in Experimental and Molecular Medicine.
June 7th: The lab welcomes Hadis Askari! She is a fellow of the Livestrong Cancer Institute's Summer Undergraduate Research program.
April 5th: Ram, Anthony and Jullian's paper, "Poly(ADP-ribose)-binding and macroH2A mediate recruitment and functions of KDM5A at DNA lesions", has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cell Biology. Congratulations!
April 5th: Congratulations to Daein and Kim, who are co-authors on a collaborative work, "DNMT1 reads heterochromatic H4K20me3 to reinforce DNA methylation of transposons", with the Gang Greg Wang (UNC) and Jikui Song (UC Riverside) labs that is now In Press in Nature Communications!
March 22nd: The Miller lab welcomes Cecilia Fitzgerald-Cook and Lee Kendall to the lab for their Spring CMB rotation.
February 1st: The lab welcomes Manal Boti El Hassani to the lab as a new undergraduate lab assistant.
January 28th: Angela Ge, an undergraduate student in biomedical engineering, joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome!
January 5th: Seoyun and Kim have returned home to South Korea. We wish them all the best!
News 2020
November 9th: A new invited review from the lab entitled "Emerging Roles of RNA Modifications in Genome Integrity” has now been accepted for publication in Briefings in Functional Genomics. Congratulations Seoyun and Kim!
October 23rd: Today is Anusha's last day in the Miller lab and we wish her all the best in her new endeavors! The lab had a proper sending off with a socially-distanced kayaking outing on Lady Bird Lake in Austin.
September 22nd: Our paper entitled “PCAF-Mediated Histone Acetylation Promotes Replication Fork Degradation by MRE11 and EXO1 in BRCA-Deficient Cells” is now published online at Molecular Cell.
Please see the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin press release about this article here.
Please see the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin press release about this article here.
September 1st: The Miller Lab welcomes a new Postdoctoral Scientist, Anthony Sanchez, to the lab.
August 26th: Kim and Seoyun’s paper has been accepted for publication in Molecular Cell. Congratulations!
July 29th: Congratulations to Anusha and Kyle, as well as Turja and Blerta from the Xhemalce lab, for the acceptance of their review in Essays in Biochemistry.
July 16th: A new collaborative paper titled "Direct readout of heterochromatic H3K9me3 regulates DNMT1-mediated maintenance DNA methylation" has been published in PNAS. Congratulations to Kim, Kyle and all of the authors!
June 5th: The Miller lab congratulates Haity for graduating from UT this Spring. We wish her all the best in the future!
June 1st: The Miller lab has been re-opened at a reduced capacity.
March 23rd: The Miller lab is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. We hope to reopen and return to our work as soon as we can safely. Take care all.
March 2nd: Congratulations to Haity for being selected as a recipient of the Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the proposal, "Identification of ZNF219 as a novel DNA damage response factor in human cells." Way to go!
News 2019
November 11th: The Miller lab welcomes Haojian Li to the lab for his Winter CMB rotation.
October 28th: We congratulate Kim and Seoyun for the acceptance of their paper in Genes & Development!
September 3rd: Kyle is awarded the Lorene Morrow Kelley Professorship.
September 3rd: The Miller lab welcomes Trevor Freeman to the lab for his Fall CMB rotation.
July 18th: The collaborative review article “Non-canonical DNA/RNA structures during Transcription-Coupled Double-Strand Break Repair: Roadblocks or Bona fide repair intermediates?” by Kyle and Gaëlle Legube is now available online in a special issue of DNA Repair. Congrats!!
June 5th: The review article from the lab on histone modifications and DNA double-strand break repair is now available online in Critical Reviews in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Congratulations to Kim, Seoyun, and Kyle!
June 3rd: The lab welcomes Neftali Vazquez, our new rotation student.
May 30th: A new methods paper from the lab has been published in DNA Repair - Methods in Molecular Biology. Congrats to Kim, Ram and all of the other authors!
May 15th: The review article "Preserving Genome Integrity and Function: The DNA Damage Response and Histone Modifications" has been accepted for publication in Critical Reviews in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Congratulations to Kim, Seoyun, and Kyle!
April 1st: We welcome Emilie Mylne to the Miller lab.
March 6th: Congratulations to Doo for passing his prelim qualifying exam to officially becoming a PhD candidate!
February 1st: The Miller Lab welcomes a new Postdoctoral Scientist, Anusha Sriraman, to the lab.
January 10th: A new collaborative paper from the lab working with the Rosenberg and Herman labs from Baylor College of Medicine has been published today in Cell. This work identifies a bacteria-to-human network of proteins that influence endogenous sources of DNA damage and mutations, with implications of their roles in cancer. Congratulations to Liya who is co-first author on the paper and to everyone else who was involved. Great work!
Press: CNS at UT Austin
Baylor College of Medicine
The Scientist
Nature Reviews Genetics
Press: CNS at UT Austin
Baylor College of Medicine
The Scientist
Nature Reviews Genetics
January 8th: A new collaborative paper from the lab on DNA double-strand break repair has been published in Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
January 7th: A new review on cellular assays of DNA repair pathways has just been published in Microbial Cell.
News 2018
December 7th: A new collaborative paper working with the Paull lab at UT Austin on R-loop processing has now been published in eLife.
October 26th: A new collaborative paper on tumor death and mitochondrial dysfunction has been published in Communications Biology.
October 22nd: A new collaborative paper on KDM5A has been published in iScience. Congrats to Ram who contributed to the study as co-author!
September 31st: The lab wishes Li-Ya farewell as she leaves the lab to start a industry position at EMD-Merck in Boston. We all wish you great success in your future!
September 14th: A new collaborative paper with the Rosenberg lab at Baylor College of Medicine on DNA Damage labeling has been published in DNA Repair.
September 4th: The lab welcomes Kelvin Zhou, our new undergraduate research assistant.
August 27th: The lab welcomes our new Postdoctoral Scientist, Seoyun Lee.
August 6th: The methods paper from the lab, "CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing of Human Histone H2A Variant H2AX and MacroH2A" is now out in Methods in Molecular Biology. Congratulations to all authors.
June 22nd: The lab wishes Poonam farewell as she leaves the lab to start her postdoc at Stanford. You'll be missed, but we all wish you success in your new city and research position.
May 7th: The Miller lab welcomes our new graduate student Doohyung Lee to the lab.
April 19th: Congratulations to Li-Ya for successfully defending her thesis and becoming Dr. Chiu! The lab wishes you the best of luck on all of your future endeavors!
April 9th: The Miller lab welcomes postdoctoral scientist Daein Kim to the lab.
February 9th: Kyle has become an Advisory Editorial Board member to Life Science Alliance, a new journal that is a partnership between EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
February 6th: Gong and Miller's perspective "Doubly duty: ZMYND8 in the DNA damage response and cancer" has been published in Cell Cycle.
January 20th: A collaborative review by the Denchi and Miller labs on zinc finger proteins and the DDR has now been published in Trends in Genetics. Happy to see a publication for 2018 already!
News 2017
December 14th: We congratulate Justin on his new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. We wish you all the success in your new independent faculty position.
November 22nd: The lab congratulates Li-Ya for receiving a University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship for Spring 2018! Way to go Li-Ya!
November 7th: Congratulations to Poonam for successfully defending her thesis and becoming the second graduate student to obtain her PhD from the Miller lab. Bravo Dr. Agarwal!!! We all wish you the best and may success always be with you!
September 27th: The review article "Histone methylation and the DNA damage response" has been published in Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research. Congratulations Fade and Kyle!
September 1st: Our perspective "Doubly duty: ZMYND8 in the DNA damage response and cancer" by Gong and Miller has been accepted today for publication in Cell Cycle.
September 1st: Kyle is officially promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor.
September 1st: The lab welcomes the postdoctoral fellow Fan Tu to the lab.
August 30th: The lab welcomes the postdoctoral fellow Jaejin Kim to the lab.
August 28th: The lab welcomes Hung-Che "Jami" Kuo, our new rotation student to the lab.
September 1st: The lab welcomes the postdoctoral fellow Fan Tu to the lab.
August 30th: The lab welcomes the postdoctoral fellow Jaejin Kim to the lab.
August 28th: The lab welcomes Hung-Che "Jami" Kuo, our new rotation student to the lab.
August 14th: The lab welcomes Mijeong Kim, our new rotation student to the lab.
August 11th: The lab wishes Fade farewell as he leaves the lab to join Trey Westbrook's lab at Baylor College of Medicine for his postdoc. You'll be missed but we all wish you success in your new city and research position.
July 19th: Kyle becomes a member of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institute, Dell Medical School (https://dellmed.utexas.edu/livestrong-cancer-institutes).
June 15th: Congratulations Li-Ya for winning Best Presentation for our department's RNA and DNA Club!
June 12th: The Miller lab would like to welcome our new Postdoctoral Scientist Jeffrey Dick to the lab.
June 1st: The Miller lab would like to welcome our new rotation student Lilly Schmaltz to the lab.
June 1st: Fade's paper on KDM5A and the DDR is published today in Journal of Cell Biology. The paper has been highlighted with a Spotlight article in the same issue. Congrats again!
May 5th: Poonam's collaborative paper with the Xhemalce lab and Rodriguez lab, "Chromatin Regulates Genome Targeting with Cisplatin" is now out in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Poonam!
May 4th: The Miller lab would like to welcome our new graduate student Caroline Kate Vilas to the lab.
April 21st: We all congratulate Poonam for being awarded a Graduate School Summer 2017 Fellowship!
April 17th: The Miller lab would like to welcome Coco Chu, high school volunteer researcher from St. Stephens.
April 11th: Congratulations to Poonam for the publication of her collaborative paper with the Xhemalce lab (UT Austin) and Rodriguez lab (Curie Institute) in Angewandte Chemie!
April 6th: Congratulations to Fade for the publication of his paper in Journal of Cell Biology!
April 3rd: The Miller lab would like to welcome Pauline Clément, visiting masters student from Université Paris Diderot.
March 17th: Congratulations to Fade and Li-Ya for the acceptance of their review for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B!
February 27th: The paper from the lab, "ZMYM3 regulates BRCA1 localization at damaged chromatin to promote DNA repair" is now out in Genes & Development. Congratulations Justin, Kyle, Liya, and Poonam!
February 20th: The Miller lab would like to welcome the lab's new Postdoctoral Scientist, Ramhari Kumbhar.
January 30th: Congratulations to Justin and Kyle, as well as co-authors Liya and Poonam, for the acceptance of their paper for publication in Genes & Development. Great way to kick off 2017!
News 2016
December 28th: Congratulations to Justin who was awarded a very competitive NIH Career Transition K22 Award!
December 16th: Party time! The lab celebrates the news of Kyle's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. Fantastic news!
November 14th: The Miller lab would like to welcome the lab's new rotation student, May Wen.
October 27th: The book chapter "Chromatin Dynamics and DNA Repair" by Poonam and Kyle has been published in Chromatin Regulation and Dynamics. Congratulations!
September 30th: The lab says farewell to Mercedes properly with a lunch at her favorite Chinese restaurant, Ho Ho. We thank Mercedes for managing the lab since 2012 and wish her all the best as she heads West to Oregon.
September 19th: The review article "Acetylation reader proteins: linking acetylation signaling to genome maintenance and cancer" is now available online at PLOS Genetics.
September 6th: The Miller lab would like to welcome the labs new rotation students, Caroline Vilas and Zhao Chen.
August 1st: Congratulations to Fade for successfully defending his thesis and becoming the first graduate student to obtain their PhD from the Miller lab. Way to go Dr. Gong!!! We all wish you the best for your future endeavors.
August 1st: The review article "Acetylation reader proteins: linking acetylation signaling to genome maintenance and cancer" has been accepted for publication in PLOS Genetics. Congratulations Fade, Liya and Kyle!
June 9th: The lab currently has several postdoc positions available to study chromatin, the DNA damage response and cancer. Please email Dr Miller for more information.
April 22nd: Congratulations to Poonam Agarwal for receiving the 2016 Joseph F. Short Memorial Endowed Scholarship by the College of Natural Sciences to promote her professional development as a graduate student.
April 14th: The review article "The Nucleosome: Orchestrating DNA Damage Signaling and Repair within Chromatin" by Poonam and Kyle is now available online at Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Congratulations!
March 26th: The article "Chronic oxidative stress promotes H2AX protein degradation and enhances chemosensitivity in breast cancer patients" in collaboration with Mechta-Grigoriou lab at the The Curie institute is now available online at EMBO Molecular Medicine. Congratulations Kyle!
February 16th: Congratulations Fade and Kyle for their co-authored collaborative paper with the Paull and Finkelstein labs,
"Single-molecule imaging reveals the mechanism of Exo1 regulation by single-stranded DNA binding proteins", which came out today in PNAS.
"Single-molecule imaging reveals the mechanism of Exo1 regulation by single-stranded DNA binding proteins", which came out today in PNAS.
News 2015
December 1st: 5th yr ICMB graduate student Fade Gong was awarded the Spring 2016 Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship. Congratulations Fade!!!
October 27th: Congratulations Justin, Poonam and Kyle for their co-authored collaborative paper with Jon Huibregtse's lab,
"Ubiquitin‐Activated Interaction Traps (UBAITs) identify E3 ligase binding partners", which is now out in EMBO Reports.
"Ubiquitin‐Activated Interaction Traps (UBAITs) identify E3 ligase binding partners", which is now out in EMBO Reports.
Sepember 1st: The Miller lab would like to welcome a new work study, Oshadi Wimalarathne, to the lab.
August 25th: The Miller lab would like to welcome our new Research Assistant, Anushri Kushwaha, to the lab!!
July 17th: Miller lab congratulates to Li-Ya Chui for being awarded a Professional Development Award from the Office of Graduates Studies at UT for her attendance at the 2015 FASEB conference of Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements.
June 19th: The lab congratulates Fade Gong for being awarded with the second prize for best presentation at the RNA and DNA club 2014-2015.
May 31st: Congratulations to Wei-Ta and everyone involved for their paper "ATM regulation of IL-8 links oxidative stress to cancer cell migration and invasion", which has been accepted for publication in eLIfe.
May 22nd: The Miller lab congratulates Emily for graduating UT, well done! We thank her for all her help as an undergraduate in the lab and we wish her all the best in medical school.
May 15th: The lab congratulates Fade Gong for being awarded a Professional Development Award from the Office of Graduates Studies at UT for his attendance at the 2015 GRS conference of Mammalian DNA Repair.
April 30th: Li-Ya and Poonam have passed their Part II qualifying exams and are now officially PhD candidates in the CMB program. Congratulations!!!
March 18th: Fade Gong has been awarded a Continuing Bruton Fellowship from the graduate studies at UT Austin. Bruton Fellows represent a select group of graduate students at UT Austin that have exhibited excellence during their graduate studies. Congratulations!!!
February 16th: The Miller lab would like to welcome Samantha Chang and Nadima Uprety, our new rotation students.
February 2nd: Congratulations Fade and Kyle for their co-authored collaborative paper with the Denchi (Scripps) and Sfeir labs (NYU), " Mammalian polymerase θ promotes alternative NHEJ and suppresses recombination", which is now out in Nature.
Highlighted in News and Views: "DNA repair: Familiar ends with alternative endings" by Cho and Greenberg.
Highlighted in News and Views: "DNA repair: Familiar ends with alternative endings" by Cho and Greenberg.
January 29th: Miller lab is in the news!! W.M. Keck Foundation grant awarded to Susan Rosenberg (BCM) with collaboration from the Miller lab that allows for the development of “freeze-frame” proteins to study DNA intermediates in cells.
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January 19th: The Miller lab would like to welcome a new undergraduate student, Faun Rowland, to the lab.
January 15th: The paper from the lab, "Screen identifies bromodomain protein ZMYND8 in chromatin recognition of transcription-associated DNA damage that promotes homologous recombination" is now out in Genes & Development.
News 2014
December 5th: Congratulations to Fade Gong and Liya
Chiu, as well as everyone else involved in the project, for the acceptance of
their manuscript in Genes & Development. Fantastic news!!!
November 21th: Poonam Agarwal is awarded a Lois Sager Foxhall Memorial Fund Travel Award and will present her work in a talk at the 2015 GRS meeting on Mammalian DNA Repair. Congratulations Poonam!!!
October 15th: The Miller lab would like to welcome Manos Zacharioudakis,visiting graduate student from the lab of Dr. Rodriguez. (France).
October 14th: The review article "Unravelling the genomic targets of small molecules using high-throughput sequencing" by Raf and Kyle is now available online at Nature Reviews Genetics. Congratulations!
August 24th:
A review article from Raphael Rodriguez
(Curie Institute, Paris) and Kyle has now been accepted for publication in Nature
Reviews Genetics.
July 29th: Kyle is awarded an adjunct member position in the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine in the program of Cancer Evolvability.
July 10th: Miller lab congratulates Justin for being awarded the best poster at the Genomic Instability Gordon Research Conference on Genomic Instability, Mechanisms that Cause DNA damage and Related Diseases, Hong Kong, China.
June 20th: Our post doc Justin Leung has been chosen to receive a postdoctoral traineeship and to take part in the University of Texas Cancer Research Training Program led by Drs. Jonathan Sessler and John DiGiovanni. This program is funded by the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Congratulations Justin!!!
June 3rd: The Miller lab congratulates Poonam for winning 2nd place for best poster award at this year's first annual Molecular Biosciences Retreat.
June 2nd: The Miller lab would like to welcome Alfred M Lentzsch, our new rotation student.
May 19th: Li-Ya passes her Part I qualifying exam. Congratulations!!!
May 6th: Quote of the Day "As a guide to success as a scientist, I suggest 4 things. 1. Work hard, 2. Be original, 3. Be persistent and 4. Be good and kind to others." Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.
April 15th: Fade has passed his Part II qualifying exam and is now officially a PhD candidate in the CMB program. Congratulations!!!
April 10th: Wei-Ta has passed his Part II qualifying exam and is now officially a PhD candidate in the CMB program. Congratulations!!!
April 1st: Poonam passes her Part I qualifying exam. Congratulations!!!
March 31st: The Miller lab would like to welcome Renaud Pourpre to the lab. Renaud is visiting the lab from Paris, France for 5 months as part of his masters training from the Magistère Européen de Génétique program. Bienvenue!
March 25th: A co-authored paper from Kyle has just been published in Nature Structural Molecular Biology (link) .
March 6th: The new paper from the Miller lab is now out in PLOS Genetics (link) .
February 17th: The Miller lab would like to welcome Lance Lepovitz, our new rotation student.
News 2013
December 31st: Congratulations to co-first authors Justin and Poonam, as well as co-author Fade, for the acceptance of their paper in PLOS Genetics.
Great way to finish the year!!!
Great way to finish the year!!!
October 31st: The eLife paper is in the news with an article in Bio News Texas highlighting the work (link) & in another article in Baylor College of Medicine News (link).
October 29th: An Insight article that highlights the eLIfe paper has also now been published in eLife. Proteins pinpoint double strand breaks by Michael M Cox (2013) eLife.
October 29th: A collaborative project with Dr. Reuben Harris (University of Minnesota) and Dr. Susan Rosenberg (Baylor College of Medicine) has now been published in eLife. Congratulations to former member Ben Cox and Liya Chiu who are co-authors on the paper! (link).
July: A cover image associated with Wei-Ta's MCB paper has been chosen as the journal cover for Molecular and Cellular Biology in September.
July: A review article from Fade and Kyle entitled "Mammalian DNA repair: HATs and HDACs make their mark through histone acetylation" has been accepted for publication in Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis.
July: The lab would like to wish Ben Cox all the best as he heads East to attend Duke University for graduate school
April: We congratulate Fade and Wei-Ta for passing their Part I exams