4510A Gardner Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
919.515.2391 (main office)
919.515.7230 (lab)
919.515.7867 (fax)
eric_miller@ncsu.edu
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Eric S. Miller
Professor and Interim Department Head
Biography
Dr. Eric Miller was born in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, but moved at age three to San Diego, California. His formative environment in suburban San Diego (among the coyotes, rattlesnakes, and roadrunners) probably led to Eric's interest in biology. Eric received his B.A. in Microbiology from California State University, Chico where he did research surveying birds for blood-borne parasites and had an external learning experience at the National Institutes of Health conducting research in bacterial genetics (working with Loretta Leive and Bill Coleman). In 1977 Eric joined the microbial genetics and physiology graduate program at Purdue University. He then spent five years using genetics to study the enzymes of ammonia assimilation in Salmonella typhimurium, under the mentorship of Jean Brenchley. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 1982, Eric held an NIH post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado, Boulder. There, working in Larry Gold's group, he used bacteriophage T4 to study translational control of gene expression. In 1987, Eric made a ten month visit to Sydney Brenner's lab in Cambridge, England sponsored by National Science Foundation and EMBO Fellowships, before joining the Department of Microbiology at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor. His currently funded research is focused on the isolation of RNA aptamers for microbial diagnostics, studies on the RNA-protein interactions of translational repressors from T4-like phages, and genomic analysis of the T4-like vibriophage KVP40. When not doing science, Eric's healthy diversions with his family include sailing, camping, running, skiing, gardening and keeping up with the kid's soccer exploits. As much as the challenge of science and fun of discovery, Eric values the interactions with his mentors, colleagues and students he has known through microbiology. Did he mention his wife? |
