Molecular mechanisms of plant viruses
How cells decode the genetic code
Sustainable control of crop diseases and pests
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Recent Publications
- Non-canonical translation in plant RNA viruses
- Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G (eIF4G) coordinates interactions with eIF4A, eIF4B, and eIF4E in binding and translation of the barley yellow dwarf virus 3' cap-independent translation element (BTE)
- Discovery of known and novel viral genomes in soybean aphid by deep sequencing
- Quantification of Pea enation mosaic virus 1 and 2 during infection of Pisum sativum by one step real-time RT-PCR
Recent News
August 17, 2017
Allen Miller and Steve Whitham, professors of Plant Pathology & Microbiology are part of a multi-institutional team, that was awarded $10.3 million from DARPA. This high-risk program asks researchers to engineer plant viruses to deliver novel genes, via insect vectors of the viruses, that will aid crop plants during times of stress. Read more...
May 19, 2017
Allen Miller had the privilege of speaking at the Timothy Hall Memorial Symposium honoring his PhD advisor. 
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April 25, 2017
The Miller and Whitham labs seek postdocs to engineer insect-transmitted plant viruses as expression vectors. Read more...
April 11, 2017
We ground up soybean aphids from the Midwest and China, Illumina sequenced the RNA, and discovered that aphid viruses are ubiquitous. Ranging from viruses found in other aphids and in honey bees, to plant viruses vectored by the aphid, to viruses representing whole new families, so novel we're not sure if they infect insects or plants! Published in the brand new APS journal: Phytobiomes.
February 8, 2017
Many plant viruses have very specific interactions with aphid vectors, the "mosquitoes" of the plant world, and Juliette Doumayrou and Melissa Sheber found a key to virus entry into its aphid vector. Read more...
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| Dr. Surapathrudu Kanakala | Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 4:23pm |
| Elizabeth J Carino | Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 3:31pm |
| Miller Lab receives grant to engineer aphid-transmitted viruses | Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 4:56pm |
| Timothy Hall Memorial Symposium | Friday, May 19, 2017 - 4:19pm |
| Allen Miller and Steve Whitham inspect construction of their new lab in the ATRB | Friday, April 28, 2017 - 1:52pm |