UMBC An Honors University in Maryland
UMBC Biological Sciences
Stephen Miller
Contact Information
Office: BS 417
Phone: 410-455-3381
Stephen Miller
Associate Professor
Postodoctoral, Washington University, 1999; Ph.D., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991; B.S., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 1984
Selected publications

Nishii, I., and Miller, S.M. (2010) Volvox: simple steps to developmental complexity? Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 13:1-8.
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Nordhues A., Miller S.M., Mühlhaus T., Schroda M. (2010) New insights into the roles of molecular chaperones in Chlamydomonas and Volvox. Int. Rev. Cell Mol. Biol. 285:75-113.
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Miller, S. M. (2010) Volvox, Chlamydomonas, and the Evolution of Multicellularity. Nature Education 3(9):65
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Prochnik SE, Umen J, Nedelcu AM, Hallmann A, Miller SM, Nishii I, Ferris P, Kuo A, Mitros T, Fritz-Laylin LK, Hellsten U, Chapman J, Simakov O, Rensing SA, Terry A, Pangilinan J, Kapitonov V, Jurka J, Salamov A, Shapiro H, Schmutz J, Grimwood J, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Grigoriev IV, Schmitt R, Kirk D, Rokhsar DS. (2010) Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. Science 329(5988):223-6.
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Pappas, V. and Miller, S.M. (2009) Functional analysis of the asymmetric division protein GlsA. Mech. Dev. 126:842-51.
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Duncan L, Nishii I, Harryman A, Buckley S, Howard A, Friedman NR, Miller SM. (2007) The VARL gene family and the evolutionary origins of the master cell-type regulatory gene, regA, in Volvox carteri. J. Mol. Evol. 65:1-11.

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Duncan, L, Nishii, I., Howard, A, Kirk, D., and Miller, S.M.  (2006) Orthologs and paralogs of regA, a master cell-type regulatory gene in Volvox carteri. Curr. Genet. 50:61-72.
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Cheng, Q., Balzer, E., Yoshida, M., Wong, J.C., and Miller, S.M.  (2006)  Effect of histone deactylase inhibitors on tubulin acetylation and development in Volvox carteri.  J. Phycol. 42:417-22.
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Cheng, Q., Hallmann, A., Edwards, L., and Miller, S.M.  (2006)  Characterization of a heat-shock inducible hsp70 gene of the green alga Volvox carteriGene 371:112-120.
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Cheng, Q., Pappas, V., Hallmann, A., and Miller, S.M. (2005)  Hsp70A and GlsA interact as chaperone partners to regulate asymmetric cell division in VolvoxDev. Biol. 286:537-48.
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Cheng, Q., Fowler, R., Tam, L-W., Edwards, L., and Miller, S.M. 2003. The role of GlsA in the evolution of asymmetric cell division in the green alga Volvox carteri. Dev. Genes Evol. 213:328-335.
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Miller, S.M.  2002.  Taming the fierce roller: an “enhanced” understanding of cellular differentiation in Volvox.  Bioessays 24:1-5.
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