Network Member Profile
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Professor David Miller
Department:
Comparative Genomics Centre
Organisation:
James Cook University
Address:
Molecular Sciences Bldg 21, Townsville QLD 4811
Telephone: 07 4781 4473 Facsimile:
07 4781 6078
Email: david.miller@jcu.edu.au
Web
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Current Field of Study
- Genomics of cnidarians
- Developmental biology of cnidarians
- Evolutionary genetics of corals
Australian Collaborators
- Prof Robert Saint (ANU, Canberra, ACT)
- Dr Eldon Ball (ANU, Canberra, ACT)
- Dr Madeleine van Oppen (AIMS, Townsville, Qld)
- Prof David Jans (Monash University, Melbourne, Vic)
International Collaborators
- Walter Gehring (Basel)
- Heinrich Reichert (Basel)
- Gerd Technau (Mainz)
- Uli Technau (Darmstadt)
Facilities
- Quantitative PCR facilities (Corbett RotorGene and ABI 7700)
- Confocal microscope (BioRad Radiance 2000)
Lab Members
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Prof David Miller
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Head of the Lab
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Mr Francois Seneca
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PhD Student
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Dr Danielle de Jong
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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| Ms Lubna Ukani |
Research Assistant |
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Ms Lucija Tomljenovic
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PhD Student
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Mr Alejandro Reyes
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PhD Student
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Mr Victor Beltran
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PhD Student
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Mr Chuya Shinzato
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PhD Student
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Ms Zoe Richards
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PhD Student
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Mr Akira Iguchi
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PhD Student
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Recent Grant Income
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Description
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CIs
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Type of Grant
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Year
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Income p.a.
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| Evolution of nervous system patterning
processes: characterization of homologs of key Drosophila regulatory genes
from the coral Acropora. |
Miller |
ARC Discovery grant |
2002-2004 |
$65,000 |
| BAC and YAC libraries for exploring metazoan
origins. |
Steele, Carroll, de Jong, Miller and Technau |
NSF Project grant |
2002 |
$US 66,000 |
| Centrifugation facilities for the genetics
analysis facility |
Burnell, Vasudevan, Miller and van Oppen |
ARC LIEF grant |
2002 |
$100,000 |
| Differential expression and functional
analysis of genes controlling metamorphosis and early neurogenesis of a
model lower animal, the coral Acropora. |
Ball and Miller |
ARC Discovery Grant |
2003-2005 |
$70,000 |
| Enhanced genetic analysis facilities at
James Cook University |
Miller, Warren, Crozier, Baxter, Bellwood, van Oppen, Gadek,
Blair, Vasudevan and Burnell |
ARC LIEF grant |
2003 |
$280,000 |
Recent Publications
Ball EE, Hayward DC, Saint
R and Miller DJ (2004) A simple plan; cnidarians and the origins of developmental
mechanisms. Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 567-577
Jolodar A, Fischer P, Büttner DW, Miller DJ, Schmetz C and Brattig NW
(2004) Characterization of a nematode cathepsin D-like lysosomal aspartic protease
of the human filarial Onchocerca volvulis. Experimental Parasitology 107, 145-156
Hayward DC, Miller DJ and Ball EE (2004) Snail expression during embryonic
development of the coral Acropora: Blurring the triploblast / triploblast divide?
Development Genes and Evolution 214, 257-260
MacKenzie JB, Munday PL, Willis BL, Miller DJ and van Oppen MJH (2004) Unexpected
patterns of genetic structuring among locations but not colour morphs in Acropora
nasuta (Cnidaria; Scleractinia). Molecular Ecology 13, 9-20
Kortschak RD, Samuel G, Saint R and Miller DJ. EST analysis of the cnidarian,
Acropora millepora, reveals extensive gene loss and rapid sequence
divergence in the model invertebrates. In press to: Current Biology (October
2003)
MacKenzie JB, Munday PL, Willis
BL, Miller DJ and van Oppen MJH. Unexpected patterns of genetic structuring
among locations but not colour morphs in Acropora nasuta (Cnidaria;
Scleractinia). In press to: Molecular Ecology (September 2003)
Plaza S, de Jong D, Gehring WJ and Miller DJ (2003) DNA-binding characteristics
of cnidarian Pax-C and Pax-B proteins in vivo and in vitro:
no simple relationship with the Pax-6 and Pax-2/5/8 classes. Molecular and Developmental
Evolution 299B, 26-35
Nordström K, Scholten I,
Nordström J, Larhammar D and Miller D. (2003) Mutational analysis of the
Acropora millepora PaxD paired domain highlights the importance of
the linker region for DNA binding. Gene 320C , 81-87
Márquez LM, Miller DJ, MacKenzie JB and van Oppen MJH (2003) Pseudogenes
contribute to the extreme diversity of nuclear ribosomal DNA in the hard coral
Acropora. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 1077-1086
Miller DJ and van Oppen MJH (2003) A ‘fair go’ for coral hybridization.
Molecular Ecology 12, 805-807
Miller SW, Hayward DC, Bunch TA, Miller DJ, Ball EE, Bardwell VJ, Zarkower
D and Brower DL (2003) A DM domain protein from the coral, Acropora millepora,
homologous to proteins important for sex determination. Evolution and Development
5, 251-258
Hayward DC, Samuel G, Pontynen PC, Catmull J, Saint RB, Miller DJ and Ball
EE (2002) Localized expression of a DPP/BMP2-4 ortholog in a coral embryo. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99, 8106-8111
Ball EE, Hayward DC, Reece-Hoyes JS, Hislop NR, Samuel G, Saint R, Harrison
PL and Miller DJ (2002) Coral development: from classical embryology to molecular
control. International Journal for Developmental Biology 46, 671-678
van Oppen MJH, Willis BL, van
Rheede T and Miller DJ (2002) Spawning times, reproductive compatibilities and
genetic structuring in the Acropora aspera group: evidence for natural
hybridisation and semi-permeable species boundaries in corals. Molecular Ecology
11, 1363-1376.
Márquez LM, van Oppen MJH, Willis BL and Miller DJ (2002) Sympatric
populations of the highly cross-fertile coral species Acroporahyacinthus
and A. cytherea are genetically distinct. Proceedings of the Royal
Society, Series B 269, 1289-1294.
Márquez LM, van Oppen MJH, Willis BL, Reyes A and Miller DJ (2002)
The highly cross-fertile coral species, Acropora hyacinthus and A.cytherea,
constitute statistically distinguishable lineages. Molecular Ecology 11, 1339-1349.
van Oppen MJH, Catmull J, McDonald BJ, Hislop NR, Hagerman PJ and Miller DJ
(2002) The mitochondrial genome of Acropora tenuis (Cnidaria; Scleractinia)
contains a large group I intron and a candidate control region. The Journal
of Molecular Evolution 55, 1-13.
Jolodar A and Miller DJ (2002) Construction and expression of aspartic protease
from Onchocerca volvulus as OmpA fusion protein in a mutant strain
of Salmonella typhimurium. Genetics and Molecular Biology 25, 97-101.
van Oppen MJH, Palstra FP, Piquet A M-T and Miller DJ (2001) Patterns of coral-dinoflagellate
associations in Acropora: significance of local availability and physiology
of Symbiodinium strains and host-symbiont selectivity. Proceedings
of the Royal Society, Series B 268, 1-9.
van Oppen MJH, McDonald BJ, Willis B and Miller DJ (2001) The evolutionary
history of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) based
on a mitochondrial and a nuclear marker: reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting
or morphological convergence? Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 1315-1329.
Samuel G, Miller DJ and Saint RB (2001) Conservation of a DPP/BMP signalling
pathway in the non-bilateral cnidarian, Acropora millepora. Evolution
and Development 3, 241-250.
Hayward, DC, Catmull J, Reece-Hoyes JS, Berghammer H, Dodd H, Hann SJ, Miller
DJ and Ball EE (2001) Gene structure and larval expression of cnox2Am
from the coral Acropora millepora. Development Genes and Evolution
211, 10-19.
van Oppen, M.J.H., Willis, B.L., van Vugt, H.J.A. and Miller, D.J. (2000)
Examination of species boundaries in the Acropora cervicornis group
(Scleractinia, Cnidaria) using nuclear DNA sequence analyses. Molecular Ecology
9, 1363-1373.
Miller, D.J., Hayward, D.C., Reece-Hoyes, J., Scholten, I, Catmull, J., Gehring,
W.J., Larsen, J.E. and Ball, E.E. (2000) Pax gene diversity in the
basal cnidarian Acropora millepora (Cnidaria; Anthozoa): Implications
for the evolution of the Pax gene family.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97, 4475-4480.
Chen, C.A., Miller, D.J., Wei, N.V., Dai, C.-F. and Yang, H.-P. (2000) The
ETS/IGS region in a lower animal, the sea whip, Junceella fragilis
(Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Octocorallia) : compactness, low variation and apparent
conservation of a pre-rRNA processing signal with fungi. Zoological Studies
39, 138-143.
Miller, D.J. and Ball, E.E. (2000) The coral Acropora: what it can
contribute to our knowledge of metazoan evolution and the evolution of developmental
processes. BioEssays 22, 291-296.
Galliot, B. and Miller, D. (2000) Origin of apical patterning: How old is our
head? Trends in Genetics 16, 1-5.
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