Nationality United States Fields Virology, genetics | Name Lois Miller | |
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Born October 8, 1945Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA ( 1945-10-08 ) Institutions University of Wisconsin–Madison (1967–1971), California Institute of Technology and Imperial Cancer Research Fund (1971–1976), University of Idaho (1976–1986), University of Georgia (1986–1999) Thesis A study of two enzymatic activities associated with deoxyribonucleic acid polymerases: I. The exonucleolytic activity of the Micrococcus luteus DNA polymerase; II. Nucleoside diphosphokinase (1971) | ||
Lois Kathryn Miller (October 8, 1945 – November 9, 1999) was an American geneticist and academic. She was a Distinguished Research Professor of Genetics and Entomology at the University of Georgia.
Biography
Miller was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She completed her undergraduate education at Upsala College and a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Joining the faculty at the University of Idaho in 1976, she moved to the University of Georgia ten years later, becoming a Distinguished Research Professor of Genetics and Entomology. Miller focused her research on baculoviruses and programmed cell death. In 1991, her team at the University of Georgia discovered the anti-apoptotic properties of the baculoviral Early 35 kDa protein (P35).
Miller was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1987 and was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She died of melanoma in 1999.