Office of the Dean

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

Research Profile

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  Yersinia enterocolitica

  
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  Virulence

  
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  Bacterial Proteins

  
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  Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial

  
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  Yersinia Infections

  
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  Genes, Bacterial

  
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  Yersinia

  
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  Mice, Inbred BALB C

  
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  Molecular Sequence Data

  
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  Yersinia pestis

  

Publications

• 1.

  2012

  Jonathan D. Lenz; Brenda R.S. Temple; Virginia L. Miller

  Evolution and virulence contributions of the autotransporter proteins yapj and yapk of Yersinia pestis CO92 and their homologs in Y. pseudotuberculosis IP32953

  Infection and Immunity. 2012;80(10):3693-3705.

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  2012

  Markus W. Obrist; Virginia L. Miller

  Low copy expression vectors for use in Yersinia sp. and related organisms

  Plasmid. 2012;68(1):33-42.

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  2012

  Rodrigo J. Gonzalez; Eric H. Weening; Richard Frothingham; Gregory D. Sempowski; Virginia L. Miller

  Bioluminescence imaging to track bacterial dissemination of Yersinia pestis using different routes of infection in mice

  BMC Microbiology. 2012;12.

Grants

• 1.

  Virginia Miller

  Factors Affecting Dissemination Events Early in Bubonic Plague

  1/15/2013 - 12/31/2014

  Sponsor: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

  Funding: $ 0

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  Virginia Miller

  Science Educator Certificate Program

  7/1/2012 - 6/30/2013

  Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund

  Funding: $ 0

• 3.

  Jonathan Hansen; Christian Jobin; Virginia Miller; Ryan Sartor

  Bacterial Stress Responses to Intestinal Inflammation

  5/1/2010 - 4/30/2015

  Sponsor: NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD)

  Funding: $ 0

Journals

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  Publications
• Journal of Bacteriology
  26
• Infection and Immunity
  22
• Molecular Microbiology
  18
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  8
• Trends in Microbiology
  4

Institutional Network

• Internal
  Shared Pub.
• Microbiology and Immunology
  6
• Genetics
  5
• Duke Human Vaccine Institute
  1
• Biochemistry and Biophysics
  1

• External
  Shared Pub.
• Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  47
• University of California, Los Angeles
  21
• Harvard Medical School
  6
• Stanford University
  4
• Washington University in St. Louis
  4
• UC Davis
  4