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Hello, and welcome to the\u00a0Miller Lab website! We work in the Department of Biochemistry<\/a> at the University of Washington<\/a> School of Medicine<\/a>. We are broadly interested in understanding how animals sense and adjust to stay alive in environments that are constantly changing. Animals rely on the\u00a0environment: it is the source of essential nutrients (food, oxygen, water) and it\u00a0dictates the general conditions in which we live (temperature, light\/dark cycle). The environment can also be dangerous, as it contains predators and toxins. Our goal is to understand how environmental factors change animal physiology, so that we can devise new strategies to improve survival in conditions associated with disease morbidity and mortality.<\/p>\n

The Miller Lab is passionate about doing great research, and communicating with the public about our\u00a0research\u00a0and science in general. We hope that you will spend some time on our site to \u00a0learn more about our group<\/a> and our research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mighty worm,\u00a0C. elegans<\/em><\/span>
\nThey may be small, but the nematode\u00a0Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em>\u00a0is no lightweight! Two\u00a0Nobel<\/a>\u00a0Prizes<\/a>\u00a0have been awarded for research to understand how these tiny metazoans work. The worm is a favorite model system in the Miller Lab, because of its powerful molecular, cellular, and genetic tools. You can learn more about these awesome little critters at\u00a0Wormbase<\/a>, or read this excellent blog post<\/a> by our very own graduate student Emily.<\/p>\n

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C. elegans<\/em> larvae expressing
\ngreen fluorescent protein (GFP) in M-lineage cells.<\/h4>\n

Micrograph taken by Dana Miller<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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