Rate My Professor Chris Miller

Miller's research focuses on developing and applying bioinformatic and genome-enabled approaches to study the systems-level complexity of microbial communities using deep sequencing of environmental DNA and RNA. His work addresses microbial processes in environmental remediation, bioenergy production, methane cycling in wetlands, river microbiomes, and human health. He has obtained major funding including multiple DOE Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program awards (e.g., 2015, 2018), a top-ranked DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory proposal (2015, $136,061 in-kind), NSF DEB 1701970 ($20,215, 2017), a U.S. Department of Energy grant of $1,049,639 (2020) for filling gaps in omics data translation to models, and a CU Presidential Initiative Grant (2020) for mechanistic understanding of microbial remediation at a Denver Superfund site. His highly cited publications include 'The database of interacting proteins: 2004 update' (Nucleic Acids Research, 2004; 2,681 citations), 'Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla' (Science, 2012; 715 citations), 'EMIRGE: reconstruction of full-length ribosomal genes from microbial community short read sequencing data' (Genome Biology, 2011; 418 citations), and 'Methanogenesis in oxygenated soils is a substantial fraction of wetland methane emissions' (Nature Communications, 2017; 345 citations). Miller teaches courses such as General Biology I, Introduction to Biotechnology, Genomics and Bioinformatics, and Topics in Integrative and Systems Biology.