Craig Miller

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Faculty URL

http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/millerc.html

Research Group URL

http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/miller/

Contact

ctmiller@berkeley.edu

(510) 642-7840

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Research Expertise and Interest

genetics, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, evolution, quantitative genetics, developmental genetics, evolutionary genetics, craniofacial development

Research Description

We study how pattern forms during development and changes during evolution. We focus on the vertebrate head skeleton, using a genetic approach in the threespine stickleback fish, a species complex that has repeatedly evolved head skeletal adaptations. We seek to understand the genetic basis of craniofacial and dental pattern and how alterations to these genes result in evolved differences in morphology.

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Counting fish teeth reveals DNA changes behind rapid evolution

Threespine sticklebacks undergo rapid evolutionary change when they move from the ocean into freshwater, losing their armor and gaining more teeth in as little as 10 years. UC Berkeley biologist Craig Miller now shows that this rapid change results not from mutations in functional genes, but changes in regulatory DNA. He pinpoints a gene that could be responsible for jaw deformities in humans.

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