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Epithelial cell-cell junctions adhere cells to one another and maintain a selectively permeable seal, even as cells undergo major shape changes. Cell-scale (e.g. cytokinesis) and tissue-scale (e.g. morphogenesis) forces drive changes in cell shape that challenge cell-cell junctions. As epithelial cells change shape, they pull on neighboring cells, often causing junctions to elongate, and requiring junction complexes to remodel. Junctions must maintain adhesion and barrier function during such events in order to ensure that cell shape changes do not severely disrupt epithelial tissue function. Adhesion and barrier function are absolutely essential for development and tissue homeostasis, and they are often compromised in diseases including cancer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. However, fundamental questions about how cell-cell junctions dynamically remodel in response to physiological forces that challenge adhesion and barrier function remain unanswered.
Research in the Miller Lab has contributed to our understanding of how adhesion and barrier function are maintained and remodeled during cell shape change events such as cytokinesis. We have identified mechanisms that allow cell-cell junctions to be stable enough to promote cell-cell adhesion and barrier function, but plastic enough to remodel when necessary. We have revealed new information about how Rho GTPase activity is regulated in space and time and how RhoA orchestrates the actin cytoskeletal dynamics responsible for cytokinesis and junction remodeling. Additionally, we have characterized novel roles for key regulators of these processes including Anillin, MgcRacGAP, and Vinculin. Xenopus laevis (frog) embryos form beautifully polarized cell-cell junctions that are well-suited for live quantitative microscopy of junctions and cytoskeletal dynamics. We have generated an extensive molecular toolkit and techniques for investigating localized dynamics of active Rho GTPases, cell-cell junction proteins, and the cytoskeleton in Xenopus. Our lab aims to investivate fundamental mechanisms that regulate epithelial cytokinesis and cell-cell junction remodeling using Xenopus laevis embryos as a vertebrate model system.
Ann Miller earned a B.A. in Biochemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College. She completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Yale University in Tony Koleske’s Lab and her Postdoc in Cell Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Bill Bement’s Lab. Her predoctoral work was funded by an NIH NRSA, and her postdoctoral work was funded by American Cancer Society and Helen Hay Whitney fellowships as well as a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Grant.
Recent Awards: Vice-Chair (2018) / Chair (2022) of the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors Gordon Research Conference, Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award from the University of Michigan College of Literature Science and the Arts (2018), Exceptional Mentor of the Year Award from the University of Michigan Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2017), University of Michigan Biological Sciences Scholar (2010).
Research in the Miller Lab has contributed to our understanding of how adhesion and barrier function are maintained and remodeled during cell shape change events such as cytokinesis. We have identified mechanisms that allow cell-cell junctions to be stable enough to promote cell-cell adhesion and barrier function, but plastic enough to remodel when necessary. We have revealed new information about how Rho GTPase activity is regulated in space and time and how RhoA orchestrates the actin cytoskeletal dynamics responsible for cytokinesis and junction remodeling. Additionally, we have characterized novel roles for key regulators of these processes including Anillin, MgcRacGAP, and Vinculin. Xenopus laevis (frog) embryos form beautifully polarized cell-cell junctions that are well-suited for live quantitative microscopy of junctions and cytoskeletal dynamics. We have generated an extensive molecular toolkit and techniques for investigating localized dynamics of active Rho GTPases, cell-cell junction proteins, and the cytoskeleton in Xenopus. Our lab aims to investivate fundamental mechanisms that regulate epithelial cytokinesis and cell-cell junction remodeling using Xenopus laevis embryos as a vertebrate model system.
Ann Miller earned a B.A. in Biochemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College. She completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Yale University in Tony Koleske’s Lab and her Postdoc in Cell Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Bill Bement’s Lab. Her predoctoral work was funded by an NIH NRSA, and her postdoctoral work was funded by American Cancer Society and Helen Hay Whitney fellowships as well as a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Grant.
Recent Awards: Vice-Chair (2018) / Chair (2022) of the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors Gordon Research Conference, Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award from the University of Michigan College of Literature Science and the Arts (2018), Exceptional Mentor of the Year Award from the University of Michigan Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2017), University of Michigan Biological Sciences Scholar (2010).
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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biologyno. 4 (2024): 333-333
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biologyno. 4 (2024): 290-308
J. Landino,M. Leda, A. Michaud,Z. T. Swider, M. Prom, C. M. Field,W. M. Bement, A. G. Vecchiarelli,A. B. Goryachev,A. L. Miller
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELLno. 2 (2023): 895-896
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bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2023)
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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biologyno. 2 (2023): 546-546
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The Journal of cell biologyno. 4 (2022)
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