Mark A. Miller

Mark A. Miller

Principal Investigator, Biology

San Diego Supercomputer Center

La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

Tel: 858-822-0866

Fax: 858-822-0866

Email: mmiller@sdsc.edu

Research Program:
My research effort is called Next Generation Tools for Biology. Its focus is on creating enabling software tools and infrastructure for Biology and Biomedical Applications. I have crafted a program to take advantage of the unique character of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, by initiating projects that combine emerging techniques from computer science and biology research communities with best practices in software development. The goal is to create end-to-end solutions that link educators and scientists to high end data and computational resources without requiring them to know PERL or SQL.

Bibliographic Information:
I received my BS in Biology from Eckerd College in 1976, and my PhD in Biochemistry under Claudia Kent from Purdue in 1984. I came to UCSD for a postdoctoral stint with Joe Kraut, followed by brief visit to the private side at Monsanto/Kelco. I came to SDSC to launch the Joint Center for Structural Genomics with John Wooley and Adam Godzik to see if the work of an entire PhD in 1984 could be compressed into a day by the year 2005. Over the course of my career I have sampled from many areas of Biology, including eukayotic cell biology, steady state and transient kinetics, crystallography to metabolic engineering; on research areas including phospholipid and steroid metabolism, heme enzyme structure:function and spectroscopy. My current goal is to see if all of the biology knowledge accrued by 2005 can be doubled in 1 day before I retire.

Publications:
My publications are listed here.