Black and white headshot of Helen Miller

Dr Helen Miller

MPhys (University of Oxford)
and
PhD Physics (University of York)

My Papers

You can find my papers through Google Scholar

  1. January 2024: F. Lauber, J.C. Deme, X. Liu, A. Kjær, H.L. Miller, F. Alcock, S.M. Lea, B.C.Berks, Structural characterization of protein transport by the Type 9 Secretion System, Nature Microbiology, Accepted
  2. December 2023: S.J. Hickman, H. Miller, A. Bukys, A.N. Kapanidis, B.C. Berks, Aberrant Topologies of Bacterial Membrane Proteins Revealed by High Sensitivity Fluorescence Labelling , JMB, (2024), 436, 2, 168368
  3. January 2022: JH. Khoo, H. Miller, J.P. Armitage, Measurement of macromolecular crowding in Rhodobacter sphaeroides mBio, (2022), 13, 1, pages e03672-21
  4. July 2020: J. Cosgrove*, M. Novkovic*, S. Albrecht*, N. Pikor, Z. Zhou, L. Onder, U. Mörbe, H. Miller, K. Alden, A. Thuery, S. Jarrett, E. Taylor, D. Venetz, M. Heller, M. Uguccioni, M. Thelen, D. Legler, A. Coatsworth, T. Cupedo, B. Manoury, J.V. Stein, M. Wolf, M.C. Leake**, J. Timmis,** B. Ludewig**, M.C. Coles**, B-cell Zone Reticular Cell Microenvironments Shape CXCL13 Gradient Formation, Nat. Commun., (2020), 11, 3677
  5. March 2020: H. Miller, S. Contera, A.J.M. Wollman, A. Hirst, K.E. Dunn, S. Schröter, D. O'Connell, M.C. Leake, Biophysical characterization of DNA origami nanostructures reveals inaccessibility to intercalation binding sites , Nanotechnology, (2020), 31, 235605
  6. August 2019: JH. Khoo, H. Miller, The power of three spatial dimensions, Nat. Rev. Microbiol., (2019), 17 (10), 591
  7. May 2018: H. Miller*, J. Cosgrove*, A.J.M. Wollman, E. Taylor, Z. Zhou, P. O'Toole, M. Coles**, M.C. Leake**, High-Speed Single-Molecule Tracking of CXCL13 in the B-Follicle, Front. Immunol., (2018), 9:1073
  8. February 2018: H. Miller*, Z. Zhou*, J.W. Shepherd, A.J.M. Wollman, M.C. Leake, Single-molecule techniques in biophysics: a review of the progress in methods and applications, Reports on Progress in Physics (2018), 81, 2,
  9. October 2016: A.J.M. Wollman*, H. Miller*, S. Foster, M.C. Leake, An automated image analysis framework for segmentation and division plane detection of single live Staphylococcus aureus cells which can operate at millisecond sampling time scales using bespoke Slimfield microscopy, Phys Biol (2016), 13, 5
  10. May 2016: H. Miller, A.J.M. Wollman, M.C. Leake, Designing a single-molecule biophysics tool for characterizing DNA damage for techniques that kill infectious pathogens through DNA damage effects, Adv Exp Med Biol (2016), 915, 115-27
  11. June 2015: Z. Zhou, H. Miller, A.J.M. Wollman, M.C. Leake, Developing a New Biophysical Tool to Combine Magneto-Optical Tweezers with Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy, Photonics (2015), 2, 3, 758-772
  12. April 2015: A.J.M. Wollman, H. Miller, Z. Zhou, M.C. Leake, Probing DNA interactions with proteins using a single-molecule toolbox: inside the cell, in a test tube and in a computer, Biochem. Soc. Trans. (2015), 43, 2, 139-145
  13. January 2015: H. Miller, Z. Zhou, A.J.M. Wollman, M.C. Leake, Superresolution imaging of single DNA molecules using stochastic photoblinking of minor groove and intercalating dyes, Methods (San Diego, Calif.) (2015), 88, 81-88,

*Joint first authors. ** Joint last authors

Preprints

  1. January 2021: G. Mamou, et al., Spatiotemporal organization of BamA governs the pattern of outer membrane protein distribution in growing Escherichia coli cells, bioRxiv

Programming Languages

Matlab⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Python⭐⭐⭐⭐
LabView⭐⭐
C++⭐⭐
HTML⭐⭐
Fortran 90⭐⭐
SQL⭐⭐
Javascript⭐⭐

My Previous Employment

DatesPosition
2023-Scientist in Atmospheric Dispersion and Air Quality; The Met Office, Exeter
2022Senior Research Scientist in Nuclear Medicine; The Christie Hospital, Manchester
2017-2022Postdoctoral Research Assistant; Professor R. Berry; The University of Oxford