Daniela Miller
Crop Science - PhD
Bio
- Degree Program: PhD, Crop Science
- Advisors: Dr. Gina Brown-Guedira
My name is Daniela Miller and I am pursuing a PhD at North Carolina State University under Dr. Gina Brown-Guedira. I am originally from Maryland, where I made my first wheat cross in an undergraduate course, and have been fascinated by breeding and genomics ever since. I am working on two PhD projects: one is characterizing genomic regions controlling glaucousness in spikes and flag leaves of wheat, using GWAS, QTL mapping, and RNAseq; the other project is to build a reference-quality genome assembly for soft red winter wheat cultivar ‘AGS2000.’ I am interested in the application of long-read sequencing technology to accelerate positional cloning and identification of large structural variation. I look forward to conspire with the other great students in the WheatCAP program. After graduation, I hope to continue a research career in genomics or computational biology.