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Janice Miller

Janice MillerJanice Miller

Personal Details
Name : Janice Miller
Email address : janicemiller131@yahoo.com
Nationality : British
Position : Technician

Janice had been a super lab tech in our group for 30 years and 4 months. What an achievement! Now she enjoys endless holiday and cruise exotic trips.

Qualifications
Year Institution Qualifications gained
1965 - 1968 Auchterderran Secondary School 4 "O" Grades
1968 - 1971 Kircaldy Technical College 2 "H" Grades
City & Guilds Science Technicians Certificate (Credit)

Career
1968 - 1974 : Employed by Fife Regional Council as Maingrade Laboratory Technician
1974 - 1976 : Employed by Gore Associates Ltd, Dunfermline to inspect and test specifications of cable and wire products
1981 - 1983 : Employed by AECI Ltd, South Africa as quality control technician in a production laboratory. Techniques used included HPLC, GLC, wet-chemical and microbiological techniques. I also managed the plant laboratory and supervised a team of plant operators.
1984 - 1985 : Employed by R&R Associates, Dunfermline to inspect and test specifications of cable and wire products
1985 - present : Employed by The University of Edinburgh as a Senior Technical Officer. Funded by AFRC, European Union, Bayer Crop Science and BBSRC

Research and Funding

  • Identification of novel endotransglycosylases.

    Research funding: Bayer CropScience

Publications

  • S.C. Fry and J.G. Miller (1987). H2O2-dependent cross-linking of feruloyl-pectins in vivo. Food Hydrocolloids 1: 395-397.
  • S.C. Fry and J.G. Miller (1989). Towards a working model of the growing plant cell wall: phenolic cross-linking reactions in the primary cell walls of Dicotyledons. In: The Biosynthesis and Biodegradation of Plant Cell Wall Polymers. Editors, N.G. Lewis and M.G. Paice. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. Pp 33-46.
  • J.G. Miller and S.C. Fry (1992). Preparation of radioactive isodityrosine. Phytochemical Analysis 3: 61-64.
  • J.G. Miller and S.C. Fry (1992). Production and harvesting of extensin, an ionically-bound cell wall protein, in plant cell suspension cultures. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 31: 61-66.
  • J.G. Miller and S.C. Fry (1993). Spinach extensin exhibits characteristics of an adhesive polymer. Acta Botanica Néerlandica 42: 221-231.
  • J.G. Miller, C.J. Buchanan, M.A. Eastwood and S.C. Fry (1995). Specific 14C-labelling of spinach cell walls in their methyl, acetyl or uronic acid residues. Carbohydrate Letters 1: 129-136.
  • J.G. Miller, C.J. Buchanan, M.A. Eastwood and S.C. Fry (1995). The solubilisation and hydrolysis of spinach cell wall polysaccharides in gastric and pancreatic fluids. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 68: 389-394.
  • K. Vissenberg, I.M. Martinez-Vilchez, J.-P. Verbelen, J.G. Miller, S.C. Fry (2000). In-vivo colocalization of xyloglucan endotransglycosylase activity and its donor substrate in the elongation zone of Arabidopsis roots. Plant Cell 12, 1229-1238.
  • S.C. Fry, J.C. Dumville, J.G. Miller (2001). Fingerprinting of polysaccharides attacked by hydroxyl radicals in vitro and in the cell walls of ripening pear fruit. Biochemical Journal 357, 729-735.
  • J.G. Miller, S.C. Fry (2001). Characteristics of xyloglucan after attack by hydroxyl radicals. Carbohydrate Research 332, 389-403.
  • S.C. Fry, J.G. Miller, J.C. Dumville (2002) A proposed role for copper ions in cell wall loosening. Plant and Soil 247, 57–67.
  • J.G. Miller, S.C. Fry (2004) N-[3H]Benzoylglycylglycylglycine as a probe for hydroxyl radicals. Analytical Biochemistry 335, 126–134.
  • M. Lenucci, G. Piro, J.G. Miller, G. Dalessandro, S.C. Fry (2005) Do polyamines contribute to plant cell wall assembly by forming amide bonds with pectins? Phytochemistry 66:2581-2594.
  • J.G. Miller, V. Farkaš, S.C. Sharples, S.C. Fry (2007) O-Oligosaccharidyl-1-amino-1-deoxyalditols as intermediates for fluorescent labelling of oligosaccharides. Carbohydrate Research 342, 44–54.
  • S.C. Fry, B.H.W.A. Nesselrode, J.G. Miller, B.R. Mewburn (2008) Mixed-linkage (1→3,1→4)-b-d-glucan is a major hemicellulose of Equisetum (horsetail) cell walls. New Phytologist 179, 104–115.
  • T. Takeda, J.G. Miller, S.C. Fry (2008) Anionic derivatives of xyloglucan function as acceptor but not donor substrates for xyloglucan endotransglucosylase activity. Planta 227, 893–905.
  • A. Maris, N. Kaewthai, J.M. Eklöf, J.G. Miller, H. Brumer, S.C. Fry, J.P. Verbelen, K. Vissenberg (2011) Differences in enzymic properties of five recombinant xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase (XTH) proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 261–271
  • Iurlaro A, Dalessandro G, Piro G, Miller JG, Fry SC , Lenucci MS. (2014). Evaluation of glycosidic bond cleavage and formation of oxo groups in oxidized barley mixed-linkage β-glucans using tritium labelling. Food Research International 66: 115–122.

Hobbies and Interests

I enjoy the theatre and cinema, reading good books, painting and decorating, gardening, going to the gym and swimming. I am also an avid supporter of the Dunfermline Football Club.



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