Dr. Delaney Miller

Postdoctoral Fellow Handelsman Lab Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Dr. Delaney Miller has spent the last 12 years researching biocontrol strategies against prevalent pathogens in a variety of hosts, ranging from endangered frogs to managed pollinators, and now major crops. She has a PhD from Indiana University where she discovered a bacterial symbiont that protects honey bees from fungal infection. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Jo Handelsman at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery where she studies interactions in the plant microbiome. She is involved in Tiny Earth, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), designed by Dr. Handelsman to discover microbes which produce novel antibiotics. Her current work focuses on developing consortia of Tiny Earth isolates that protect crops from the damaging and pervasive soilborne pathogen, Globisporangium ultimum.