Corey Miller, PhD, MD

Asst Adjunct Professor
Diabetes Center
+1 415 502-9581

The Miller Lab is working to develop our understanding of stromal-immune crosstalk, T cell development, and T cell mediated immunity. We use methods in experimental and systems immunology to dissect how the thymus supports thymoctye development while maintaining central immune tolerance.

Publications: 

Aire in Autoimmunity.

Annual review of immunology

Miller CN, Waterfield MR, Gardner JM, Anderson MS

Ikaros is a principal regulator of Aire+ mTEC homeostasis, thymic mimetic cell diversity, and central tolerance.

Science immunology

Sin JH, Sucharov J, Kashyap S, Wang Y, Proekt I, Liu X, Parent AV, Gupta A, Kastner P, Chan S, Gardner JM, Ntranos V, Miller CN, Anderson MS, Schjerven H, Waterfield MR

Single-cell transcriptional profiling of human thymic stroma uncovers novel cellular heterogeneity in the thymic medulla.

Nature communications

Bautista JL, Cramer NT, Miller CN, Chavez J, Berrios DI, Byrnes LE, Germino J, Ntranos V, Sneddon JB, Burt TD, Gardner JM, Ye CJ, Anderson MS, Parent AV

Combined transient ablation and single cell RNA sequencing reveals the development of medullary thymic epithelial cells.

eLife

Wells KL, Miller CN, Gschwind AR, Wei W, Phipps JD, Anderson MS, Steinmetz LM

Thymic regulatory T cells arise via two distinct developmental programs.

Nature immunology

Owen DL, Mahmud SA, Sjaastad LE, Williams JB, Spanier JA, Simeonov DR, Ruscher R, Huang W, Proekt I, Miller CN, Hekim C, Jeschke JC, Aggarwal P, Broeckel U, LaRue RS, Henzler CM, Alegre ML, Anderson MS, August A, Marson A, Zheng Y, Williams CB, Farrar MA

Thymic tuft cells promote an IL-4-enriched medulla and shape thymocyte development.

Nature

Miller CN, Proekt I, von Moltke J, Wells KL, Rajpurkar AR, Wang H, Rattay K, Khan IS, Metzger TC, Pollack JL, Fries AC, Lwin WW, Wigton EJ, Parent AV, Kyewski B, Erle DJ, Hogquist KA, Steinmetz LM, Locksley RM, Anderson MS

Detection of Succinate by Intestinal Tuft Cells Triggers a Type 2 Innate Immune Circuit.

Immunity

Nadjsombati MS, McGinty JW, Lyons-Cohen MR, Jaffe JB, DiPeso L, Schneider C, Miller CN, Pollack JL, Nagana Gowda GA, Fontana MF, Erle DJ, Anderson MS, Locksley RM, Raftery D, von Moltke J

Insights into immune tolerance from AIRE deficiency.

Current opinion in immunology

Proekt I, Miller CN, Lionakis MS, Anderson MS

Revisiting the Road Map of Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cell Differentiation.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Michel C, Miller CN, Küchler R, Brors B, Anderson MS, Kyewski B, Pinto S

Tolerance checkpoint bypass permits emergence of pathogenic T cells to neuromyelitis optica autoantigen aquaporin-4.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Sagan SA, Winger RC, Cruz-Herranz A, Nelson PA, Hagberg S, Miller CN, Spencer CM, Ho PP, Bennett JL, Levy M, Levin MH, Verkman AS, Steinman L, Green AJ, Anderson MS, Sobel RA, Zamvil SS

LYN- and AIRE-mediated tolerance checkpoint defects synergize to trigger organ-specific autoimmunity.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Proekt I, Miller CN, Jeanne M, Fasano KJ, Moon JJ, Lowell CA, Gould DB, Anderson MS, DeFranco AL

Identification of a novel cis-regulatory element essential for immune tolerance.

The Journal of experimental medicine

LaFlam TN, Seumois G, Miller CN, Lwin W, Fasano KJ, Waterfield M, Proekt I, Vijayanand P, Anderson MS

Continuous Antigenic Stimulation of DO11.10 TCR Transgenic Mice in the Presence or Absence of IL-1ß: Possible Implications for Mechanisms of T Cell Depletion in HIV Disease.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Ladell K, Hazenberg MD, Fitch M, Emson C, McEvoy-Hein Asgarian BK, Mold JE, Miller C, Busch R, Price DA, Hellerstein MK, McCune JM

IL-7 production in murine lymphatic endothelial cells and induction in the setting of peripheral lymphopenia.

International immunology

Miller CN, Hartigan-O'Connor DJ, Lee MS, Laidlaw G, Cornelissen IP, Matloubian M, Coughlin SR, McDonald DM, McCune JM

Adaptation to ER stress is mediated by differential stabilities of pro-survival and pro-apoptotic mRNAs and proteins.

PLoS biology

Rutkowski DT, Arnold SM, Miller CN, Wu J, Li J, Gunnison KM, Mori K, Sadighi Akha AA, Raden D, Kaufman RJ

The unfolded protein response sensor IRE1alpha is required at 2 distinct steps in B cell lymphopoiesis.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Zhang K, Wong HN, Song B, Miller CN, Scheuner D, Kaufman RJ