Samuel Miller, PhD

Samuel Miller, Ph.D., is a microbiologist specializing in anaerobic and uncultured microbes. He is a postdoctoral researcher and senior scientist at Oklahoma State University, co-host of the Life Unculturable podcast, and executive editor of TLR.

The Margins

Specimen of the Month July 2026 - Anaerobic Gut Fungi: The (Forgotten) Fungi I Never Thought I'd Write About

I'll admit it … I’ve spent most of my academic career completely ignoring all things fungi. As an anaerobic microbiologist and microbial systematist, I was perfectly content cultivating bacteria that perish upon exposure to oxygen and describing new members of the bacterial tree of life ... fungi simply weren&