Kate Adamala
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw ; Roma Tre University 'Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsSynthetic biology
Astrobiology Bioengineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
Doctoral advisorJack Szostak and Pier Luigi Luisi
Other academic advisorsEd Boyden
Websiteprotobiology.org

Katarzyna (Kate) P Adamala is an American synthetic biologist and a professor of genetics at the University of Minnesota.[1][2][3]

Research

Adamala's work includes contributions to the field of astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering[4] and biocomputing.[5]

Her research on prebiotic RNA replication provided an experimental scenario for the RNA world hypothesis of the origin of life.[6] She has worked on constructing liposome bioreactor synthetic cells.[7]

She is a founder and steering group member of the Build-a-Cell Initiative, an international collaboration for creation of synthetic live cells.[8][9] She is a co-founder of synthetic cell company Synlife.[10] Adamala and Szostak demonstrated non enzymatic RNA replication in primitive protocells is only possibly in presence of weak cation chelator like citric acid, providing further evidence for central role of citric acid in primordial metabolism. doi:10.1126/science.1241888

References

  1. ↑ "UMn CBS". Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.
  2. ↑ "Microsoft Academic". Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.
  3. ↑ "ORCID Adamala". Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.
  4. ↑ Service, R. F. (2013). "The Life Force". Science. 342 (6162): 1032–1034. doi:10.1126/science.342.6162.1032. PMID 24288312.
  5. ↑ "Biology could be the future of data storage". Biofuels Digest. Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.
  6. ↑ Müller, Ulrich F.; Tor, Yitzhak (2014). "Citric Acid and the RNA World". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53 (21): 5245–5247. doi:10.1002/anie.201400847. PMC 4357230. PMID 24828228.
  7. ↑ Adamala, Katarzyna P.; Martin-Alarcon, Daniel A.; Guthrie-Honea, Katriona R.; Boyden, Edward S. (2017). "Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells". Nature Chemistry. 9 (5): 431–439. Bibcode:2017NatCh...9..431A. doi:10.1038/nchem.2644. PMC 5407321. PMID 28430194.
  8. ↑ "Build-a-Cell". Build-a-cell. Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.
  9. ↑ Callaway, Ewen (2016). "'Minimal' cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life". Nature. 531 (7596): 557–558. Bibcode:2016Natur.531..557C. doi:10.1038/531557a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 27029256.
  10. ↑ "Synlife Bio". Synlife. Retrieved 10 Dec 2019.


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