Kate Adamala
Assistant Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota
United States of America
Biography
Kate received a MSc in chemistry from the University of Warsaw, Poland, studying synthetic organic chemistry. In grad school, she worked with professor Pier Luigi Luisi from University Roma Tre and Jack Szostak from Harvard University. She studied RNA biophysics, small peptide catalysis and liposome dynamics, in an effort to build a chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution. Kate’s postdoctoral work in Ed Boyden’s Synthetic Neurobiology group at MIT focused on developing novel methods for multiplex control and readout of mammalian cells.
Research Interest
Building artificial chemical systems mimicking cells, Engineering generalized RNA-protein interactions: a toolbox for regulation and readout of gene expression.
Publications
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Adamala KP, Engelhart AE, Szostak JW. (2016) Collaboration between primitive cell membranes and soluble catalysts. Nature communications; 7.
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Adamala KP, Martin-Alarcon DA, Boyden ES. (2016) Programmable RNA-binding protein composed of repeats of a single modular unit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 113 : E2579-2588.
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Adamala KP, Martin-Alarcon DA, Guthrie-Honea KR, Boyden ES. (2017) Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells. Nature chemistry; 9 : 431.
