Kenneth W. Adolph
Associate Professor
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
University of Minnesota
United States of America
Biography
He is a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His primary research interests are gene structure and regulation. Earlier postdoctoral positions were at Princeton University in the Department of Biochemistry and at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. Kenneth Adolph earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Biophysics at the University of Chicago, with B.S. and M.S degrees in physics from the University of Wisconsin. In addition to being an Editor of "Methods", he also edited the eight volumes of the "Methods in Molecular Genetics" book series (Academic Press) and 12 other volumes, including "Genome Research in Molecular Medicine and Virology" (Academic Press) and "Molecular Biology of Chromosome Function" (Springer-Verlag).
Research Interest
Genes for the thrombospondin (TSP) proteins and the metaxin (MTX) proteins. Another research focus has been to sequence cDNAs for a new metaxin protein (MTX3), not previously described, in zebrafish and Xenopus.
Publications
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Adolph KW. (2002) The zebrafish thrombospondin 3 and 4 genes (thbs3 and thbs4): cDNA and protein structure. DNA Sequence; 13 : 277-285.
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Adolph KW. (2004) The zebrafish metaxin 3 gene (mtx3): cDNA and protein structure, and comparison to zebrafish metaxins 1 and 2. Gene; 330 : 67-73.
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Adolph KW. (2005) Characterization of the cDNA and amino acid sequences of Xenopus Metaxin 3, and relationship to Xenopus Metaxins 1 and 2: Full Length Research Paper. DNA Sequence; 16 : 252-259.
