Katarzyna (Kate) P Adamala is an American synthetic biologist and a professor of genetics at the University of Minnesota.
Research
Adamala's work includes contributions to the field of astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering and biocomputing.
Her research on prebiotic RNA replication provided an experimental scenario for the RNA world hypothesis of the origin of life. She has worked on constructing liposome bioreactor synthetic cells.
She is a founder and steering group member of the Build-a-Cell Initiative, an international collaboration for creation of synthetic live cells. She is a co-founder of synthetic cell company Synlife. 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.
References
External links
Lab webpage
Kate Adamala: Life but Not Alive TEDx talk
Mindscape Podcast Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life
Kate Adamala: Breakthrough Discuss 2019
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) Synthetic biologists American bioengineers Astrobiologists University of Warsaw alumni Harvard University alumni University of Minnesota faculty