Julius Adler (biochemist)



Julius Adler Ph.D. is a Emeritus Professor of biochemistry and genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently doing research in the sensory reception in Drosophila. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1978.

Adler was born in Edelfingen, Germany in 1930. He attended Harvard University and received his A.B. in Biochemical Sciences in 1952. He then went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied with Henry A. Lardy and earned an M.S. in Biochemistry in 1954 and a PhD in Biochemistry in 1957. After graduating, Adler did postdoctoral fellowships with Arthur Kornberg in the Department of Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine and A. Dale Kaiser in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine.