Dr. Keturah Adams is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU). She specializes in Biochemistry.
EDUCATION
2009 – B.S. Chemistry, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
2012 – M.S. Biological Chemistry, Texas A&M University
2016 – Ph.D. Biological Chemistry, Texas A&M University
2019 – Began teaching at SWOSU
RESEARCH
Functional Characterization of Alternative Splice Variants of Elongation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids-4 (ELOVL4) In Human Disorders
Dr. Keturah A. Adams (Mentor)
Accepting students Spring 2021 and future semesters.
Details coming soon.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email:
keturah.adams@swosu.edu Office Number: CPP 202-B
Phone Number: 580-774-6027
TEACHING: BASIC COURSES
CHEM 1004 Gen Chem
CHEM 1004L Gen Chem Lab
CHEM 1203 Gen Chem I
CHEM 1252 Gen Chem I Lab
CHEM 1303 Gen Chem II
CHEM 1352 Gen Chem II Lab
TEACHING: BIOCHEMISTRY
CHEM 4124 Biochemistry
CHEM 4124L Biochemistry Lab
CHEM 4011 Biochemistry Lab
OTHER ACTIVITIES
AUG 2020-PRESENT
Chemistry Tutoring Coordinator
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Kurra Y, Odoi KA, Lee YJ, Yang Y, Lu T, Wheeler SE, Torres-Kolbus J, Deiters A, & Liu WR. (2014 Sep 17). Two rapid catalyst-free click reactions for in vivo protein labeling oy genetically encoded strained alkene/alkyne functionalities. Bioconjugate Chem, 25(9), 1730-1738.
PMID: 25158039
doi: 10.1021/bc500361d
*Contributed equally
Odoi KA, Huang Y, Rezenom YH, & Liu WR. (2013). Nonsense and sense suppression abilities of original and derivative Methanosarcina mazei pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA(Pyl) pairs in the Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) cell strain. PLos One, 8(3), e57035.
PMID: 23520461
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057035
O’Donoghue P, Prat L, Heinemann IU, Ling J, Odoi KA, Huang Y, Liu WR, & Söll D. (2012). Near-cognate suppression of amber, opal and quadruplet codons competes with aminoacyl-tRNAPyl for genetic code expansion. FEBS Letters, 586(21), 3931-3937.
PMID: 23036644
doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.09.033
SWOSU Department of Chemistry & Physics 