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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Julius Adler is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple domains including political science, international relations, and biology, with a focus on behavior in organisms as well as historical and contemporary political dynamics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? The Joint Reconciliation Declaration of Germany and Namibia for the Herero and Nama Genocide (2022), published in the German Yearbook of International Law
  • Every Organism has its own "The Boss". Behavior of Bacteria Compared to Behavior of Eukaryotes (2023), published in Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal
  • The Behavior of Organisms and how the Response is Directed (2023), published in Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal
  • Mechanism of Behavior (2023), published in Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal
  • The Boss: Behaviour in All the Organisms (2024), published in Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal

Their frequent coauthor is Sara Wissmann.

Adler has published primarily in the Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal, where four of their recent papers have appeared, alongside the German Yearbook of International Law.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Subfields of study reflected in their work are Political Science and International Relations as well as History.

Recognition for their contributions includes several honors and distinctions:

  • ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology (1995)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1991)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976)

Best Publications

  • Chemotaxis in bacteria.

    J Adler

  • Chemoreceptors in Bacteria

    Julius Adler

  • Pressure-sensitive ion channel in Escherichia coli.

    Boris Martinac;Matthew Buechner;Anne H. Delcour;Julius Adler

  • The sensing of chemicals by bacteria.

    Julius Adler

  • Change in direction of flagellar rotation is the basis of the chemotactic response in Escherichia coli

    Steven H. Larsen;Robert W. Reader;Edward N. Kort;Wung-Wai Tso;Wung-Wai Tso

  • Protein methylation in behavioural control mechanisms and in signal transduction

    Martin S. Springer;Martin S. Springer;Michael F. Goy;Michael F. Goy;Julius Adler

  • The effect of environmental conditions on the motility of Escherichia coli.

    J. Adler;Bonnie Templeton

  • Negative Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli

    Wung-Wai Tso;Julius Adler

  • Mechanosensitive ion channels of E. coli activated by amphipaths.

    Boris Martinac;Julius Adler;Ching Kung

  • Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. VII. Synthesis of a polymer of deoxyadenylate and deoxythymidylate

    H. K. Schachman;H. K. Schachman;H. K. Schachman;Julius Adler;Julius Adler;Julius Adler;Charles M. Radding;Charles M. Radding;Charles M. Radding;I. R. Lehman;I. R. Lehman;I. R. Lehman

  • Chemotaxis Toward Amino Acids in Escherichia coli

    Robert Mesibov;Julius Adler

  • Chemotaxis Toward Sugars in Escherichia coli

    Julius Adler;Gerald L. Hazelbauer;M. M. Dahl

  • Fine Structure and Isolation of the Hook-Basal Body Complex of Flagella from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

    M. L. DePamphilis;Julius Adler

  • Chemomechanical coupling without ATP: the source of energy for motility and chemotaxis in bacteria.

    Steven H. Larsen;Julius Adler;J. Jay Gargus;Robert W. Hogg

  • Sensory transduction in Escherichia coli: two complementary pathways of information processing that involve methylated proteins.

    Martin S. Springer;Michael F. Goy;Julius Adler

  • Role of the galactose binding protein in chemotaxis of Escherichia coli toward galactose.

    Gerald L. Hazelbauer;Julius Adler

  • The range of attractant concentrations for bacterial chemotaxis and the threshold and size of response over this range. Weber law and related phenomena.

    Robert Mesibov;George W. Ordal;Julius Adler

  • Nonchemotactic mutants of Escherichia coli.

    John B. Armstrong;Julius Adler;Margaret M. Dahl

  • Methylation of a membrane protein involved in bacterial chemotaxis

    Edward N. Kort;Michael F. Goy;Steven H. Larsen;Julius Adler

  • Sensory transduction in Escherichia coli: Role of a protein methylation reaction in sensory adaptation

    Michael F. Goy;Martin S. Springer;Julius Adler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ching Kung
Ching Kung University of Wisconsin–Madison
Boris Martinac
Boris Martinac Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Wenyuan Shi
Wenyuan Shi ADA Forsyth Institute
Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg Stanford University
George W. Ordal
George W. Ordal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael R. Culbertson
Michael R. Culbertson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Roy A. Black
Roy A. Black Amgen (United States)
Henry A. Lardy
Henry A. Lardy University of Wisconsin–Madison
I. R. Lehman
I. R. Lehman Stanford University
Howard K. Schachman
Howard K. Schachman University of California, Berkeley

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