Research Areas: Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology Microbial Biotechnology His research concerns microorganisms from volcanic environments that thrive at temperatures near 100°C, the normal boiling point, with an emphasis on their metabolism, enzymology and metal-containing proteins, and their use in the production of biofuels. He has over 300 publications in international scientific journals and has edited eight books in these areas. His research is funded by the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For the past ten years Dr. Adams has been the Editor of the Journal of Bacteriology and served on the editorial boards of four other international journals. In 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology and in 2010 received the Charles Thom award for research excellence from the Society of Industrial Microbiolog