Albert Jeltsch
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Stuttgart
Institute of Biochemistry
Germany
Biography
Albert Jeltsch finished his PhD on restriction endonucleases at University Hannover in 1994. Afterwards he started working on DNA methyltransferases at Justus-Liebig University Giessen and and Jacobs University Bremen. Since 2011, he is professor of Biochemistry at the University Stuttgart. He received the Gerhard-Hess award (DFG) and BioFuture award (BMBF). Prof. Jeltsch has long standing expertise in the biochemical study of DNA and protein methyltransferases, methyl lysine reading domains and in rational and evolutionary protein design. His work has been published in >200 publications in peer reviewed journals and he is in the editorial boards of several journals.
Research Interest
Prof. Jeltsch has long standing expertise in the biochemical study of DNA and protein methyltransferases, methyl lysine reading domains and in rational and evolutionary protein design.