Dr. Peter Tessarz (he/him)
Scientific Career
2014 - present | Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2009 - 2014 | Research Associate
Group of Tony Kouzarides, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow
Group of Bernd Bukau, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Education
2003 - 2008 | Graduate work (Dr. rer. nat.)
summa cum laude - Group of Bernd Bukau, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2003 | Diploma in Biochemistry
Group of Rodnina Rodnina Institute for Physical Biochemistry, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
2000 - 2003 | Studies in Biochemistry
University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Awards
2004 | Kekulé-Fellowship of the 'Fonds der chemischen Industrie'
Third-party funding
2022 - 2024 | Marga and Walter Boll Foundation
2021 - 2024 | BMBF Research Consortium IDEpiCo
2019 - 2020 | CECAD Seed Funding
Single-cell epigenomics in the ageing liver
2017 - 2020 | DFG Research Grant
H2AQ105 methylation, molecular mechanism of a novel histone modification
2014 | Kekulé-Fellowship of the 'Fonds der chemischen Industrie'
2013 - 2016 | BBSRC project grant
Glutamine methylation and its role in regulating FACT binding to chromatin