Birhanu Mekuaninte Kinfu
University of Hamburg, Germany
Biography
Birhanu KINFU studied his BSc at the University of Gondar in Applied Biology and his MSc at Addis Ababa University in Biotechnology. He completed both degrees with great distinction. He has worked as university lecturer for 2 years. Winning the prestigious DAAD research grant award (German academic exchange service) under its ‘young academics and scientists’ program, he is currently doing his PhD at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Microbiology and Biotechnology department. His main work focuses on biocatalytic phosphorylation of selected metabolites, metagenomics and in vitro protein expression systems with manuscripts on pipeline.
Abstract
Abstract : Biocatalytic asymmetric phosphorylation catalyzed by recombinant glycerate-2-kinase