Saulius Klima拧auskas graduated Organic Chemistry at Vilnius University, and then worked on characterization of bacterial DNA methyltransferases with Prof. Arvydas Janulaitis at the Institute of Applied Enzymology Fermentas in Vilnius Lithuania to receive his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry in 1987. He was a postdoctoral scientist in structural and molecular biology of DNA methyltransferases with Dr. Sir Richard J. Roberts (NL) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. After starting his own group in 1995 at the Institute of Biotechnology in Vilnius, Lithuania he grew through the ranks of Head of Laboratory, Head of Department to become a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University in 2017. Prof. Klima拧auskas was a repeat International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1995鈥�2005), a JSPS invited professor at Osaka University (2002). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and was elected an EMBO member and a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. His long standing research interests include mechanistic studies and molecular engineering of AdoMet-dependent methyltransferases and epigenetic mechanisms involving biological modification of DNA and RNA.