Rismondo, Jeanine, Dr.*

Junior Group Leader Institute of Microbiology and Genetics

2010 BSc in Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2012 MSc in Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2016 PhD in Microbiology (Dr. rer. nat), Robert Koch-Institute Wernigerode / TU Braunschweig, Germany
2016-2019 Postdoc, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Since 2020 Junior group leader, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen

Major Research Interests
Our group studies the sugar metabolism of the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes and how it is regulated in response to diverse environmental conditions and during infection. To this end, we are currently investigating the role of a putative sugar ABC transporter on growth, peptidoglycan biosynthesis and virulence of L. monocytogenes. Additionally, we aim to characterize transcriptional regulators of the RpiR family, which are often involved in the control of sugar phosphate metabolic pathways. Pathogenic Listeria species often encode more RpiR-type transcriptional regulators as non-pathogenic Listeria species, and we hence speculate that some of them could be important for growth of L. monocytogenes inside the host.

Homepage Department/Research Group
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ORCID: 0000-0001-5337-3829