Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

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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Selected Recent Publications


  • Benda M, Schulz L, Stülke J., Rismondo J (2021) Influence of the ABC transporter YtrBCDEF of Bacillus subtilis on competence, biofilm formation and cell wall thickness. Front Microbiol. 12:587035.

  • Rismondo J, Schulz, LM, Yacoub M, Wadhawan A, Hoppert M, Dionne MS, Gründling A. (2021) EslB is required for cell wall biosynthesis and modification in Listeria monocytogenes. J Bacteriol. 203: e00553-20.

  • Rismondo J, Haddad TFM, Shen Yang, Loessner MJ, and Gründling A. (2020) GtcA is required for LTA glycosylation in Listeria monocytogenes serovar 1/2a and Bacillus subtilis. Cell Surf. 6:100038.

  • Rismondo J, Halbedel S, Gründling A. (2019) Cell shape and antibiotic resistance are maintained by the activity of multiple FtsW and RodA enzymes in Listeria monocytogenes. mBio. 10:e01448-19.

  • Rismondo J, Percy MG, and Gründling A. (2018) Discovery of genes required for lipoteichoic acid glycosylation predicts two distinct mechanism for wall teichoic acid glycosylation. J Biol Chem. 293:3293-3306.