Dr Katrin Rittinger

Dr Katrin Rittinger is a Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, London. After obtaining a degree in chemistry from the University of Heidelberg she completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg followed by a postdoc at the MRC-National Institute for Medical Research in London. She established her independent group in 2000 at the MRC-NIMR, which became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015. Her group is studying the mechanism and structural basis of intracellular signalling processes employing a broad range of biochemical, biophysical and structural approaches. Specifically, work in the group is focussed on protein ubiquitination as a key regulatory mechanism to drive cellular behaviour and the mechanism by which bacterial virulence factors interfere with host cell signalling to create a replicative niche. In parallel, she is collaborating with the Crick GSK LinkLabs to develop chemical probes that target the ubiquitin system.