Patrick Scheerer is the group leader of the workgroup “Protein X-ray Crystallography and Signal Transduction”, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He graduated from Technische Universität Berlin and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His research interests are elucidating molecular details and mechanisms of signal transduction processes in membrane proteins, signal transduction-related proteins, photoreceptors and metalloenzymes, protein X-ray crystallography, molecular biology/protein production methods, biophysical assays, LCP crystallization, free-electron laser techniques and cryo-electron microscopy.