Lotte Bang Pedersen

Lotte Bang Pedersen

Professor

ORICID ID: 0000-0002-9749-3758

X: @LottePedersen12

EDUCATION

October 1996: PhD, Medical Microbiology, University of Aarhus, DK

April 1994: MSc, Chemistry-Biotechnology, University of Aarhus

CURRENT AND RECENT EMPLOYMENT

2019-present: Professor of Cell Biology, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2009-2019: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2005-2008: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2000-2005: Postdoc, Dept. of Mol. Cell. & Dev. Biol., Yale Univ., USA

1997-2000: Postdoc, Dept. of Biochemistry, UConn Health Center, CT, USA

ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHING

2017-2019: Member of Strategic Research Council, UCPH

2014-2022: Member+chairman (since 2019) of Study Council for Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, UCPH

2013-2016: Member of Academic Council, Faculty of Science, UCPH

2010-2013: Coordinator of Nordic Cilia and Centrosome Network

2005-: Co-head of the Cilia group, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2005-: Teacher in the courses Almen Molekylær Biologi, Cellebiologi for Biokemikere (course responsible), Advanced Cell Biology, Experimental Cell Biology, Cellular Signaling in Health and Disease

CURRENT FUNDING

2025-2029: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01, “Cilia-AI” (co-PI; ca. 4 mio DKK for my group)

2023-2027: HORIZON EUROPE Health, “Therapies for Renal Ciliopathies” (co-PI; EUR 7,425,446.8) 

2023-2025: Carlsberg Foundation, “Protein localization dynamics at the primary cilium” (PI; 211,549 DKK)

2023-2025: Novo Nordisk Foundation, “Targeting of pH-regulatory transport proteins to primary cilia of kidney epithelial cells” (PI; 2,982,587 DKK)

2022-2025: Independent Research Fund Denmark, “Multimotor transport in primary cilia” (PI; 2,845,601 DKK)

RESEARCH FOCUS AND INTERNATIONAL RELEATIONS

Research focus: molecular mechanisms of primary cilia assembly, maintenance, and function.

International relations: Joint publications and/or active collaborations with researchers from >11 countries. Since 2020: partner in three EU-funded projects/consortia, including MSCA-ITN-2019 “SCilS-Studying Ciliary Signaling in Development and Disease”; HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-04 “Therapies for Renal Ciliopathies”; HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01 “Cilia-AI”. 2018: Main organizer of the EMBO Workshop “Cilia 2018”, Scandic Copenhagen, DK. 2010-2013: Coordinator of the Nordic Cilia and Centrosome Network. 

RECENT INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS

May 2024: speaker at Faseb Cilia meeting, St. Paul Minnesota, USA 

February 2023: Seminar speaker, San Rafaelle Hospital, Milan

December 2022: Invited speaker, ASCB/EMBO subgroup meeting, Washington DC, USA

October 2022: Invited speaker, EMBO Workshop: Cilia 2022, Cologne, D

June 2022: Invited keynote speaker, Czech cilia meeting, Prague, CZE

May 2022: Seminar speaker, UMass Medical School, MA, USA; online

April 2022: Departmental seminar speaker, Brunel University London, UK

November 2021: LYSOCIL Workshop on Cilia and Ciliopathies, Lisbon, PT

August 2021: European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference; online

May 2021:  LYSOCIL Workshop on Cilia and Ciliopathies; online

OTHER

October 2018: Organizer of EMBO Workshop Cilia 2018, Copenhagen 

Reviewing Editor at eLife (since 2019) 

Member of Faculty of 1000 (since 2023) 

Ad-hoc reviewer for >26 international, peer-reviewed journals and >12 international funding agencies

BIBLIOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

For updated overview of publications and citations, see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7dajJHMAAAAJ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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