Lotte Bang Pedersen

Lotte Bang Pedersen

Professor

ORICID

0000-0002-9749-3758

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, SUPERVISION, 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-: Supervisor for 77 BSc students, 48 MSc students, 11 PhD students, 8 postdocs

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

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)

2020-2023: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, “SCilS-Studying Ciliary Signaling in Development and Disease” (co-PI; 3,844,874 €)

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. 2010-2013: Coordinator of the Nordic Cilia and Centrosome Network. 2018: Main organizer of the EMBO Workshop “Cilia 2018”, Scandic Copenhagen, DK. 2020-24: partner in H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 “SCilS-Studying Ciliary Signaling in Development and Disease”

RECENT INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS

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

EDITORIAL AND REFEREE WORK

Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors at eLife (since 2019). Member of the editorial board of Cilia. Ad-hoc reviewer for >25 international, peer-reviewed journals and >10 international funding agencies. Evaluator of 14 PhD theses in Denmark and abroad. Tenure/mid-tenure evaluation of Jantje Gerdes, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen (2017, 2019); Elif Nur Firat Karalar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey (2020); Jakub Sedzinski, DanStem, UCPH (2020); Vladimir Varga, Institute of Mol. Genetics, Prague, CZ (2021). External reviewer of 42 applications for Associate Professor position in cell biology, Umeå University, Sweden (2020). External evaluator of biology BSc    programme, European University Cyprus (2020).

BIBLIOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

Publications: 69 published/accepted publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 41 as first or last author

H-index: 37 (Google Scholar 310523)         

Total number of citations: 6030 (Google Scholar 310523)

 

 

Uddannelse

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