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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

Current research

We study the molecular mechanisms by which primary cilia assemble, disassemble, and function to coordinate diverse signaling pathways during development and tissue homeostasis. Furthermore, we study the molecular basis underlying diseases caused by defective cilia (ciliopathies). We primarily use mammalian cell cultures as model systems.

For more information, check out the Cilia Group homepage: https://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/research/cbp/cilia/