Our Team - Principal Investigators

Stine Falsig Pedersen

Professor Stine F. Pedersen’s primary fields of research are mammalian acid-base homeostasis and associated signaling events in health and disease; structure-function relations, regulatory interactions, physiology and pathophysiology of acid-base transport proteins, with a focus on the Na+/H+ exchanger NHE1 and the Na+,HCO3- cotransporter NBCn1. She is currently at the head of the NHE1 group in the University of Copenhagen, managing 3 postdocs, 4 PhD students, and around 10 masters students and research assistants. Her group studies cellular acid-base homeostasis and associated signaling in normal physiology, cancer, and metabolic disease. Its specific interests are how pH is regulated in each cellular compartment, how it is sensed by cells, and how it in turn regulates cellular functions – as well as structure-function and regulatory interactions of pH regulatory transport proteins.

For more information about her work:
https://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/research/cbp/the-nhe1-group/

Rodolphe Marie

Associate Professor Rodolphe Marie’s primary fields of research are Nanofluidics and Bioimaging; and Fluidics at the micro- and nanoscale to manipulate and image biological particles. In his lab, they focus on experimental nanofluidics for the manipulation and imaging of biologically relevant particles such as macro-molecules, lipid vesicles, metaphase chromosomes and cells. Their goal is to provide new tools for the life sciences based on a combination of micro-/nanofluidics, biophysics, and optical imaging techniques.

For more information about his work:
https://www.healthtech.dtu.dk/forskning/forskningssektioner/section-nanobiophys/group-nanofluidics-and-bioimaging

Albin Sandelin

Professor Albin Gustav Sandelin’s primary fields of research are gene regulation bioinformatics and tag-based expression and promoter analysis. He is currently at the head of the Sandelin lab in the University of Copenhagen, managing 4 postdocs, 6 PhD students and a research technician. The Sandelin lab has a dual focus: Medical transcriptomics and fundamental gene regulation. On the medical side, they work with pancreatic cancer genetics / microenvironment and inflammatory states including inflammatory bowl disease and prenatal programming of disease. They have a long string of discoveries in fundamental gene regulation, including enhancer RNAs and promoter action. The laboratory is both computational and experimental, and many postdocs and PhDs do both. 

For more information about his work:
https://www.sandelinlab.org/

Ute Resch-Genger

Professor Ute Resch-Genger’s primary fields of research are: Fluorescence spectroscopic and microscopic investigations including the relative and absolute measurement of fluorescence quantum yields of liquid and solid, transparent and translucent materials in the UV/VIS/NIR spectrum range (350–1700 nm); Traceable, temperature-dependent and polarisation-dependent measurements of optical properties (absorption, scatter, reflection, luminescence) of chromophore systems; Quantification of functional groups, ligands, and biomolecules on particle surfaces and 2D substrates; and Traceable calibration strategies and standards.

She is currentlly at the head of the Biophotonics division in the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM, Berlin, Germany). The focus of the Biophotonics division's work lies in optical methods for the measurement and characterisation of the interaction of materials and light, for example in applications in materials research, bioanalytics, medicine, environmental chemistry, pharmaceuticals, bioengineering, genetic engineering, agriculture and food technology. The research includes the design, the traceable spectroscopic characterisation and the application of functional organic, inorganic, and hybrid molecular and nanoscale chromophore systems and bioconjugates.

For more information about her work:
https://www.bam.de/Navigation/EN/About-us/Organisation/Organisation-Chart/President/Department-1/Division-12/division12.html