Lab Members

Prof. Dr. Trese Leinders-Zufall

Email: trese.leinders @uks.eu

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16350

Research - Publications

Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Zufall

Email: f.zufall @lmu.de

Research - Publications

Gabriele Mörschbächer

Secretarial (Administrative) Office

Email: gabriele.moerschbaecher @uks.eu

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16350

Scientific Personnel

André Heller

PhD-Student

Email: andre.heller @uks.eu

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16379

Dr. Martina Pyrski

Scientist

Email: martina.pyrski @uks.eu

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16376

Lasse Riemann

Cand.med. 2023

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16379

Dr. Jan Weiss

Scientist

Email: jan.weiss @uks.eu

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16376

Technical Personnel

Monika Vorndran

Technical Assistant, Molecular Biology

Email: m.vorndran @mx.uni-saarland.de

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16377

Animal Care Personnel

Visiting Scientists / Scientific Collaborators

Prof. Dr. Bernd Bufe

Phone: +49 (0)6841 16-16335

Email: bernd.bufe @hs-kl.de

University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern

Dr. Pablo Chamero

Université François Rabelais

Lab. Physiologie de la Reproduction & des Comportements,

Latest news:

April 2026: Frank Zufall is appointed guest professor at the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich.

(email: f.zufall @lmu.de)

Ideal efficiacy photoswitching for chromocontrol of TRPC4/5 channel functions in live tissue. Müller M, Niemeyer K, Ojha NK, Porav SA, Vinayagam D, Urban N, Büchau F, Oleinikov K, Makke M, Bauer CC, Johnson AV, Muench SP, Zufall F, Bruns D, Schwarz Y, Raunser S, Leinders-Zufall T, Bon RS, Schaefer M, Thorn-Seshold O (2026) Nature Chemical Biology.

Tuft cell IL-17RB restrains IL-25 bioavailability and reveals context-dependent ILC2 hypoproliferation. Feng X, Andersson T, Flüchter P, Gschwend J, Berest I, Muff JL, Lechner A, Gondrand A, Westermann P, Brander N, Carchidi D, DeTenorio JC, Pan T, Boehm U, Klose CSN, Artis D, Messner CB, Leinders-Zufall T, Zufall F, Schneider C (2025) Nature Immunology.

TRPC5 controls the adrenaline-mediated counter regulation of hypoglycemia. Bröker-Lai J, Terol JR, Richter C, Mathar I, Wirth, A, Kopf S, Moreno-Perez A, Büttner M, Tan LL, Makke M, Poschet G, Hermann J,, Tsvilovskyy V, Haberkorn U, Wartenberg P, Susperreguy S, Berlin M, Ottenheijm R, Phiippart K, Wu M, Wiedermann T, Herzig S, Belkacemi A, Terral RL, Agarwal N, Camacho Londono JE, Klebl B, Dinkel K, Zufall F, Nussbaumer P, Boehm U, Hell R, Nawroth P, Birnbaumer L, Leinders-Zufall T, Kuner R, Zorn M, Bruns D, Schwarz Y, Freichel M (2024) EMBO J, 43(23):5813-5836

Widespread distribution of luteinizing hormone/ choriogonadotropin receptor in human juvenile angiofibroma: Implicaations for a sex-specific nasal tumor. Wemmert, Pyrski, Pillong, Linxweiler, Zufall, Leinders-Zufall T, Schick B (2024) Cells 13, 1217

Congratulations to Dr. Kohei Koike for his outstanding doctoral thesis and receiving the Dr.-Eduard-Martin Preis !

News Saarland University Award

Congratulations to Dr. Brett Boonen for best short oral presentation at Behring-Röntgen and Leopoldina Tuft Cell Symposium in Gießen !

Optical activation of photoswitchable TRPC ligands in the mammalian olfactory system using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Ojha NK, Zufall F, Leinders-Zufall T (2023) In: Goldstein, B.J., Matsunami, H. (eds) The Olfactory System. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2710. Humana, New York, NY.

A succinate/SUCNR1-brush cell defense program in the tracheal epithelium. Perniss A, Boonen B, Tonach S, Thiel M, Poharkar K, Anouri WM, Keshavarz M, Papadakis T, Wiegand S, Pfeil U, Richter K, Althaus M, Obewinkler J, Schütz B, Boehm U, Offermans S, Leinders-Zufall T, Zufall F, Kummer W (2023) Science Advances.