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PROF. DR. STEPHAN FRINGS Date of birth: 29 July, 1956 Gender: male Address: Heidelberg University Centre for Organismal Studies Department of Molecular Physiology Im Neuenheimer Feld 230 69120 Heidelberg Germany Phone: +49-(0)6221-545661 Email: frings@uni-hd.de Current position: Professor of Physiology (C3) Children: none CURRICULUM VITAE University education 1985 - 1989 PhD student at the University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New

Zealand 1980 - 1985 Studies of Biology at the University of Konstanz Scientific degrees 1997 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Zoology at the Faculty of Mathematics

and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany. Topic of thesis: "Signal transduction in olfactory receptor neurons".

1989 Doctoral Dissertation, PhD Subject "Ion channels in the toad bladder epithelial cells". Supervisor: Prof. Anthony D.C. Macknight, Department of Physiology, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Professional experience 2003 - 2007 Dean of studies, Faculty of Biosciences since 2002 Professor for Molecular Physiology at Heidelberg University 1992 - 2002 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kaupp at the Institute for

Biological Information Processing, Jülich Research Center, Jülich, Germany

1989 - 1992 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Bernd Lindemann at the Department of Physiology, University of the Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Awards and honors 2007 Teaching award of the state of Baden-Württemberg 1992 - 1994 Habilitation stipend by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Editorial boards none

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Memberships, panels and coordinating functions since 2008 Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, Heidelberg; member of the

board of directors 2007 - 2010 DFG priority program SPP1392, "Integrative analysis of olfaction",

member of steering committee 2006 - 2009 DFG research group FOR 643, "Information processing in the olfactory

system; speaker 5 most important publications Hengl T, Kaneko H, Dauner K, Vocke K, Frings S, Möhrlen F. Molecular components of

signal amplification in olfactory sensory cilia. PNAS 2010;107:6052-7.

Funk K, Woitecki A, Franjic-Würtz C, Gensch T, Möhrlen F, Frings S. Modulation of chloride homeostasis by inflammatory mediators in dorsal root ganglion neurons. Mol Pain 2008;4:32.

Bradley J, Bönigk W, Yau K-W, Frings S. Calmodulin permanently associates with rat olfactory CNG channels under native conditions Nat Neurosci 2004;7:705-10.

Bradley J, Reuter D, Frings S. Facilitation of calmodulin-mediated odor adaptation by cAMP-gated channel subunits. Science 2001;294:2176-8.

Dzeja C, Hagen V, Kaupp UB, Frings S. Ca2+permeation in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels. EMBO J 1999;18:131-44.