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Frank Schnorrer
@frankschnorrer.bsky.social
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Developmental & cell biologist @IBDM and @Centuri in Marseille. Studying muscle making and maintenance in Drosophila and in culture.
Passionate cyclist.
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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · Jul 10
SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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flybase.bsky.social
There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
FlyBase Update – October 2025 The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support: • European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group • U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups • Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience. For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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felixrico.bsky.social
We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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bpodaily.bsky.social
Visualising where different genes are switched on throughout a fly

📷 @jasperjanssens.bsky.social et al @steinaerts.bsky.social
@cbdresearch.bsky.social @frankschnorrer.bsky.social
@centuri-ls.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/5/14 with @DrJohnAnkers
May 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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nordenlab.bsky.social
The amazing tour de force of the great @lcferme.bsky.social is now out in its final form in @ScienceAdvances (not on Bluesky???). It was hard work and all the conceptual advance was her doing. Check it out: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Timely neurogenesis drives the transition from nematic to crystalline nuclear packing during retinal morphogenesis
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www.science.org
May 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration
friedrich-group.bsky.social Benjamin Friedrich @friedrich-group.bsky.social · Apr 6
Fully-funded PhD position at @poldresden.bsky.social in Dresden, Germany, to theoretically study sarcomere self-assembly in muscle cells, in collaboration with the experimental group of Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social

More information here:
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/friedrich
April 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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luschnig.bsky.social
Great Dispatch article by @tarafinegan.bsky.social on our new paper by @theajacobs.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social - thanks for condensing our findings so clearly and nicely!
Epithelial biology: Holding the corners together: shorturl.at/cMziC
@sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de
Epithelial biology: Holding the corners together
A new study reveals that the Drosophila follicular epithelium opens its permeability barrier to allow passage of yolk to the oocyte by relaxing, not actively pulling open, cell vertices. This work res...
www.cell.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Fly group leaders in Eastern Europe, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland/Austria, please step forward. The European Fly community needs your help. #Drosophila #EDRC
fly-eds.bsky.social European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Mar 18
European Drosophila Board election call for nominations. Join the EDB to represent and support Drosophila research in Europe! Five representatives will be elected for different regions. Check our election page for details:
europeandrosophilasociety.org/european-dro...
#Drosophila, #EDRC2025
A fly voting in the European Drosophila Board election
March 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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standupforscifr.bsky.social Stand Up For Science France @standupforscifr.bsky.social · Mar 4
Press release from Stand Up For Science France (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social)
Standing Up For Science in France In the face of Trump’s administration’s relentless attacks on democratic institutions, civil rights, science, public health agencies, environmental regulation, and climate data collection, and as universities and research institutions across Europe also come under increasing pressure, the French scientific community is taking action. On March 7, 2025, scientists, educators, students, and concerned citizens will march and rally in cities across France to defend science and the humanities as pillars of democracy. This mobilization is organized in solidarity with the "Stand Up For Science" movement in the US.
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Spatial transcriptomics in fly brain and body. Wonderful collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social led by @jasperjanssens.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social Nikolai Hecker & Gabriele Partel - look at mRNA patterns in muscles and brains spatialfly.aertslab.org
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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@biancah0406.bsky.social
cnrs.fr CNRS @cnrs.fr · Feb 4
#PodcastCNRS 🎧 Quels mécanismes sont impliqués dans la fonte musculaire lors d’une maladie ou en vieillissant ? Bianca Habermann, tente de répondre en observant les mitochondries, siège de la fabrication de notre énergie !

👉 smartlink.ausha.co/cnrs-qu-est-...
February 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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sarawickstrom.bsky.social
Interested in the cell biology of the nucleus? Join us for this unique exciting meeting that covers everything from nuclear biophysics and mechanics to signaling and evolution😍 amazing speaker list and more will be selected from abstracts 🤩
events.embl.org EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jan 23
📣 Join us for #EESNucleus 🧬

Explore the dynamic world of the nucleus at the new EMBO | EMBL Symposium. From nuclear mechanics to pathomechanisms, join the conversation shaping modern cell biology.

🗓️ 18 – 21 November 2025
📥 Submit your abstract by 26 August

👉 https://s.embl.org/ees25-07-bl
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀
ovarylab.bsky.social Christopher Thomas @ovarylab.bsky.social · Jan 12
Had a fantastic time at the Fertility Conference 2025 in Liverpool! And thrilled to have been awarded the British Fertility Society Best Young Scientist Award! 🙌🏼
January 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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nkonst4.bsky.social
Together with other JEDIs @michaelrera.bsky.social @drosostalis.bsky.social @ksiudeja.bsky.social @felsenberg.bsky.social and Gerit Linneweber, we are trying to restart this awesome initiative that was unfortunately silenced during COVID. More information here: flies-jedi.github.io Please repost!
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com
EDRC 2025 Alicante
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January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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bartdeplancke.bsky.social
Interesting study showing that Bicoid clusters in fly embryos preserve nuclear concentration info, guiding gene expression despite non-linear LLPS models. These clusters also act as high-fidelity sensors, key for fast, precise transcriptional regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Transcription factor clusters as information transfer agents
Live imaging shows that regulatory protein clusters may aid fast and precise delivery of transcriptional information to gene loci.
www.science.org
January 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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ovarylab.bsky.social
Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?

Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
January 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
mitoXplorer goes single cell data - how similar are mitochondria between individual cells? Test it in your data.
January 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM