Frank Schnorrer
@frankschnorrer.bsky.social
Developmental & cell biologist @IBDM and @Centuri in Marseille. Studying muscle making and maintenance in Drosophila and in culture.
Passionate cyclist.
Passionate cyclist.
Pinned
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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Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
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Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!
Exciting opportunity! Young Drosophila researchers do not wait to apply. Fly facilities at the Institute in Münster are outstanding! @fly-eds.bsky.social
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Exciting opportunity! Young Drosophila researchers do not wait to apply. Fly facilities at the Institute in Münster are outstanding! @fly-eds.bsky.social
On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
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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:
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
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:
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:
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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
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
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We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!
Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!
Excited to share our new preprint on bioRxiv: "Cell type specific allometry controls sex-differences in Drosophila body size"!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cell type specific allometry controls sex-differences in Drosophila body size
Species and sex-specific differences in organ size are fundamental features of animal biology, yet the mechanisms that drive these differences remain debated. Adult female Drosophila are larger than m...
www.biorxiv.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!
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
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...
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
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...
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
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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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
📷 @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
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
📷 @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
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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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May 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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....
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....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration
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
More information here:
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/friedrich
April 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration
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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: 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
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: shorturl.at/cMziC
@sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de
Fly group leaders in Eastern Europe, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland/Austria, please step forward. The European Fly community needs your help. #Drosophila #EDRC
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
europeandrosophilasociety.org/european-dro...
#Drosophila, #EDRC2025
March 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Fly group leaders in Eastern Europe, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland/Austria, please step forward. The European Fly community needs your help. #Drosophila #EDRC
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Press release from Stand Up For Science France (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social)
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...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#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-...
👉 smartlink.ausha.co/cnrs-qu-est-...
February 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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 🤩
📣 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
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
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 🤩
Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀
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
Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀
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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
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!
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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
edrc2025alicante.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
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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
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/...