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.
Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones? www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...
Curious to read about the 'Physical Basis of Sarcomere Assembly'. Here are some thoughts from @friedrich-group.bsky.social and me - you might learn the difference between nematic and smectic order in biological assemblies pubs.aip.org/aip/bpr/arti...
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.
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
Stefan Luschnig@luschnig.bsky.social · 9mo agoJob 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
On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
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:
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
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...
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/...
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
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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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....
😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration
Benjamin Friedrich@friedrich-group.bsky.social · last yr.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
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...
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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 Society@fly-eds.bsky.social · last yr.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
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...
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 🤩
EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 2y ago📣 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
Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀
Christopher Thomas@ovarylab.bsky.social · 2y agoHad a fantastic time at the Fertility Conference 2025 in Liverpool! And thrilled to have been awarded the British Fertility Society Best Young Scientist Award! 🙌🏼
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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Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 2y agoDear Droso peeps, we re-announce the upcoming JEDI meeting that will take place at Château du Feÿ from June 3rd to 5th in 2025. You'll find a prelim program flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... We're hoping to gather about 45 of more or less young droso PI to reboot the community. -> Register Now!
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.
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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! 🔬🙌🏼
mitoXplorer goes single cell data - how similar are mitochondria between individual cells? Test it in your data.
Bianca Habermann@biancah0406.bsky.social · 2y agoNew year, new version of mitoXplorer 3.0 (mitoxplorer3.ibdm.univ-amu.fr) : mine your single-cell RNA-seq data from a mitochondrial perspective by creating cell-type specific pseudo-bulks or by looking at mitochondrial variability on single-cell level. Check it out at doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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...
