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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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...

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

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...

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 10/11/2025

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.

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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!

AI-generated image of a lightsaber-wielding figure conquering Portugal.

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Exciting opportunity! Young Drosophila researchers do not wait to apply. Fly facilities at the Institute in Münster are outstanding! @fly-eds.bsky.social

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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:

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Felix Rico @felixrico.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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...

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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...

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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....

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Timely neurogenesis drives the transition from nematic to crystalline nuclear packing during retinal morphogenesis

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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....

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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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François Leulier @francoisleulier.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

💪🇺🇸🇫🇷

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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...

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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 🤩

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀

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Nikos Konstantinides @nkonst4.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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 | Home

A simple website based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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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EDRC 2025 Alicante

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Bart Deplancke @bartdeplancke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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/...

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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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Christopher Thomas @ovarylab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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! 🔬🙌🏼

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

mitoXplorer goes single cell data - how similar are mitochondria between individual cells? Test it in your data.

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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...

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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

📣Exciting meeting ahead! Join us at Shaping Life 3 in beautiful Cassis next June! www.atoutcom.com/shaping-life/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social @guignardlab.bsky.social @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social @laghalab.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social

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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Want to contribute shaping the French🇫🇷 Dev Bio community? Join us @sfbd.bsky.social ! Apply by november 27th

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Happy to work under blue sky every day at our beautiful campus in Marseille Luminy AND to be finally joining BlueSky. Looking forward to reconnect to you all.

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