C. Andrew Frank
Husband, dad to 3, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew. Fruit fly neuroscientist, geneticist. Professor, University of Iowa. He/him.
- Salmon croquettes for Hanukkah! 🕎
- Happy end-of-Thanksgiving weekend to everyone, except whoever vandalized nearly all the road signs in Eastern Iowa (I-80 W) with black spray paint. I made it home fine, but I bet those Yoo-hoos laughed all the way from Bettendorf to West Branch 🌽
- A red sky on Bluesky
- Two Graeme Davis UCSF alums publishing in @plosbiology.org in consecutive weeks. Congratulations on this fantastic work, Kira!! 🎉
- Congrats to Charlotte Taylor and team for dissecting how astrocyte networks integrate histamine to modulate adenosine over sleep and wake in unexpected ways: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @vincenttse.bsky.social @maxine.science @trishavv.bsky.social
- This is wild – an AI-generated, podcast-style bit about our recent @plosbiology.org paper produced by The Sanz Science Experience. I listened. The clip was conversational, down-to-earth, and accurate. It was easy for me to understand, but the paper is from my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--T...
- We have an uncorrected proof published for Bhagaban Mallik's study on Mitochondrial Complex I and how it regulates synapse function. You can find it in @plosbiology.org. I am so proud! H/T collaborators: Drs. Sajad Bhat and Xinnan Wang @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- We have proofs! And you know what that means. Assertive editing. A copy editor has flagged my name on an author line and wants me to spell out Carl Andrew Frank as my name instead of C. Andrew Frank. I am irrationally irritated by this 😆
- I think that societal advancement requires nonviolence.
- New email signature. I dropped the Associate. Now maybe I can drop the some of the pounds I gained as an Associate Professor😆
- Today I learned that you should not wash chicken.
- Grant reviewers are triaging Pope Francis’s tomb over font and kerning choices. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
- Drosophila neuroscience friends! Please help us to identify deserving Ph.D. students or recent Ph.D. graduates for the Elkins Memorial Lecture competition (CSHL, October 2025). Details below – send nominations by email to Troy Littleton (troy@mit.edu).
- Michelle Obama says she did not attend Donald Trump's second inauguration because she did not have anything to wear. Mad respect. www.cbsnews.com/news/michell...
- Fenton 2011-2025 Frank family member 2015-2025 Who rescued whom? 💕 🐾
- Standing up for Science in Iowa City
- Arial 11. Full justify with auto-hyphenation. Figure legends: Arial 9. And brief because nobody wants to read them. White space, yes. Walls of text, no. Four figures because you ran out of time? No. 20 figures because you want to impress with a mountain of data? Also, no.
- I wanted to share good news (which in normal times would be neutral). One of my lab's NIH grants was renewed for year 2 (March 1). That means that funding is not completely frozen. And it means there are people in Bethesda who believe in the mission of the NIH and research. And I thank them.
- If they cancel study section, can I get another dog? 🐕
- Hey Elon fans — your hero and his CEO are now trivializing the Holocaust with puns. Some were curious or unsure about “the context” of his salute. Well…amidst all that talk he is adding his own context.
- Don’t dress like a doofus, friends! 🥶
