Our November #TheMeshwork seminar dives into proteomics & proteolytic ECM remodeling in cardiovascular pathologies 🫀Featuring Dr. Salvatore Santamaria and PhD students Tina Burkhard & Alex Minns @uniofsurrey.bsky.social 📅 Nov 25 | ⏰ 1 PM UK 🔗 Register: forms.gle/EY6aiWgsS3Rb...

Manuscript now accepted! 🥳 @steffendanielle.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @abigailmackey1.bsky.social @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social Spatially distinct ECM-producing fibroblasts and myonuclei orchestrate early adaptation to mechanical loading in the human muscle-tendon unit

🧬 Join us for the 1st 2025-2026 #TheMeshworkTalk! Dr. @johannaienglund.bsky.social (University of Helsinki) will dive into how basement membrane influences breast cancer onset and progression 💜 📅 Oct 22 🕣 8:30 ET | 14:30 CET Register with the QR code or click here: t.co/D4zVgsrObf

🚨submissions open🚨 I’m guest editing at #Jove. If you have cool methods 🧫🧪🔬of biomechanical studies related to cell differentiation👩🏻‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 Please submit your work😜👇🏽This is great opportunity to showcase your work & help with #reproducibility in #science 🙌🏼 We’d ♥️to see it 🎥📄 app.jove.com/methods-coll...

OMG 😱 a true game changer for biology! Menstruation is a natural miracle of tissue regeneration. Amazing biology to come!

Looking for a PhD ? Don’t miss ⬇️ 12 PhDs available in the REMOD-HEALING European doctoral network, funded by Horizon Europe's MCSA-DN program, in Europe and Costa Rica ! www.euraxess.fr/jobs/375945 @themeshwork.bsky.social @matrixbiologie.bsky.social #ECM #collagen #WoundHealing #proteases

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Study in AJP-Heart and Circ is largest prospective CMR study to assess clinical & subclinical changes in young adult offspring of #hypertensive #pregnancy https://ow.ly/fpCY50X4hLA ➡️ Submit to our OPEN Call for Papers on #WomensHealth & #Cardiovascular Disease https://ow.ly/gUif50X4hCz

🎉 Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025! 🎉 At ASMB, we’re celebrating the innovators of tomorrow — our incredible PhD students & postdocs who are driving discovery every day. 👉ASMB members, want to be featured?: We are still accepting Submissions! #ASMBPAW2025 #ASMBTrainees #ECMatrix

Really excited to tell you about our paper just out in the journal Matrix Biology. @erinboland.bsky.social set out to investigate what the impact of basement membrane defects are on adult heart function/biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the Dyer Lab (Dr @douglaspdyer.bsky.social) as a Research Associate in Neuro-Immunology & Extracellular Matrix Biology (ImmunoMatrix). 🔬 Focus: chemokines, glycocalyx & inflammatory disease 📍 Cutting-edge biochem, biophysics & in vivo biology Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/jEQ6G

🔔🧪 Call for Papers – #Mechanobiology of the #ExtracellularMatrix 🧬🛠️ Excited to serve as Guest Editor — together with Jacopo di Russo and Jennifer Young — of a new 𝐧𝐩𝐣 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 Collection on “Mechanobiology of the ECM”. Deadline: 14 May 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...

📣Faculty Position Opening! 👩🏾‍🔬An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Professor position in aging research at @UMontreal 🗓️Application deadline 15 September #FacultyJobs #CdnSci #Research #Aging medicinoxy.com/assistant-pr...

Breaking!!!! A short break from vacation just because we couldn't sit on these news!!! Position announcements and latest publications from our members!!! Enjoy summer everybody!!! 🏄‍♀️🌅⛵️🏊‍♂️🍻🍸

Data drop! We just released an updated list of anti-ECM antibodies curated from the #HumanBioMolecularAtlasProgram Organ Mapping Antibody Panels #OMAP and the 9th release of the Human Reference Atlas #HRA. Check it out: sites.google.com/uic.edu/matr...

"My" latest review is online now. We need your creativity! 😎 👇👇👇 Collagen Biosynthesis and Its Molecular Ensemble: What Remains Unexplored | Biochemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Back home after a wonderful week co chairing and presenting my work on maternal valve remodeling at the Collagen GRS/GRC! I must admit that as a younger scientist I’ve been struggling with the uncertainty of the future but I’ve left the meeting feeling motivated and invigorated.

Perfect timing on the last day of the 2025 #Collagen Gordon Research Conference! Our paper, in collaboration with @valerioizzi.bsky.social describing #MatriCom, a tool to infer ECM communication systems from scRNA-Seq datasets, is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

🌴 The pipettes are parked, the data can wait — it’s time for ☀️🏄‍♀️ and science naps! Our July newsletter features ECM summer vibes, cool papers, a poll, a lab introduction and a researcher spotlight that’ll warm your heart @perony.bsky.social Read it before we hit snooze 😎 @amsocmatbio.bsky.social

T-4 DAYS! The JULY 11 #DEADLINE for #EarlyBirdRegistration, #abstract and #TravelAward submission for the 2025 ASMB Biennial Meeting is coming fast!!! Lock in your spot at this must-attend event! Find all info at: asmb.net/biennial-mee... #ASMB2025 #ECMatrix #ASMBaltimore2025

📢SOUND THE ALARM 📢 #Deadline #Extended until July 11 2025 💸 #Register early and save 📨Submit your #abstract 🧬 Showcase your work 🔗www. ASMB.net 📍 Don’t miss this opportunity to join us. #ASMB2025!

Final FREE online seminar before the summer vacation!!!! Tomorrow, 3pm CET via Zoom!!! Register now!!! More info below and on our website!!!

Our final online seminar of the season is just around the corner!!! Save the date: June 25, 3pm CET. Register for FREE now and join us next week to discuss all things Hyaluronan in Medicine with Dr Laura Alaniz!!! Follow the QR code or click here: forms.gle/iSjnrLBVZmkD... @amsocmatbio.bsky.social

This month for our online seminar series we are joined by Dr Laura Alaniz to discuss all things Hyaluronan! From its essential role in tissue structure to cutting-edge therapeutic applications, hyaluronan is far more than filler 👄 June 25th, 3PM CET / 9AM NY. Registration: forms.gle/CW9T1RGQMDVP...

💕 6 tools for illustrating your scientific works! (FREE) 👉Read my Article on Medium here: medium.com/@vespinozag/... #genomic #chemistry #Academic #DataVisualization #postdoc #MachineLearning #DataScience #Bioinformatics #PhD #health #Python #Statistics #Programing #neuroscience #biology #science

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

Estrogen attenuates stiffness-driven fibrotic signaling via transcriptional regulation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40364520/

🌈 Happy Pride Month! In our June newsletter, we celebrate LGBTQ+ voices / communities in STEM, spotlight the @matrixbiologie.bsky.social young investigator winner @kristinabubb.bsky.social and share new ECM research + upcoming events. The ECM is never just a scaffold—it’s a story. 🧬 📖 Read now:

#Science Bluesky, do your thing: We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas. Can you indicate some names to me?

How does EV–vascular cell communication drive dynamic changes in atherosclerotic plaques? www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

We're very excited about this work! Using steroid metabolome profiling we found a unique hormone signature that could be used as a potential non-invasive diagnostic test for endometriosis. Please check out and share the preprint #endometriosis www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Friendly reminder that we have a smash talk coming up this Wednesday, 3pm CET with @tranejoan.bsky.social !!! Register now for FREE to secure your spot: forms.gle/KKYZjEv1DJFf...

A reminder to all of you, especially collagen peeps out there, that @tranejoan.bsky.social will join us next week for a much-anticipated seminar on (circadian) collagen homeostasis!!! Register now for FREE : forms.gle/WfoYTjskw3zd... @amsocmatbio.bsky.social @matrixbiologie.bsky.social

We’re excited to share the first publication from our lab, now out in @EMBOPress! @shayma-a.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Using live imaging in the mouse embryo, we tracked how heart progenitors migrate and assemble into the heart tube.

This month we are bringing the circadian rhythm in focus with a talk by @tranejoan.bsky.social on "(Circadian) control of collagen homeostasis – new paradigms and tools" Register now and don't miss a stimulating talk with all the latest updates from the expert herself: forms.gle/peLbQr5AiF2R...

💻 Apply to our beginner-friendly Boston Bioimage Analysis Course! Get started with Python and learn to analyze fluorescence microscopy images — no coding experience required! Fee waivers available thanks to funding from @bioimagingna.bsky.social! 🗓️ Apply June 1st! iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/

Don't forget to #JOIN us #TOMORROW for an exciting #Esymposium about Similarities and Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender. When? Thursday, May 8; 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST #REGISTER 👉 asmb.net/e-symposia

Hey ECM lovers! Is there anyone out there who uses Alexa Fluor 488 hydrazide? I have some mechanistic questions that I’d love to chat about! #ECM #elastin #fluorescence

May is here, flowers are blooming and we have sooo much to share with you!!!! Scroll through our newsletter for a recap of our latest talk, hot off the press papers, career opportunities, a spotlight interview and upcoming events. All in one place!!!

Our literature review ⏰ that accompanies the BSMB #ECR Award is now out in The International Journal of Experimental Pathology. Well done to Ask Møbjerg and Sara Dietz Pedersen for putting it together! 💪 #tendon #translationalmedicine #circadianclock onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As we are preparing our April newsletter, we would like to invite all of you to DM us with any upcoming conferences/meetings/seminars you are organising or your publications to amplify your reach!!! It is totally free!!! Help us keep the community informed and up to date!!!

Come check out the amazing programs! Trainees - this is a great time to network and connect with other collagen researchers from across the globe ☺️ The GRS still has lots of poster slots open!

Curious about collagen?? There is an amazing program for the Collagen Gordon in New Hampshire this year. We have ample speaker slots reserved for abstract submissions. Come and join us! www.grc.org/collagen-con... July 6 - 11, 2025 www.grc.org/collagen-grs... July 5 - 6, 2025 Doug,Rachel,Alex

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Thinking you are ready to go from bench to bedside? Are you looking for some industry insight? We have your back!!! Our first industry talk is here with 3DBioFibR's Director of Business Dev, G. Chowdhry!!! April 24, 3pm CET / 9am EST. Register now: forms.gle/LoJvmdkyjH9w...

🥳🚨🚨🚨Happy Monday! First publication from the lab is out! My PhD student Md Al Azim reviewed the complexity of ECM, its receptors and their role in cancer progression and therapeutic interventions! We thank Ryan Petrie for his valuable input,our reviewers and Matrix Biology for publishing our work!

It's been a long time coming... March newsletter is here!!! Interviews w/ Karan Chowdry, 3DBiofibR Director of Business Dev. & G. Pantelopulos co-organiser of Collagen GRS along with @mghnmrtn.bsky.social, info on upcoming GRC's , our April online talk, new papers out and more!

Anyone attending the ECM Nexus Joint Meeting of the German, Danish and Finnish Societies for Matrix Biology in Freiburg??? Let's catch up!!! Find us in poster #32!!! @matrixbiologie.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @ccstorytime.bsky.social @nystromlab.bsky.social #ECMnexus

✨Huge thanks to everyone joined yesterday's "Proteomics for ECM"💥Special shoutout to Drs. C. Clift & @rachelcahalane.bsky.social for their inspiring presentations on proteomics & ECM research 🙌 Stay tuned for more events from The Meshwork! #ECM #Proteomics #MassSpec #TheMeshwork

Proteomics for ECM session with @rachelcahalane.bsky.social and Cassandra Clift is just around the corner!!! Not registered yet??? No worries!!! Follow the link and book your place now: forms.gle/iavHAj5J9PHW...