Join the IHCIF Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA this October! Learn to design, validate & troubleshoot experiments with expert instructors and real lab experience. 📅 Application deadline: 6/16 💸 Financial aid is available 🔗 hcs.memberclicks.net/ihcif-course

🎓 Big day for the Naba Lab at UIC's commencement! Congratulations to Leanna Leverton (PhD), Fred Lee (MD/PhD + amazing national anthem performance), and Martin Davis (MD). So proud of all they’ve accomplished 👏 #ThisIsUIC #ProudPI

Excited to launch #MatriSpace: a framework for mining #SpatialTranscriptomic data with a focus on matrisome genes co-developed with @valerioizzi.bsky.social 🔗 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🔗 ShinyApp: matrinet.shinyapps.io/matrispace/ #ECM #Matrisome #MatriTool #OpenAccess

The newly redesigned #Matrisome Portal is now live: matrisome.org. Built to meet #ADA standards, the new site improves accessibility, usability, and overall experience for all. Big shout-out to Tali for leading this effort! Take a look and let us know what you think! #Accessibility #ADACompliance

What does it take to truly understand #cancer in all of its complexity? Delighted to share our Review in Cell "Cancer ecosystems: A dynamic interplay across scales" with Daniela Quail, where we propose a multi-scale framework connecting tumor ecology with physiology 🧪⚕️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Our newly redesigned lab website is now live: naba.lab.uic.edu Built to meet #ADA standards, the new site improves accessibility, usability, and overall experience for all visitors. Shout-out to Tali for leading this effort! Take a look and let us know what you think. #Accessibility #ADACompliance

Excited to serve guest-edit a Topical Collection for #JoVE focused on “Methods for #ECM Research in Development, Health, and Disease”! Interested in contributing and helping enhance #Reproducibility in science? Feel free to reach out or submit an abstract here: app.jove.com/methods-coll...

Today I would like to share a publication that is particularly meaningful to me. Our tribute to my late mentor, Richard Hynes, has just been published in Matrix Biology. I hope you will take a moment to read and celebrate the legacy of an extraordinary scientist and mentor. doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Single-cell Proteomics🔥 #MarfanSyndrome Aortic Root Fbn1 C1041G/+🐭 2.4k proteins 3.5k cells 487 proteins/cell👈 7 Smooth Muscle Cell subtypes Prss2, Lrp1 as modulated SMC markers vs scRNAseq +SeqIF (21 Ab) #AortaEd Sarah Parker lab #MolCellProteomics 2026 www.mcponline.org/article/S153...

📢 Upcoming webinar! 🔬 What therapies can tell us about fibrosis @nystromlab.bsky.social (University of Freiburg) on how therapies and rare skin diseases reveal mechanisms of fibrosis + ECM remodeling 🗓 Mar 25, 2026 ⏰ 3pm CET | 10am NY 💻 Zoom Register ⬇️ forms.gle/ryWj3AwxeLSP...

Excited to have contributed to this review on #BloodProteomics: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congrats to first author Asier Larrea Sebal and many thanks to @ypriverol.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute! #Proteomics #BigData #OpenScience #Reproducibility

What is coming for #SDRF is huge; we have managed in 20 templates most of the relevant experimental design in #proteomics, including non-MS; #crosslinking, #metaproteomics (soil, water, human gut), DIA/DDA; clinical metadata, oncology proteomics; and single cell #SCP github.com/bigbio/sdrf-...

Delighted to welcome our newest postdoc, Krista Habing, to the lab! Krista will develop novel proteomics technology to gain insights into the #ECM. She will also explore the roles of SNED1 in craniofacial development. Welcome Krista! I look forward to the many discoveries we'll make together 👩‍🔬

🎊 Big congratulations to Leanna Leverton on successfully defending her PhD dissertation! It has been a pleasure and a privilege to watch her grow as a researcher. Her hard work, curiosity, and persistence led to exciting discoveries about the #ECM and a fantastic defense! Congrats Dr. Leverton 🎓

We’re collaborating with analysis tool providers and instrument vendors to standardize file formats for every @pride-ebi.bsky.social submission: github.com/PRIDE-Archiv... Want your voice heard? Share your feedback by opening an issue on the guidelines. github.com/PRIDE-Archiv... or PR.

Registration for #MBE2026 is now open! Join us in Oulu 🇫🇮 for the flagship European meeting dedicated to fundamental #ECM research. ECRs and trainees, this is a unique chance to connect with leaders in the field, present your work, gain visibility, and build your network! More at www.mbe2026.org

Join us for another exciting seminar on February 26th! 🔬 This month's speakers Dr. Matt Jones and his PhD student Nikita Mildren will cover ECM adhesion across the cell cycle! Register by scanning the QR code or via the link: forms.gle/bkwmfwSsuKrt...

🚨 SAVE-THE-DATE 🚨 SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature. 🗓️ Sept 2026 🌍 Bavaria, Germany Registration open! Join us! vwfb.de/start/regist...

The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our closest living relatives can do it too. n.pr/46jw3mL

🎉The ASMB Image Contest is back! Share your best matrix‑focused images! 🏆 Get featured and present your work at e‑Symposium 💸 Discount for a future ASMB meeting 🎁 First 10 entries get an ASMB tumbler! 📅 Deadline: May 31, 2026 👉 Details & submission: www.asmb.net/image-contest

SDRF 1.1 is almost here 🎉 Big format & tooling updates ahead. Thanks to the community! We’ll keep refining together. One key question just opened: should we remove prefixes for samples, data files & factor values? Join the discussion 👉 github.com/bigbio/prote... or let me know here.

Thank you @uicancercenter.bsky.social for featuring our work in collaboration with Dr. Pamela Kreeger now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! cancer.uillinois.edu/news/naba-is...

#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired

New year, fresh start for our webinar series 🥳 January 27th, 3pm CET (9am NY) we are excited to bring you "Collagens Across Evolution: Structure and Function" 🧬 Invited speakers: Dr. Abhishek Jalan & Dr. Debora Monego. Let's go to the structural side 🥰

Applications are open for the 2026 Computational Cell Types Workshop! 🧠📈 Join us on May 11-14 for this hackathon-style event bringing together researchers interested in exploring transcriptomic datasets, developing tools, and connecting with peers. https://bit.ly/3LFBAN3

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors." One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/3Zfm0e8 #NationalMentoringMonth

I am very much looking forward to participating in the 2026 #ECM Pharmacology Congress! ecm-congress.org

🧪Our special issue "𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱" (Curr Opin Biomed Eng, Vol.37 Mar 2026) is out 🎉 🔬Thanks to all authors, may this spark cross‑disciplinary collaboration! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Mechanobiology #ECMatrix #Biomaterials

Last post before taking off for a 2-week vacation! I am thrilled to share that my lab has joined the @geneontology.bsky.social consortium as curator of all things #ECM and has contributed to the latest GO paper, now published in @narjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...! #Matrisome #MatriGO

Major update for unilectin.unige.ch with now more than 2800 3D-structures with annotation, literature and details of interaction!! HumanLectome also up to date. Thanks to Boris Schnider at @sib.swiss and @glycoexpasy.bsky.social for super work. More exciting news soon with LectomeXplore upgrade

Our paper in collaboration with Pam Kreeger, "Comparative proteomic analysis of the #ECM of the human omentum and mesentery, the main sites of #HGSOC metastasis", is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! You can read it in #openaccess at doi.org/10.1016/j.is... 🎊 Congrats to all co-authors!

🎄🧬 Wrapping up the year the Meshwork way! Our Nov/Dec newsletter is live with ECM highlights, opportunities, upcoming conferences + our growing lab repository — all in one place🧬🧵 (1/2)

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)! GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging. Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations. 👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at the EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in #Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026. Deadline: 20 December 2025 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton#cytoskeleton#research#Paris#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #meeting 🧪

We are thrilled to welcome Prakrti to our lab. Prakrti is a 1st-year undergraduate student at the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors College.As an aspiring oncologist, she will study the role of SNED1 in breast cancer metastasis. Welcome Prakrti!

Microenvironment-specific modulation of macrophage function and tumour progression by ADAMTS1 through Syndecan-4 shedding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.690963v1

🔬Be sure not to miss our last seminar of the year! Featuring short talks by @megtriesscience.bsky.social and members of the Nottis GlycoAnalytics Hub, followed by keynote speaker @merrylabnotts.bsky.social with an exciting talk on glycosaminoglycan! 📅 December 9 ⏲️2pm (GMT), 3pm (CET), 9am (EST).

We are delighted to welcome Tali to our lab!

In their Tools and Resources article, Nina Grishchenko, Michael Olson and colleagues present Toogle-Untoogle, a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We are thrilled to announce our 2026 election results. Olga Vitek has been elected to serve as US HUPO's President-Elect, Devin Schweppe as Secretary, and Sasha Singh and Hanno Steen were elected to serve as Members-At-Large on our Board of Directors. Congratulations to all! 🌟 #USHUPO

📣 Publication alert: Our paper, “A guide to building the matrisome interactome: from computational predictions to experimental validation” is now published in @febsj.bsky.social! 📄 The paper is available in #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.1111/febs... #ECM #Matrisome #Interactome #SystemsBiology

While several of us attended #ASMB2025, Asantewaa Jones, senior in the lab, presented her undergraduate research project at the UIC Honors College Fall Research Symposium! I could not be prouder of what she has accomplished in our lab! #ProudPI #ThisIsUIC

🎬 That's a wrap! The Naba lab had a great time at the meeting of the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social #ASMB2025. Icing on the cake: graduate students Daiqing Chen and Leanna Leverton both won best poster presenter awards 🏆 We are already looking forward to #ASMB2027 #ProudPI #HappyLab

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric? go.nature.com/3JUWNSs

Very proud of our postdocs Dharma Pally and Aman Bains for receiving 🏆 travel awards from @histochemicalsoc.bsky.social to present their work at #ASMB2025!

Let the fun begin! #ASMB2025 @amsocmatbio.bsky.social