“The integrin odyssey – a journey full of fundamental discoveries” by Fässler and Sonnenberg in @jcellsci.bsky.social, worth a read! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Journal of Cell Science is published by a not-for-profit charitable organisation (@biologists.bsky.social) that exists to benefit science, not shareholders. We provide Travelling Fellowships, Training Grants, support for ECRs and more. For details, visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

HCS Keystone Grants are now open for submission! Postdocs & clinical fellows are welcome to apply for this $4,000 award, which will provide funds to assist them in conducting research. 📅 Deadline: Oct 30, 2025 🔗 hcs.memberclicks.net/keystone-gra... #scicomm #STEMeducation

📢 Supporting the #nextgeneration of researchers, JCB offers the Hall & Gilula Travel Awards ✈️ that assist #undergraduates, #gradstudents, and early-career #postdocs in attending #CellBio2025 (Dec. 6-10)! Apply by October 17 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

New release of pmultiqc v0.0.34 🚀🎉. github.com/bigbio/pmult..., highlights: - A new contributor, Chris Bielow - MaxDIA support, thanks @maxquant.bsky.social pmultiqc.quantms.org/MaxDIA/multi... - DIANN reports way deeper thanks @vadim-demichev.bsky.social pmultiqc.quantms.org/DIANN/multiq...

We are excited to share our preprint describing DirectContacts2! Here we develop a machine learning model to discriminate between direct and indirect protein interactions. We use our model to construct a highly accurate wiring diagram of the human cell. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The benefits of disorder The presence of an intrinsically disordered region in a transcription factor enhances both target binding and search efficiency. buff.ly/Z8iCgls

OncoProExp: An Interactive Shiny Web Application for Comprehensive Cancer Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics Analysis www.sciencedirect.co... --- #proteomics #prot-paper

🔔🧪 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/...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Major release of @pride-ebi.bsky.social submission tool: - Smarter Java setup — bundled JRE - Reliable file transfer logging with Aspera, FTP. - Clearer instructions and troubleshooting in the README - Automated releases through GitHub Actions, so updates are consistent github.com/PRIDE-Archiv...

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #Reproducibility

ICYMI: A major advance in the understanding of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome @molecularmilan.bsky.social, Catherine Bui & team discover pathogenic variants in B3GALT6 impair connective tissue biomechanics, despite a compensation mechanism of glycosaminoglycan synthesis. buff.ly/ejpHmhh

🤔 Wondering to what extent the #ECM influences immune cell infiltration in tumors? In collaboration with @boehringerglobal.bsky.social, we applied #matrisomics to identify signatures distinguishing hot and cold #PDACs. Check out our preprint to learn what we found! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Annual summer lab outing at the Museum of Science and Industry! #LabFun

#NewPI, this is the last day to sign up to the @socdevbio.bsky.social New Faculty #BootCamp! Don't miss this incredible opportunity!

Are you ready to develop your bioinformatics skills? From #AlphaFold to microscopy data analysis, make 2026 the year you develop your knowledge with @training.ebi.embl.org and @events.embl.org. 👉 View the calendar: embl.org/about/info/c... #datascience #computationalbiology #lifescience 🧬🖥️

New in @jcellsci.bsky.social, Cancer Center member Alexandra Naba, PhD co-develops MatriCom, a web app + R package to decode cell–ECM communication from single-cell RNA-Seq data. Funded by the NIH and the NCI. #CancerResearch #CanSky Read more here: bit.ly/4m9aUS3

You can read Martin's latest @jcellsci.bsky.social essay on why anyone would want to be a scientist here: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

🚀 Release Day Alert! The brand-new #pmultiqc service is LIVE: www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/servic... 🎉 Instantly generate QC reports for #quantms, #DIANN, #MaxQuant & @pride-ebi.bsky.social datasets. Reviewing @pride-ebi.bsky.social quality data is super easy — all powered by pmultiqc: pmultiqc.quantms.org 🔥

Did you know that JCS publishes Tools & Resources articles? These articles describe a new tool, technique or resource that will have a significant impact on #cellbiology research. Tell people about your latest tool/resource and send your article our way! journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Thrilled to announce that Asantewaa Jones, undergraduate researcher in our lab, has been awarded a research grant from the UIC Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) to investigate the mechanisms of #ECM assembly! Congrats Asatewaa 🎉 #ProudPI

We have received wonderful feedback from authors who have benefited from Read & Publish agreements arranged by their institutional libraries. To read what authors have to say about fee-free Open Access publishing in Biology Open, visit bit.ly/4d59CDN.

In collaboration with Pam Kreeger's lab, we asked whether differences in the #ECM of the omentum and mesentery could explain the difference in prevalence of ovarian cancer metastasis to these sites. Read our preprint to learn what we found! #HGSOC #Matrisome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SurfacePlasmonResonanceSensing is a label-free method for measuring molecular interactions based on changes in refractive index at an interface. ⚡🪞📐Check out the newest #Primer here 👇!

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!!! 🏄‍♀️🌅⛵️🏊‍♂️🍻🍸

Are you interested in following scientists in the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN)? If so, this starter pack is for you! go.bsky.app/AXaDeng

Delighted to share that our work “Uridine Phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes” was published today in @emboreports.org, describing how neutrophil metabolism influences niche priming to support metastasis (1/14) www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🎊 Congratulations, Daiqing, for passing your preliminary exam with flying colors! #ProudPI #OnwardAndUpward

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

Thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social for featuring our article in your #Highlight section! MatriCom – the extracellular matrix reloaded url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... @matrisome.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social

📣SAVE THE DATE! #DGMB2026 will be held 15th-17th April 2026 in beautiful Heidelberg! More details to follow soon! We will also have a satellite meeting for #EarlyCareerResearchers before the main meeting, giving you a chance to meet other #ECRs and make new conference-friends! #matrixbiology

Excited to introduce openDVP — an open-source framework to bring deep visual proteomics to the broader research community! It includes: – A simplified fast-track pipeline for easy adoption – An AI-powered option for advanced image & spatial analysis 👉 BioRxiv: bit.ly/44SBuHu 👉 Github: bit.ly/4eR3IqK

😎 A sunny day to bid farewell to Thomas-Shadi Voges and welcome MSTP rotation student Ekeoma Uzoukwu to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social!

Rijuta Lamba, Alexandra Naba @nabalabuic.bsky.social, @valerioizzi.bsky.social and team present MatriCom, a single-cell RNA-sequencing data mining tool to infer cell–ECM interactions. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

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...

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....

Nothing better than seeing our latest review about #collageniv biosynthesis appearing online during the #collagen #GRC! Super nice #dreamteamwork with @collagenyoshi.bsky.social, Rachel Lennon, Johanna Myllyharju, Antti Salo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Delighted to welcome Kaden Todjo to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social for his HuBMAP-sponsored summer internship!

We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers, to help us shape the next 100 years and to keep offering a publishing experience that truly supports our community. Have your say at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/39QKVZY #Publishing #Community #HaveYourSay #Science #Communication

A great way to start the day 😃 @valerioizzi.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork

📢 IMPORTANT DATE ALLERT! Excited for the ASMB 2025 Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, Nov 16–19! Early Bird Registrations and Abstract submission deadline approaching—Don't forget to sign up first, then submit your abstract. See you there! #ASMB2025 #ASMBaltimore2025 #ECMatrix

Fibronectin Composition and Transglutaminase 2 Cross-linking Cooperatively Regulate Ovarian Cancer Cell Adhesion in ECM-Mimetic Constructs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653765v1

📣 Pre-print alert: Excited to have collaborated with Pam Kreeger and Kristyn Masters on this study showing that fibronectin composition and transglutaminase 2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate ovarian cancer cell adhesion in ECM-mimetic constructs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to Pat Caswell (@integrintraffic.bsky.social) & Alexandra Naba (@matrisome.bsky.social) who will be vice-chairs of the 2027 Fibronectin, Integrins & Related Molecules GRC and chairs of the 2029 meeting!

Snapshots of our departmental retreat celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Department of Physiology’s and Biophysics at UIC!

Honored to have been elected with Patrick Caswell @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social co-chair of the 2029 Gordon Research Conference on Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules! We have big shoes to fill: www.grc.org/fibronectin-..., but are up for the challenge!

Let the fun begin!