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

🎉 A big milestone for the #MatrisomeProject! Congratulations to the Özbek group at @embl.org for the release of the matrisome of the sea anemone in @elife.bsky.social, the 10th dataset powered by the @matrisome.bsky.social pipeline! Here’s to the power of #OpenScience 🚀 🔬 matrisome.org

Applications for the 2026 May Institute at the Barnett Institute will open soon! This two-week program offers hands-on training, lectures, and networking, a great opportunity to learn from and connect with leaders in the field. Sign up for our mailing list to stay updated: lnkd.in/eu4q2pEb

2 weeks to go until the meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology @amsocmatbio.bsky.social. The Naba lab is ready and excited 🤓 www.asmb.net/biennial-mee...

The ECM is no longer in the back seat when it comes to development. Check out our special issue "Dynamics of the extracellular matrix in development, cell physiology and disease" with 8 selected articles to learn more: A 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Excited to have contributed with James Considine from my lab to this exciting work from Pam Kreeger's lab that showed that fibronectin composition and TGM2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate #HGSOC cell adhesion. The paper is now out in Acta Biomaterialia! Have a look: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

Can aging be stopped, or even reversed? ⏳ The concept sounds like science fiction, but a team led by UIC associate professor of pharmacology and regenerative medicine Sandra Pinho found that a specific protein can rejuvenate blood and immune system cells: https://ow.ly/2Xv950XjfiT

Had a great day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Caught up with my TME colleagues, learned more about exciting proteomics work from @yingge2121.bsky.social and @liresearch.bsky.social, and saw the beautiful artwork in the memory of one of the greatest TME researchers and mentor, Patti Keely!

Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center Receives Comprehensive Cancer Center Designation and Funding from National Cancer Institute Designation places Mount Sinai among top one percent of cancer centers nationwide www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

Our most recent study shows that stem cells in Schmidtea mediterranea do not rely on physical contacts or fixed structures to maintain their identity and regenerative potential. @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🚨 Breaking News | UVA Becomes 5th University to Reject Trump Higher Ed Compact The university is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." https://bit.ly/47tWIOl #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

Introducing Ada: the new AI assistant from EMBL-EBI Training. We created our training chatbot, Ada, to make it easier and more engaging for users to find the right on-demand training resources from our broad catalogue of training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ada #AdaLovelaceDay #bioinformatics 🧬🖥️

We are highlighting Arnoud Sonnenberg, a distinguished cell biologist who served as a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor for 19 years, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @asonnenberg.bsky.social

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Nature’s 2025 PhD survey asked doctoral candidates worldwide what advice they would give to someone considering a similar degree. Respondents gave advice on choosing supervisors, managing mental health, and surviving academic culture. #Academicsky 🧪

October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, and we invite you to pre-register for a Breast Cancer Screening Day on October 8. Please call 312-610-0463 to pre-register. Screening time and location will be confirmed upon registration. More information here: bit.ly/46aiVka