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 🥰

📣MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Abstract submission deadline for our annual meeting in Heidelberg is the 15th of February! Register NOW! See you all in April! Early career researchers, don't forget to register for the ECR premeeting! www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...

Did you discover the Extracellular Matrix Lab Repository that we just launched??? check it out, make your own additions and let us know your thoughts!!! Let's map the ECM world together!!! @amsocmatbio.bsky.social @matrixbiologie.bsky.social @mbsanz.bsky.social docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Our DCs have created graphical abstracts of their projects. We will share them here, on LinkedIn and on our website. Our first abstract is by Wendy Pérez Franco, investigating age related extra-skeletal complications in OI. Drop Wendy a message if you'd like to know more! #MSCA #OI #raredisease

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

While we update our website regarding #DGMB2026, you can find a list of confirmed speakers here! 👇 We are so happy to have them and already look forward to lots of exciting science! #ECRs, we'll have a pre-meeting together with the #EU-CHANGE network - more info coming soon! #ECM #MatrixBiology

There’s still some time left to submit your abstracts! 👇👇👇

Abstract deadline extended to 15th August!

#Heparansulfate aficionados should mark their calendars! 😍 Another #matrixbiology meeting you don‘t want to miss! #ECRs, you can apply for a travel grant to attend 👇 www.matrixbiologie.de/travel-grant...

Time for another #YoungInvestigatorSpotlight, before we all head into the weekend to enjoy [or escape] the sunshine! Meet doctoral researcher Sven Schmidt @nefiew.bsky.social. His publication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... reveals chondroprotective effects of PGE2 during MSC chondrogenesis.

We still have some TRAVEL GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR OUR EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS to attend this excellent meeting! APPLY NOW! 👇 www.matrixbiologie.de/travel-grant...

Time to meet another talented #ECR of our society in our #YoungInvestigatorSpotlight series 🥁 You can find @nourhan-hassan.bsky.social 's recent publication on injectable hydrogels that combine cancer therapy with tissue regeneration for osteosarcoma treatment here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🌈 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:

📣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

📢 You still have time to (write and) submit your abstract for a chance to present at this fantastic meeting! 😍 Deadline 27th June! #matrixbiology

Happy Monday! We're starting the week with another #YoungInvestigatorSpotlight - this time it's Leonie Ruths' profile & publication, which you can find here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106.... Well done to all the participants of this year's Young Investigator Award session! #matrixbiology

Abstract submission and registration for the 13th International Proteoglycan Meeting & the Annual Scientific Meeting of MBSANZ are now open! 📅Abstract deadline - 30/5/25 📅Early Bird deadline - 31/7/25 Register now to secure your spot! 👉 mbsanz2025.smalltalkevents.com.au #Proteoglycans #ECM

New week, new young investigator spotlight! This week it’s Dr. Jessica Sousa Onyeisi - find her recent publication on Syndecan-4 in breast cancer here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don’t miss this!! Sign up - it’s FREE - now 👇👇👇

📣Attention PhD students and post-docs! Attending the collagen GRC this year? Our society offers a limited number of travel grants for early career researchers: www.matrixbiologie.de/travel-grant... and don't forget to apply to the collagen GRC by June 8th! www.grc.org/collagen-con...

Let's start this week with a spotlight on @kristinabubb.bsky.social, this year's winner of our society's Young Investigator Award. You can find her recent publication on mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal ageing here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

March newsletter is coming soon. Until then...Reminder that we're always on the lookout for people to join our team & of course we're here to help spread good news, publications, positions or just help you answer questions. It's free! Just DM or email us at [email protected]

And of course, a massive “Thank you!” and “Well done!!” to the local organising committee, who have worked with the societies & friends from the nordic countries and belgium to make this a brilliant meeting! 🇧🇪🇫🇮🇸🇪🇩🇰@ccstorytime.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @nystromlab.bsky.social

A big THANK YOU to the local team who have worked very hard for this conference to run smoothly, you did a FANTASTIC job. @nystromlab.bsky.social

Congratulations to our poster prize winners, Xinyi Bao (Freiburg) and Fady Marcous (Cologne) and to Stefanie Schmid-Herbstritt (Freiburg) who won the prize by the AJP cell physiology! @nystromlab.bsky.social

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the Young Investigator Award: Kristina Bubb from Cologne! @nystromlab.bsky.social

We hope everyone is as excited as we are for this morning‘s YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD session 🎉 #MatrixNexus @themeshwork.bsky.social @nystromlab.bsky.social

Representing #TheMeshwork at the #matrixnexus conference in Freiburg!!! Thanks to the organisers for the support!!! Growing together!!! @matrixbiologie.bsky.social

Day 2 of #matrixnexus going strong here in Freiburg. Pretty amazing science coming out of the ECM community!! Anyone interested in doing rapid fire Q's with the speakers? Drop your question below!

Prof. Michael Kjær opens the @matrixbiologie.bsky.social German-Nordic Joint #ECMatrix meeting #MatrixNexus2025 with a talk on Collagen in the Soft Musculoskeletal Tissue: Relation to Mechanical Loading #TeamCollagen

The time has finally come! On my way to Freiburg for the #MatrixNexus2025 meeting 🤩 See you there! @matrixbiologie.bsky.social @themeshwork.bsky.social #ECMatrix www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...

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

TWO DAYS LEFT! SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW!

We are recruiting for a doctoral candidate for the Mac4Me network mac4me.eu formal advert soon but please forward to your networks. The project will focus on structural and functional analysis of GAGs in ageing and cancer. EU mobility rules apply

Discover why Freiburg is Germany’s most popular city and learn something new about the matrix. Great speaker lineup! Abstract submission deadline February 21. www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...

Always and forever advocating in #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience Keep breaking the glass ceilings!!!! Never back down!!!

Today we celebrate the #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience with a picture taken by our member, Alexandra Damerau.

Come and join us at our annual meeting in Freiburg! There is still time to submit your abstract! Deadline 21.02.! 👇 www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...