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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...

Information on the conference on vascular development and maintenance held in Bavaria, Germany in September 2026. Conference is held in a historical monastery on a lake in beautiful Bavaria. Registration is now open! Lots of great speakers that are leaders in the field. We will pick a large number of talks from abstracts to elevate early career investigators. Join us!

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SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature.

🗓️ Sept 2026
🌍 Bavaria, Germany

Registration open! Join us!
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An ape, a tea party — and the ability to imagine 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.

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...

GetHIRED! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - Application due Thursday, March 5 Ideal for Postdoctoral Researchers Academic Job Market Insight -Take stock of what you want -Know your options -Prepare outstanding job packet materials -Organize your research & chalk talks -Perfect your interview & avoid the pitfalls Course Features -Six asynchronous online modules -Virtual meetings with an experienced facilitator -Peer feedback, support, & expert advice Course Dates: April 14 – June 23, 2026 Course Fee: SDB Members: $499; Non-Members: $599 Deadline: March 5, 2025 Society for Developmental Biology logo QR Code for GetHIRED! website

#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 🥰

2026 Computational Cell Types Workshop Workshop in Seattle, WA to gain in-depth exposure to how Allen Institute defines "cell types" and walk away with direct applicable examples on using our free, open tools for their research

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

Work for us Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...

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...

A person holding out their arm while people line up on it. The hedline is: One mentor isn’t enough. Here’s how I built a network of mentors

"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

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Thank you @amrohussien.bsky.social

Thank you Yasset 🙏

It is with great sadness that I have learned of the unexpected passing of my postdoctoral mentor, Richard Hynes. Richard was far more than a mentor to me. He believed in me at a formative moment in… ... It is with great sadness that I have learned of the unexpected passing of my postdoctoral mentor, Richard Hynes. Richard was far more than a mentor to me. He believed in me at a formative moment in m...

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Cellular and molecular aspects of mechanobiology of the extracellular matrix

🧪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

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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
#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!