Missing our emails? 👀 Make sure to check your spam/junk folder and mark The Meshwork as a safe sender so you never miss updates, opportunities, and events! Stay connected 💡

a woman sitting at a desk with the words " this is a safe space " written below her

ALT: a woman sitting at a desk with the words " this is a safe space " written below her

media.tenor.com

Our #JuniorPI feature for #ASMB2025 spotlights @tranejoan.bsky.social from @officialuom.bsky.social, whose work explores collagen homeostasis in fibrosis and repair🔬 She is also co‑chair of ASMB Outreach, strengthening community engagement.🎥-https://youtu.be/abjDOI39WJY @themeshwork.bsky.social

Dr. Joan Chang, Junior PI

YouTube video by ASMB - American Society for Matrix Biology

youtu.be

👋Happy Thursday! Meet @collagenyoshi.bsky.social an expert in ER‑driven collagen biosynthesis. His work maps the molecular ensemble that guides collagen production and ECM quality. 🧬 Get to know him more through our junior PI #ASMB2025 interview series: youtu.be/x1ULHXkrnIM

Dr. Yoshi Ishikawa, Junior PI

YouTube video by ASMB - American Society for Matrix Biology

youtu.be

Up next in our #ASMB2025 series: Lynn Y. Sakai, PhD, former ASMB President and pioneer in connective tissue research. From discovering fibrillin‑1 to defining the genetics of Marfan syndrome, her impact is monumental. 🎥https://youtu.be/5fO9OMNJWWM?si=7ZtbF22_qRqqV5M1

Next up: Douglas Gould, PhD 👁️ 2026 President-elect of the ASMB and Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. His work links ECM biology to vision and disease. ✨ Watch: youtu.be/9S3qPxUEBgg #MEETTHEPRESIDENTS #ECM #MATRIXBIOLOGY

Meet Our Presidents: Doug Gould

YouTube video by ASMB - American Society for Matrix Biology

youtu.be

Meet Thomas H. Barker, PhD 🔬 2026 President of the American Society for Matrix Biology and Professor at the University of Virginia. His lab studies ECM signaling, repair, fibrosis, and regeneration. 👀 Watch his full #ASMB2025 interview youtu.be/Dw_BVGWkI94 #MEETTHEPRESIDENTS #ECM #MATRIXBIOLOGY

Meet Our Presidents: Tom Barker

YouTube video by ASMB - American Society for Matrix Biology

youtu.be

Say hello to Ambra Pozzi, PhD 🧬 Past President of the #ASMB, whose leadership helped shape the community we celebrate in our #ASMB2025 interview series. 🎥 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/7Ys0rsieCiE #MEETTHEPRESIDENTS #ECM #MATRIXBIOLOGY

Meet Our Presidents: Ambra Pozzi

YouTube video by ASMB - American Society for Matrix Biology

youtu.be

🎄🧬 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)

🔬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).

New in JHVS V2I1: Daria Evensen et al. compare six osteogenic media to evaluate their ability to induce aortic valve calcification in vitro using #VICs and #MSCs. The study highlights the complexity of modeling #CAVD and choosing the right conditions. 🔗 shorturl.at/Yqp4Q #heartvalve #JHVS

🔬 Glycobiology geeks — this one’s for you! “Beyond Proteins: Exploring the Hidden World of Glycans” With @merrylabnotts.bsky.social + @megtriesscience.bsky.social 📅 December 9 ⏲️ 2pm (GMT), 3pm (CET), 9am (EST) Don't miss out!! @amsocmatbio.bsky.social

The #ASMB2025 @amsocmatbio.bsky.social biennial meeting just kicked-off!!! Keep an eye out for #TheMeshwork team (@mghnmrtn.bsky.social and George representing) Fun stuff incoming!!! If u need to contact us: linktr.ee/themeshwork

Our November #TheMeshwork seminar dives into proteomics & proteolytic ECM remodeling in cardiovascular pathologies 🫀Featuring Dr. Salvatore Santamaria and PhD students Tina Burkhard & Alex Minns @uniofsurrey.bsky.social 📅 Nov 25 | ⏰ 1 PM UK 🔗 Register: forms.gle/EY6aiWgsS3Rb...

Manuscript now accepted! 🥳 @steffendanielle.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @abigailmackey1.bsky.social @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social Spatially distinct ECM-producing fibroblasts and myonuclei orchestrate early adaptation to mechanical loading in the human muscle-tendon unit

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Spatially distinct ECM-producing fibroblasts and myonuclei orchestrate early adaptation to mechanical loading in the human muscle-tendon unit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672815v1

🧬 Join us for the 1st 2025-2026 #TheMeshworkTalk! Dr. @johannaienglund.bsky.social (University of Helsinki) will dive into how basement membrane influences breast cancer onset and progression 💜 📅 Oct 22 🕣 8:30 ET | 14:30 CET Register with the QR code or click here: t.co/D4zVgsrObf

🚨submissions open🚨 I’m guest editing at #Jove. If you have cool methods 🧫🧪🔬of biomechanical studies related to cell differentiation👩🏻‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 Please submit your work😜👇🏽This is great opportunity to showcase your work & help with #reproducibility in #science 🙌🏼 We’d ♥️to see it 🎥📄 app.jove.com/methods-coll...

OMG 😱 a true game changer for biology! Menstruation is a natural miracle of tissue regeneration. Amazing biology to come!

Çağrı Çevrim@cagricevrim.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

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

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Study in AJP-Heart and Circ is largest prospective CMR study to assess clinical & subclinical changes in young adult offspring of #hypertensive #pregnancy https://ow.ly/fpCY50X4hLA ➡️ Submit to our OPEN Call for Papers on #WomensHealth & #Cardiovascular Disease https://ow.ly/gUif50X4hCz

🎉 Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025! 🎉 At ASMB, we’re celebrating the innovators of tomorrow — our incredible PhD students & postdocs who are driving discovery every day. 👉ASMB members, want to be featured?: We are still accepting Submissions! #ASMBPAW2025 #ASMBTrainees #ECMatrix

Really excited to tell you about our paper just out in the journal Matrix Biology. @erinboland.bsky.social set out to investigate what the impact of basement membrane defects are on adult heart function/biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Biomechanical and compositional basement membrane defects due to a Col4a1 mutation affect cardiac morphology and function

Collagen IV is a major constituent of basement membranes and mutations in the genes COL4A1 and COL4A2 present clinically as a variable, multi-system d…

sciencedirect.com

Join the Dyer Lab (Dr @douglaspdyer.bsky.social) as a Research Associate in Neuro-Immunology & Extracellular Matrix Biology (ImmunoMatrix). 🔬 Focus: chemokines, glycocalyx & inflammatory disease 📍 Cutting-edge biochem, biophysics & in vivo biology Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/jEQ6G

🔔🧪 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/...

Mechanobiology of the Extracellular Matrix

This Collection aims to highlight fundamental and translational advances in ECM mechanobiology.

nature.com

📣Faculty Position Opening! 👩🏾‍🔬An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Professor position in aging research at @UMontreal 🗓️Application deadline 15 September #FacultyJobs #CdnSci #Research #Aging medicinoxy.com/assistant-pr...

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!!! 🏄‍♀️🌅⛵️🏊‍♂️🍻🍸

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...

"My" latest review is online now. We need your creativity! 😎 👇👇👇 Collagen Biosynthesis and Its Molecular Ensemble: What Remains Unexplored | Biochemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Collagen Biosynthesis and Its Molecular Ensemble: What Remains Unexplored

Collagen embodies an intriguing paradox in protein biology. Despite being one of the most abundant protein superfamilies in vertebrates and having a seemingly simple structural organization, its biosy...

pubs.acs.org

Back home after a wonderful week co chairing and presenting my work on maternal valve remodeling at the Collagen GRS/GRC! I must admit that as a younger scientist I’ve been struggling with the uncertainty of the future but I’ve left the meeting feeling motivated and invigorated.

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....

MatriCom, a single-cell RNA-sequencing data mining tool to infer cell–extracellular matrix interactions

Highlighted Article: MatriCom is a web application devised to mine single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets to infer extracellular matrix (ECM)–ECM and cell–ECM communication systems across cell population...

doi.org