Joan Chang
@tranejoan.bsky.social
Chasing the👩🏻🔬dream: HKG-EDI-LDN-CPH-RDU-MAN| Matrix/⏰ biology | Disease microenvironment | MRC CDA Fellow @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @mcf-uom.bsky.social, University of Manchester | Mass Spec aficionado
The newly minted #RupertTimpl awardee, James Conway, on integrin phosphorylation and presenting really cool native ECM spot array to look at age-related changes in cancer migration. Very well deserved! #MBE2026
Workshop #1 at #MBE2026 featured @tranejoan.bsky.social and @collagenyoshi.bsky.social back-to-back: first a wonderful talk on collagen trafficking, then a deep dive into lysine hydroxylation in collagens — asking the important question of how lysyl hydroxylases recognise their specific targets.
What an inspirational talk by Fiona Watt - beautiful data since 1990s, and the fact that something first seen in 1999 is followed up right now!! #MBE2026
What a wonderful first #ECR session hosted by @themeshwork.bsky.social! Join in the vibrant community and the future of #ECMatrix is super bright! #MBE2026
We are ready to start #MBE2026!! SHOUT-OUT to @valerioizzi.bsky.social for leading this conference, super excited about the next few days #ECMatrix #ScienceNoBoundaries
Guest speaker Joan Chang… taking a break from rainy Manchester to visit Sunny Liverpool… Circadian rhythms in collagen and tissue repair.. @tranejoan.bsky.social
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
👋Meet your presidents is back! We'll kickstart the week w/past presidents (Mon) followed by another PI (Thurs). Meet Jeff Miner 🥼2022 ASMB President, Prof at Washington University School of Medicine, studying #BasementMembranes and #kidney. Check out the full interview 👉🏻 youtu.be/LX6afqQ-G0k
Meet Our Presidents: Jeff Miner
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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) should be conductive to anyone who has done microscopy in their lives, but it's not! Resolution vs coverage tradeoffs, static workflows, heavy data analysis still plague it... IT'S TIME TO CHANGE THIS!! INTRODUCING NaVis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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
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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
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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
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We're excited to share our latest publication on immune dysfunction in refractory MG! Huge shoutout to the brilliant clinical scientist @katycdodd.bsky.social - from patient recruitment across the country to experiments and data analysis, you did it all! Can't wait to see what you do next 🌟
Katy Dodd@katycdodd.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat are the immune system changes in refractory Myasthenia Gravis? Read our publication today in Med 🌟 @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @dns-uom.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @neuromuscularmanc.bsky.social @madhvimenon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣Wondering what to expect from our next annual meeting? Planning your journey? Our preliminary program is now live! Don't forget to submit your abstracts!!! #matrixbiology @dsmb-dk.bsky.social @mbsanz.bsky.social @amsocmatbio.bsky.social @themeshwork.bsky.social www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...
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Had a wonderful time as usual! Really fantastic to see so many new #ECMatrix young scientists from diverse institutions, with exciting projects 💪🏻 and superb hosting (and organisation) from @ccstorytime.bsky.social of course (should've taken more food photos)!
Chloé Yeung@ccstorytime.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 2 of the Matrix Biology PhD course and we’re in the new Fælleshuset building starting our group work brain storming. Thanks to @douglaspdyer.bsky.social and @tranejoan.bsky.social for laying the foundations of ECM biology in yesterday’s lectures!
📢 2 very exciting PhD opportunities, please share! We use a range of technologies+systems to study #collagen, #ECMatrix, and #fibrosis 👇 1) MRC CASE DTP - #3D #biomaterials, #immune cells alter, #drugscreens lnkd.in/e6eMqs8M 2) Bicentenary - #macrophages, #circadian, #omics. lnkd.in/ekZfJfsd
My office for the next week or so, good to be back at HKU.
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
Thoughtful (and hopeful) reflections on the state-of-play for #ResearchCulture assessment as part of #REF2029 and the #REFPCE indicators project: wonkhe.com/blogs/is-res... "We don’t need all the answers for 2029, but we shouldn’t discard the tangible progress made"
Is research culture really too hard to assess?
Yolana Pringle and Ben Tatler make the case that the REF pause should be the moment to build on the most substantial sector-wide collaboration ever undertaken on research environments
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Become part of our new MRC Centre, working across Manchester and Oxford to solve a major challenge of our time - how does the immune system become dysregulated by environmental exposures to cause chronic disease. www.manchester.ac.uk/exposome-jobs @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
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The liver #transcriptome is highly sensitive to metabolic cues. By characterizing nuclear protein #OGlcNAcylation in mouse #liver during the day, @joanna-chiu.bsky.social &co show how shifts in a nutrient-sensitive #PTM may shape transcriptional regulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3KuS7m1
New review! Towards a unified framework for the function of ER exit sites www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a unified framework for the function of endoplasmic reticulum exit sites - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Endoplasmic reticulum exit sites (ERES) are specialized ER subdomains that regulate the export of secreted cargo. This Roadmap explores how ERES integrate biochemical and mechanical signals to coordinate trafficking and proposes a multidisciplinary strategy to investigate their function, including in disease.
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🎉 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
It's been a great conference hearing all the other research findings and lots of new ideas - food for thought for everyone! Wish I didn't have to leave earlier...
Stockmann Lab University of Zurich@stockmannlab.bsky.social · last yr.Terrific talk from @tranejoan.bsky.social on collagen homeostasis and turnover. Still a lot of things to be learned about collagen.
Awesome talk (as expected) by @stockmannlab.bsky.social on targeting fibrogenesis, at the #SclerodermaWorkshop - first reunion since #KeystoneFobrosis2022!
