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Postdoctoral Fellow at Florida International University studying valvular remodeling during the pregnancy and postpartum periods 🫀🫄

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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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
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Dr. Joan Chang, Junior PI
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
👋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
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Dr. Yoshi Ishikawa, Junior PI
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
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Meet Our Presidents: Doug Gould
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
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Meet Our Presidents: Tom Barker
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
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Meet Our Presidents: Ambra Pozzi
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🎄🧬 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)
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🔬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).
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jhvs-journal.bsky.social @jhvs-journal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🔬 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
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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Chloé Yeung @ccstorytime.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🧬 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
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Elisa Villalobos, PhD. @elisavillalobos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨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...
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@NicoliLab @nicolilab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
OMG 😱 a true game changer for biology! Menstruation is a natural miracle of tissue regeneration. Amazing biology to come!
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Sandrine Le Goff @sgosfflv.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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 🧵...
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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Study in AJP-Heart and Circ is largest prospective CMR study to assess clinical & subclinical changes in young adult offspring of #hypertensive #pregnancy ow.ly/fpCY50X4hLA ➡️ Submit to our OPEN Call for Papers on #WomensHealth & #Cardiovascular Disease ow.ly/gUif50X4hCz
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🎉 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
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Tom Van Agtmael @tomvanagtmael.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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...
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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…
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GJBrainResearch @gjbrainresearch.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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
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Research Associate in in Neuro-Immunology and Extraceullar Matrix Biology (ImmunoMatrix):Oxford Road
Our Glyco-Immunology (Dyer) lab has produced published and preliminary data demonstrating that an under-appreciated structure, the glycocalyx, on endothelial- and immune- cells regulates immune cell recruitment by:
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🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🔔🧪 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/...
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Mechanobiology of the Extracellular Matrix
This Collection aims to highlight fundamental and translational advances in ECM mechanobiology.
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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📣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...
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Assistant Professor in Aging (University of Montreal)
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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!!! 🏄‍♀️🌅⛵️🏊‍♂️🍻🍸
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Naba Lab UIC @nabalabuic.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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...
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Yoshi Ishikawa @collagenyoshi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"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/...
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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...
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Meghan @mghnmrtn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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.
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Naba Lab UIC @nabalabuic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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....
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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...
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🌴 The pipettes are parked, the data can wait — it’s time for ☀️🏄‍♀️ and science naps! Our July newsletter features ECM summer vibes, cool papers, a poll, a lab introduction and a researcher spotlight that’ll warm your heart @perony.bsky.social Read it before we hit snooze 😎 @amsocmatbio.bsky.social
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
T-4 DAYS! The JULY 11 #DEADLINE for #EarlyBirdRegistration, #abstract and #TravelAward submission for the 2025 ASMB Biennial Meeting is coming fast!!! Lock in your spot at this must-attend event! Find all info at: asmb.net/biennial-mee... #ASMB2025 #ECMatrix #ASMBaltimore2025
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📢SOUND THE ALARM 📢 #Deadline #Extended until July 11 2025 💸 #Register early and save 📨Submit your #abstract 🧬 Showcase your work 🔗www. ASMB.net 📍 Don’t miss this opportunity to join us. #ASMB2025!
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Final FREE online seminar before the summer vacation!!!! Tomorrow, 3pm CET via Zoom!!! Register now!!! More info below and on our website!!!
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our final online seminar of the season is just around the corner!!! Save the date: June 25, 3pm CET. Register for FREE now and join us next week to discuss all things Hyaluronan in Medicine with Dr Laura Alaniz!!! Follow the QR code or click here: forms.gle/iSjnrLBVZmkD... @amsocmatbio.bsky.social
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This month for our online seminar series we are joined by Dr Laura Alaniz to discuss all things Hyaluronan! From its essential role in tissue structure to cutting-edge therapeutic applications, hyaluronan is far more than filler 👄 June 25th, 3PM CET / 9AM NY. Registration: forms.gle/CW9T1RGQMDVP...
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Dr. Verónica Espinoza @verukita1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
💕 6 tools for illustrating your scientific works! (FREE) 👉Read my Article on Medium here: medium.com/@vespinozag/... #genomic #chemistry #Academic #DataVisualization #postdoc #MachineLearning #DataScience #Bioinformatics #PhD #health #Python #Statistics #Programing #neuroscience #biology #science
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬
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Jon Humphries @jdhl18.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Estrogen attenuates stiffness-driven fibrotic signaling via transcriptional regulation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40364520/
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Estrogen attenuates stiffness-driven fibrotic signaling via transcriptional regulation - PubMed
Fibrosis, marked by excessive extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation, underlies functional decline in numerous diseases and often presents with sex-specific differences in severity. Although biochemi...
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🌈 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:
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Carsten Schulte @carstenschulte4.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#Science Bluesky, do your thing: We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas. Can you indicate some names to me?
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Mark Blaser, PhD @markcblaser.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
How does EV–vascular cell communication drive dynamic changes in atherosclerotic plaques? www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Multiomic Landscape of Extracellular Vesicles in Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Reveals Endothelial Communication Networks | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
BACKGROUND: Carotid atherosclerosis is orchestrated by cell-cell communication that drives progression along a clinical continuum (asymptomatic to symptomatic). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-d...
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Douglas Gibson @gibsonlab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We're very excited about this work! Using steroid metabolome profiling we found a unique hormone signature that could be used as a potential non-invasive diagnostic test for endometriosis. Please check out and share the preprint #endometriosis www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Steroid Metabolome Profiling Identifies a Unique Androgen Hormone Signature Associated with Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a chronic, hormone-dependent condition that affects 190 million women worldwide. There are no validated biomarkers for endometriosis and this delays diagnosis and treatment. We perfo...
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Friendly reminder that we have a smash talk coming up this Wednesday, 3pm CET with @tranejoan.bsky.social !!! Register now for FREE to secure your spot: forms.gle/KKYZjEv1DJFf...
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Registration for online talk
28 May 2025 - 3 pm CET (2 pm GMT / 9 am EST) - on Zoom (https://themeshwork2020.wixsite.com/info/up-coming-events) Title: (Circadian) control of collagen homeostasis – new paradigms and tools Speake...
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A reminder to all of you, especially collagen peeps out there, that @tranejoan.bsky.social will join us next week for a much-anticipated seminar on (circadian) collagen homeostasis!!! Register now for FREE : forms.gle/WfoYTjskw3zd... @amsocmatbio.bsky.social @matrixbiologie.bsky.social
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kenzo ivanovitch @kenzoivanovitch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We’re excited to share the first publication from our lab, now out in @EMBOPress! @shayma-a.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Using live imaging in the mouse embryo, we tracked how heart progenitors migrate and assemble into the heart tube.
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The Meshwork @themeshwork.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This month we are bringing the circadian rhythm in focus with a talk by @tranejoan.bsky.social on "(Circadian) control of collagen homeostasis – new paradigms and tools" Register now and don't miss a stimulating talk with all the latest updates from the expert herself: forms.gle/peLbQr5AiF2R...
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HMS Image Analysis Collaboratory @hms-iac.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
💻 Apply to our beginner-friendly Boston Bioimage Analysis Course! Get started with Python and learn to analyze fluorescence microscopy images — no coding experience required! Fee waivers available thanks to funding from @bioimagingna.bsky.social! 🗓️ Apply June 1st! iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/
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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Don't forget to #JOIN us #TOMORROW for an exciting #Esymposium about Similarities and Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender. When? Thursday, May 8; 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST #REGISTER 👉 asmb.net/e-symposia
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Meghan @mghnmrtn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hey ECM lovers! Is there anyone out there who uses Alexa Fluor 488 hydrazide? I have some mechanistic questions that I’d love to chat about! #ECM #elastin #fluorescence
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