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The final Day of ASMB is here. We are sad to see some of our colleagues leave but we have come away with so much!

We are a #LovelyBunch! HUGE shoutout from Roy Zent on the hard work from Rachel Lennon and team, as well as #AnnaFildes WTCCMR and our very own #KendraLaDuca for putting this together! A plug for "our" journal #MatrixBiology and the upcoming special issue(s)!

Basement membrane features and tomography can vary significant even within the same tissue - the corneal epithelial basement membrane ranges between 30 nm and 400 nm thick! Abrams Et al. January 2000. Cell Tissue Res (1): 39-46. ASMB

We would love to hear from you! Did you attend ASMB this year? What is your biggest takeaway?

Today on our final day of ASMB we had presenters from Universities of South Florida (USA), California San Francisco (USA), Manchester (UK), Cornell (USA), Vanderbilt (USA), Duke (USA), Kings College London (USA), and the RIKEN laboratory (Japan). ASMB

Today on our final day of ASMB we had chairs and co chairs from Universities of Oulu (Finland), Manchester (UK), and Vanderbilt (USA). ASMB

Woo hoo!! Congratulations to Becky Preston on a successful PhD defence today 🥳- Circadian dynamics & matrix protein turnover in the kidney glomerulus- with Qing Jun Meng’s lab 🤩 & funded by Kidney Research UK 🙏 🙏awesome examiners Julie Gibbs & Matt Bailey Matt Bailey

A superb Centre Symposium this week- buzzing with discussion, new developments, new Centre members - all demonstrating the vital interaction between technology & academia - The future is bright for #matrix research 🥳 WTCCMR UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Wellcome

Mark your calendars!!! #ASMB 2025 Biennial Meeting👇🏻 🗓️When? November 16-19, 2025 🏙️Where? Baltimore 🥅What? #ECMatrix #Marvels ❓Why? 25th anniversary with lots of new features🥳 plus all the leading #ECMatrix research (and we all know how fundamental it is to life!)

A #masterclass from @MJ_Humphries on #adhesomes and #mechanosensing. What a way to wrap up an amazing #MBE2024! Also WTCCMR representation bookending the meeting ⭐

Genomics research helps us understand diseases better. It enables us to improve treatments and personalise healthcare. Yet for science to benefit everyone, we need to support greater diversity in genomic data. [1/3] wellcome.org/news/genomics-…

Today, we celebrate the innovative and impactful work being done in UoM Biology, Medicine and Health! A special shoutout to Joan Chang for their dedication to supporting and celebrating postdocs—not only in Manchester but across the UK! 👏 Thank you, Joan, for all that you do! #PostdocAppreciation

Another two representations from WTCCMR, Mike on Boots-funded skin research (it works!), and Julia on #inclusive #research and #culture!

On UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Innovation Day, we’re excited to continue to celebrate Qing-Jun Meng, Faculty Researcher of the Year! Qing-Jun’s pioneering work on circadian clocks and rhythms is transforming our understanding of health and wellness.

A grey morning in Manchester but, if yesterday’s discussions were anything to go by it’s going to be a sparkling day of illuminating science at the WTCCMR

So pleased to share the first study from our @CRUK Manchester Cancer Research Centre RadNet collab led by the amazing Nabina Pun with Travis Lab and Prof. Illidge Urszula Cytlak Chemokine Research Group Lydia Becker Institute WTCCMR biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For anyone interested in the ⁦UKProteoglycans⁩ 2025 meeting in beautiful Manchester please register here, all experience levels welcome ⁦Merry Lab⁩ ⁦@LabRichter⁩ ⁦Kwok Lab⁩ ⁦BSMB⁩ ⁦ISMB⁩ ⁦WTCCMR⁩ forms.office.com/pages/response…

Gamechanger for vesicle Control! We present an approach to remotely control endosomal distribution in living cells (even in #3Dmatrix) with high precision. #Magnetogenetics meets #Rabs! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @integrintraffic WTCCMR Gregor lab Institute of Molecular Genetics mathieu coppey #CellBiology

We'll always have matrix... Happy holidays to all our members and collaborators