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The ASMB promotes basic, translational, and clinical research on the extracellular matrix and supports the growth of the ECM research community #ECMatrix

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🎉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: Visit the ASMB website

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NPAW Rising Star Series🌟

Some Alport Syndrome mutations act like a premature 🛑sign causing cells to quit building collagen halfway.
Dr. Kohei Omachi (@RIKEN_BDR) makes tRNAs that read right past it.
#NPAW2026 #MatrixBiology #RisingStars #LovePostdocs
📽️https://t.co/KKY8uvg5O2

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@UICPhysiology

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NPAW Rising Stars Series🌟

What goes wrong in the bone marrow matrix in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)?👀
Dr. @BainsAK studies how faulty stromal signaling reshapes the #ECM in MDS.

📽️https://t.co/Uv4w6zGT5h

#NPAW2026 #MatrixBiology #RisingStars #LovePostdocs

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NPAW Rising Star Series🌟

Alport syndrome is a typo in a collagen gene & the kidney's filter comes apart. Dr @decker_st (@UUtah) studies what happens next, and how mitochondria get dragged in.👨‍🔬🥼
📺https://t.co/I9zJkXJT70

#NPAW2026 #MatrixBiology #RisingStars #LovePostdocs

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Professor Prada will see you now.
ASMB President Tom Barker @UVAEngineers stars in our National Postdoc Appreciation Week message.🥼🧪🧫🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬
No postdocs were harmed in the making of this video😋
#NPAW2026 #LovePostdocs

https://t.co/NpxX8nNMFy

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To every postdoc in matrix biology - thank you. You repeat the experiment, keep the cell line alive, answer reviewer two, and train the next generation. The field holds together because you do.
#NPAW2026 #PostdocAppreciation #MatrixBiology #LovePostdocs

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Don't miss this opportunity to sharpen your science communication skills! Join the Visualizing Science: Graphical Abstract Challenge and compete for exciting prizes. 🎨

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What makes a graphical abstract catch an editor's eye? 👀 Join us for a FREE webinar featuring insights from senior editors of @AJPathology and @histochemnews! Register here https://t.co/j7sPnC3Twv

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🧬Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Masters series is Dr Billy Hudson (@VUMCDiscoveries ), a pioneer in basement membrane and kidney disease research whose discoveries transformed the field.

🎥Get to know him: https://t.co/E73GmfbhjU

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🖼️ You now have more time to vote for your favorite image! 🌟

The #ASMB Image Contest is still open, giving you another chance to help choose the People’s Choice winner.

🗳️ One vote per person. Voting now closes July 6!

👉 Vote here: https://t.co/mEAiZxjgJL

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🧬Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Masters series is Dr. Andrea Page-McCaw, (@VanderbiltU) a leader in tissue remodelling.
Her work uncovered how cells detect basement membrane damage through Piezo channels driving tissue repair.
🎥Get to know her: https://t.co/hBLKvIi2pi

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🧬Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Masters series is @roy_zent (@VUMChealth), a leader in kidney matrix biology

His research revealed how Kindlins and Rac1 regulate cell-matrix interactions, kidney development, and tissue repair. Discover his journey: https://t.co/YlknIlG1IG

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☀️ Summer is almost here, and summer school is in session!
Dive into the molecules that shape the extracellular matrix with lectures by Prof. Hans Peter Bächinger and Prof. Peter Yurchenco:
🧬Collagens: https://t.co/zfNZS2nWUw
🧬 Laminins: https://t.co/qru83mkrFA

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🧬 Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Master series: Ryan Petrie (@DrexelUniv ), Discoverer of the nuclear-piston mechanism, revealing how cells generate force to navigate complex 3D environments.
🎥 https://t.co/RoMNi3MITi

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🧬 Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Master series is Boris Hinz (@UofT), leader in mechanobiology, wound healing, and fibrosis research. His work on myofibroblasts, tissue mechanics, is reshaping how we understand and treat fibrotic disease.
🎥 https://t.co/8xYoxpsSEf

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🧬 Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Master series is Nancy Forde (@SFU ), a leader in single-molecule biophysics. Her work uses optical tweezers to reveal the mechanics of collagen, and engineers synthetic molecular motors.
Get to know her: https://t.co/ikS89vZa4F

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🧬 Next up in our #ASMB2025 Matrix Master series is Dieter P Reinhardt (@mcgillu), a leader in ECM research whose work has revealed key mechanisms of microfibril and elastic fiber formation and their roles in connective tissue disease.
Get to know him https://t.co/YGFIkdVtjZ

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🧬 Our next Matrix Master in the #ASMB2025 series is @RLWczyk (@OfficialUoM, @BSMB1), whose pioneering research has advanced our understanding of basement membranes and their role in genetic kidney disease.

Discover her scientific journey 👀: https://t.co/YgFDZc4A3L

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#ASMB2025 introduces our Matrix Masters!

First up is @SherwoodElegans @DukeU, whose research has uncovered how cells navigate tissues and how these mechanisms contribute to cancer metastasis.

Learn more about his work and scientific journey: https://t.co/RaOaobSrX9

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MBE2026 in Oulu is drawing near, and we can start introducing the fantastic lineup we have assembled! Up first, our keynote speaker #1, the one and only Prof. Fiona Watt !
Register now at https://t.co/81Gexf3Q15 !

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And we continue our introduction of the fantastic speaker lineup of MATRIX BIOLOGY EUROPE 2026 with the plenary #1, the one and only Alexandra Naba, Ph.D. 🤩 join us at https://t.co/81Gexf3Q15 !!!