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Naba Lab UIC
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Our laboratory studies the extracellular matrix #ECM in health and disease using #Proteomics and #CompBiology | Founder of the Matrisome Project @matrisome.bsky.social | https://nabalab.uic.edu
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Thank you @uicancercenter.bsky.social for featuring our work in collaboration with Dr. Pamela Kreeger now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social!
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iScience Journal Publishes Naba Work
University of Illinois Cancer Center member Alexandra Naba, PhD, is a corresponding author on a collaborative study, funded by the National Cancer Institute and published in the journal iScience, that...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
GetHIRED! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - Application due Thursday, March 5 Ideal for Postdoctoral Researchers Academic Job Market Insight -Take stock of what you want -Know your options -Prepare outstanding job packet materials -Organize your research & chalk talks -Perfect your interview & avoid the pitfalls Course Features -Six asynchronous online modules -Virtual meetings with an experienced facilitator -Peer feedback, support, & expert advice Course Dates: April 14 – June 23, 2026 Course Fee: SDB Members: $499; Non-Members: $599 Deadline: March 5, 2025 Society for Developmental Biology logo QR Code for GetHIRED! website
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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themeshwork.bsky.social
New year, fresh start for our webinar series 🥳 January 27th, 3pm CET (9am NY) we are excited to bring you "Collagens Across Evolution: Structure and Function" 🧬 Invited speakers: Dr. Abhishek Jalan & Dr. Debora Monego. Let's go to the structural side 🥰
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Applications are open for the 2026 Computational Cell Types Workshop! 🧠📈

Join us on May 11-14 for this hackathon-style event bringing together researchers interested in exploring transcriptomic datasets, developing tools, and connecting with peers.

https://bit.ly/3LFBAN3
2026 Computational Cell Types Workshop
Workshop in Seattle, WA to gain in-depth exposure to how Allen Institute defines "cell types" and walk away with direct applicable examples on using our free, open tools for their research
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January 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb.
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
Work for us
Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."

One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/3Zfm0e8 #NationalMentoringMonth
A person holding out their arm while people line up on it. The hedline is: One mentor isn’t enough. Here’s how I built a network of mentors
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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I am very much looking forward to participating in the 2026 #ECM Pharmacology Congress!
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January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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It is with great sadness that I have learned of the unexpected passing of my postdoctoral mentor, Richard Hynes. Richard was far more than a mentor to me. He believed in me at a formative moment in… ...
It is with great sadness that I have learned of the unexpected passing of my postdoctoral mentor, Richard Hynes. Richard was far more than a mentor to me. He believed in me at a formative moment in m...
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January 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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🧪Our special issue "𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱" (Curr Opin Biomed Eng, Vol.37 Mar 2026) is out 🎉

🔬Thanks to all authors, may this spark cross‑disciplinary collaboration!
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#Mechanobiology #ECMatrix #Biomaterials
Cellular and molecular aspects of mechanobiology of the extracellular matrix
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January 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Last post before taking off for a 2-week vacation!
I am thrilled to share that my lab has joined the @geneontology.bsky.social consortium as curator of all things #ECM and has contributed to the latest GO paper, now published in @narjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...!
#Matrisome #MatriGO
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December 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Major update for unilectin.unige.ch with now more than 2800 3D-structures with annotation, literature and details of interaction!! HumanLectome also up to date. Thanks to Boris Schnider at @sib.swiss and @glycoexpasy.bsky.social for super work. More exciting news soon with LectomeXplore upgrade
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Our paper in collaboration with Pam Kreeger, "Comparative proteomic analysis of the #ECM of the human omentum and mesentery, the main sites of #HGSOC metastasis", is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social!
You can read it in #openaccess at doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
🎊 Congrats to all co-authors!
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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themeshwork.bsky.social
🎄🧬 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)
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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centriolelab.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)!

GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging.

Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations.

👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at the EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in #Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #meeting 🧪
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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We are thrilled to welcome Prakrti to our lab. Prakrti is a 1st-year undergraduate student at the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors College.As an aspiring oncologist, she will study the role of SNED1 in breast cancer metastasis. Welcome Prakrti!
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Microenvironment-specific modulation of macrophage function and tumour progression by ADAMTS1 through Syndecan-4 shedding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.690963v1
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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themeshwork.bsky.social
🔬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).
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We are delighted to welcome Tali to our lab!
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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In their Tools and Resources article, Nina Grishchenko, Michael Olson and colleagues present Toogle-Untoogle, a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface.
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Figure showing the interactive segmentation refinement in Toggle-Untoggle – de-selection, merging and manual annotation.
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We are thrilled to announce our 2026 election results. Olga Vitek has been elected to serve as US HUPO's President-Elect, Devin Schweppe as Secretary, and Sasha Singh and Hanno Steen were elected to serve as Members-At-Large on our Board of Directors. Congratulations to all! 🌟 #USHUPO
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
nabalabuic.bsky.social
📣 Publication alert: Our paper, “A guide to building the matrisome interactome: from computational predictions to experimental validation” is now published in @febsj.bsky.social!
📄 The paper is available in #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
#ECM #Matrisome #Interactome #SystemsBiology
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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While several of us attended #ASMB2025, Asantewaa Jones, senior in the lab, presented her undergraduate research project at the UIC Honors College Fall Research Symposium! I could not be prouder of what she has accomplished in our lab! #ProudPI #ThisIsUIC
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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🎬 That's a wrap!
The Naba lab had a great time at the meeting of the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social #ASMB2025.
Icing on the cake: graduate students Daiqing Chen and Leanna Leverton both won best poster presenter awards 🏆
We are already looking forward to #ASMB2027
#ProudPI #HappyLab
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM