Naba Lab UIC
@nabalabuic.bsky.social
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
I am very much looking forward to participating in the 2026 #ECM Pharmacology Congress!
ecm-congress.org
ecm-congress.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I am very much looking forward to participating in the 2026 #ECM Pharmacology Congress!
ecm-congress.org
ecm-congress.org
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
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
December 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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
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
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!
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
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!
You can read it in #openaccess at doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
🎊 Congrats to all co-authors!
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
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!
We are delighted to welcome Tali to our lab!
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are delighted to welcome Tali to our lab!
📣 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
📄 The paper is available in #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
#ECM #Matrisome #Interactome #SystemsBiology
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
📣 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
📄 The paper is available in #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
#ECM #Matrisome #Interactome #SystemsBiology
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
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
🎬 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
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
🎬 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
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
Very proud of our postdocs Dharma Pally and Aman Bains for receiving 🏆 travel awards from @histochemicalsoc.bsky.social to present their work at #ASMB2025!
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very proud of our postdocs Dharma Pally and Aman Bains for receiving 🏆 travel awards from @histochemicalsoc.bsky.social to present their work at #ASMB2025!
2 weeks to go until the meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology @amsocmatbio.bsky.social. The Naba lab is ready and excited 🤓
www.asmb.net/biennial-mee...
www.asmb.net/biennial-mee...
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
2 weeks to go until the meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology @amsocmatbio.bsky.social. The Naba lab is ready and excited 🤓
www.asmb.net/biennial-mee...
www.asmb.net/biennial-mee...
Excited to have contributed with James Considine from my lab to this exciting work from Pam Kreeger's lab that showed that fibronectin composition and TGM2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate #HGSOC cell adhesion. The paper is now out in Acta Biomaterialia! Have a look: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Excited to have contributed with James Considine from my lab to this exciting work from Pam Kreeger's lab that showed that fibronectin composition and TGM2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate #HGSOC cell adhesion. The paper is now out in Acta Biomaterialia! Have a look: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
Had a great day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Caught up with my TME colleagues, learned more about exciting proteomics work from @yingge2121.bsky.social and @liresearch.bsky.social, and saw the beautiful artwork in the memory of one of the greatest TME researchers and mentor, Patti Keely!
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Had a great day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Caught up with my TME colleagues, learned more about exciting proteomics work from @yingge2121.bsky.social and @liresearch.bsky.social, and saw the beautiful artwork in the memory of one of the greatest TME researchers and mentor, Patti Keely!
🎊 Congratulations, Daiqing, for passing your preliminary exam with flying colors! #ProudPI #OnwardAndUpward
July 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🎊 Congratulations, Daiqing, for passing your preliminary exam with flying colors! #ProudPI #OnwardAndUpward
😎 A sunny day to bid farewell to Thomas-Shadi Voges and welcome MSTP rotation student Ekeoma Uzoukwu to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social!
July 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
😎 A sunny day to bid farewell to Thomas-Shadi Voges and welcome MSTP rotation student Ekeoma Uzoukwu to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social!
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...
July 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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...
Delighted to welcome Kaden Todjo to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social for his HuBMAP-sponsored summer internship!
June 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Delighted to welcome Kaden Todjo to the @nabalabuic.bsky.social for his HuBMAP-sponsored summer internship!
A great way to start the day 😃
@valerioizzi.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
@valerioizzi.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
June 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A great way to start the day 😃
@valerioizzi.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
@valerioizzi.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
📣 Pre-print alert: Excited to have collaborated with Pam Kreeger and Kristyn Masters on this study showing that fibronectin composition and transglutaminase 2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate ovarian cancer cell adhesion in ECM-mimetic constructs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
📣 Pre-print alert: Excited to have collaborated with Pam Kreeger and Kristyn Masters on this study showing that fibronectin composition and transglutaminase 2 crosslinking cooperatively regulate ovarian cancer cell adhesion in ECM-mimetic constructs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Snapshots of our departmental retreat celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Department of Physiology’s and Biophysics at UIC!
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Snapshots of our departmental retreat celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Department of Physiology’s and Biophysics at UIC!
Honored to have been elected with Patrick Caswell @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social co-chair of the 2029 Gordon Research Conference on Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules!
We have big shoes to fill: www.grc.org/fibronectin-..., but are up for the challenge!
We have big shoes to fill: www.grc.org/fibronectin-..., but are up for the challenge!
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Honored to have been elected with Patrick Caswell @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social co-chair of the 2029 Gordon Research Conference on Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules!
We have big shoes to fill: www.grc.org/fibronectin-..., but are up for the challenge!
We have big shoes to fill: www.grc.org/fibronectin-..., but are up for the challenge!
Congratulations Dharma @pdtr124.bsky.social for winning the People’s Choice Award at the UIC Postdoctoral Association Lightning Talk Competition 🏅! #ProudPI
May 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Congratulations Dharma @pdtr124.bsky.social for winning the People’s Choice Award at the UIC Postdoctoral Association Lightning Talk Competition 🏅! #ProudPI
Asantewaa, junior in the lab, was awarded a UIC Honors College undergraduate research grant for her project aiming to understand the bases of #ECM assembly. Way to go Asantewaa! #ProudPI #YoungWomenInSTEM
March 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Asantewaa, junior in the lab, was awarded a UIC Honors College undergraduate research grant for her project aiming to understand the bases of #ECM assembly. Way to go Asantewaa! #ProudPI #YoungWomenInSTEM