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📢Open postdoc position in stem cell biology📢 We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join our team, and drive an exciting project investigating the effects of matrix signals on the immunomodulatory responses of stem cells. bit.ly/40PNF5u Closing date: 14 Jan 2024

Congratulations to Alex Smith & colleagues on being awarded the MBSANZ Paper of the Month (Nov 2023) in the MCR category for their work on ‘Enhancing BMP-2-mediated osteogenesis with a synthetic heparan sulfate mimetic’ in Biomaterials Advances. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Jessica Chitty (Matrix & Metastasis Lab) & colleagues, for being awarded the MBSANZ 2023 ‘Paper of the Year’ in the Mid Career Researchers Category. You can read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4301… #extracellularmatrix #matrixbiology #ECM

Congratulations to Marija Dinevska & colleagues, for being awarded the MBSANZ 2023 ‘Paper of the Year’ in the Early Career Researchers Category. You can read the paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #extracellularmatrix #matrixbiology #ECM

MBSANZ members, have you recently published a paper? Let us know and we will highlight it in our next newsletter. Don't forget you can also submit it for paper of the month: mbsanz.org/paper-award Yu Suk CHOI Dr Brooke Farrugia (she/her) Larisa Haupt Giselle Yeo Sugandha Luke Hipwood

Abstract submission for the 2024 AWTRS & MBSANZ Joint Scientific is now open! For info awtrsmbsanz2024.smalltalkevents.com.au/abstracts/ Come & join us at the WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle in October!

Together with Dr Jennifer Ashworth, we are delighted to share our recent review in Nature Reviews Cancer on "The importance of 3D matrix architecture in cancer & implications for biomaterial model design" → rdcu.be/dK15H ← Garvan Institute of Medical Research University of Nottingham Vet School Uni of Nottingham School of Medicine #WeAreUoN University of Nottingham Biodiscovery Institute

There's only a few days left before abstract submission closes for the upcoming 2024 AWTRS  & MBSANZ  Joint Scientific Meeting. Make sure you submit your abstract by 28 June 2024! For more information and to submit your abstract go to: awtrsmbsanz2024.smalltalkevents.com.au/abstracts/

Congratulations to @MBSANZ MCR Paper of the Month Recipients, Brooke Pereira & Shona Ritchie, (co-led by Thomas R. Cox), for their latest work looking at the role of Nidogen-2 in pancreatic cancer published in Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Meet our Plenary Speakers for the 2024 AWTRS & MBSANZ Meeting Clair Baldock is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Manchester and Group Leader in the WTCCMR. Early bird registration ends on 30 August 2024, don’t miss out! awtrsmbsanz2024.smalltalkevents.com.au/registration/

Meet our Plenary Speakers for the 2024 AWTRS & MBSANZ Meeting Loebel Lab is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at University of Michigan Early bird registration ends on 30 August 2024, don’t miss out! awtrsmbsanz2024.smalltalkevents.com.au/registration/

Meet our Plenary Speakers for the 2024 AWTRS & MBSANZ Meeting Yuval Rinkevich Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich research focuses on identifying principles of tissue/organ repair & regeneration Early bird registration has been extended to 13 Sept, don’t miss out! awtrsmbsanz2024.smalltalkevents.com.au/registration/

Congratulations to @MBSANZ Student/ECR Paper of the Month Recipient, Sunny Lee (led by Giselle Yeo ), for their latest work looking at the interaction between tropoelastin and mesenchymal stromal cells published in Advanced Sci News doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…