New Paper! Jonathan Baldan, Juan Camacho and Marta Ballester from the lab find a genetic program driven by Sox4 promoting the resolution of tissue injury in pancreas regeneration and cancer. Jonathan Baldan Gastroenterology Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) #tuft_cells #plasticity tinyurl.com/4vssyzdt

Don’t forget to register for our free webinar next week to hear Dr. Celina G. Kleer discuss how "A hybrid breast cancer/mesenchymal stromal cell population enhances metastasis". Sign-up here 👉 bit.ly/4cxZ4fk

If you’re interested in the application of single cell/spatial tech to oncology, pls checkout our new review in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. Great collaboration with Joakim Lundeberg, Julia Chen & Ludvig Larsson. rdcu.be/dOFpo Garvan Institute of Medical Research Garvan_Cancer_Ecosystems

Fibroblast and myofibroblast activation in normal tissue repair and fibrosis nature.com/articles/s4158…

Did you know sex matters in #Metastasis? Here, Yingsheng Zhang & Xue Li (Cedars-Sinai) highlight the emerging & important roles of biological sex in metastasis, advocating for mechanistic + quantitative studies for future sex-tailored therapies. 📖➡️go.nature.com/46jUzmn

The deadline for registration for the upcoming EVOMET Conference on Deconstructing the Evolution of Metastasis is 31st August. The meeting is taking place from 6th to 8th November 2024 in Brussels (Belgium). More info & register here: evomet-itn.eu/evomet-confere… #metastasis

Our 1st Roadmap asking why do patients with cancer die? is now FREE to access for 1 month starting today! The precise causes of mortality in patients with cancer remains poorly understood & this piece starts to highlight areas of unmet need for targeting go.nature.com/3RDKlao

Components of normal tissue architecture maintain structure (+ fxn) & serve as barriers to tumor progression…but how? We report a 🧩 in our new preprint. Congrats to 1st author M. Kathrina Oñate & thx to collabs Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Stanford Medicine! 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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…

Cleavage of the vascular matrix attracts glioblastoma cells to infiltrate the brain parenchyma biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cancer

The latest from our lab is out in Development. Congrats to Marcos Sande-Melon, who drove this work. It was a fantastic collaboration with Juanma Gonzalez-Rosa and his team. 😀🔬🐟

Had the honour of joining Alan Field for his Monday Drive show on Eastside 89.7 FM as part of National Science Week 2024 to talk about some of our research underway at the Garvan | → eastsidefm.org/episodes/17234… ← Eastside 89.7 FM NationalScienceWeek Garvan Institute of Medical Research #ScienceWeek

🌟 New Research Alert on Cellular Ageing! 🌟 Our latest study reveals that we can delay mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) ageing and maintain their 'youth-like' traits using an elastic matrix protein abundant in young cells. Out now in Advanced Science: doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…

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/

Please RT! 🧬🧬 I am looking for a #postdoc fellow to lead a new project in 3D chromatin organisation and transcriptional regulation in cancer (experimental and/or computational) at South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute in Adelaide. Apply below: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/5146…

NEW content online! Targeting the tumour vasculature: from vessel destruction to promotion dlvr.it/TCY0PV

Say whaaat!?? 👇👇👇ever wanted to visit Australia & see great science?? ‘We are excited to announce that the next Hunter Meeting will take place June 2nd-5th 2025 at the Rydges Resort, Hunter Valley’ Hunter Meeting It’s worth the long haul flight, I promise.

Hot off the press! "Mechanisms of assembly and remodelling of the extracellular matrix" is now out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology doi.org/10.1038/s41580… It is a privilege to have been asked to review the current state of #ECM research and discuss exciting emerging research avenues, a 🧵:

Classifying cancer-associated fibroblasts—The good, the bad, and the target: Cancer Cell cell.com/cancer-cell/fu…

NEW content online! CAF-induced physical constraints controlling T cell state and localization in solid tumours dlvr.it/TD39Qh