We know the best research is often the result of open communication, innovative, and collaboration and we are putting this into practice at ASMB ASMB

We had an amazing second day of ASMB. We talked about patient collaboration and innovation, Laminins, the architecture and mechanics of the Basement Membrane, as well as mechanical remodeling of the Basement Membrane. See our insightful presenters here.

Today we had presenters from: Universities of Oska (Japan), Freiburg (Germany), Côte d'Azur (France), Rutgers (USA), Stanford (USA), Ohio State (USA), UCL (UK), Francis Crick Institute (UK), Alport UK, and Deerfield Management (USA). Thank you!

Today we had chairs and co-chairs from: Universities of Manchester (UK), Bournemouth (UK), Claude Bernard Lyon (France), Vanderbilt (USA), TRON Institute (Germany), Washington University in St Louis (USA), and Duke (USA). Thank you!

Day Three of ASMB is underway.

An invigorating first session to kickstart the 3rd day of our #BasementMembrane workshop, with a fantastic range of international colleagues! WTCCMR #ScienceNoBoundaries

We care about #disease models for #BasementMembranes! A session with tons of questions touching everything from #MuscularDystrophy to #cancer to #development to #SmallVesselDisease to #DiseaseBiomarkers Nordic Bioscience! WTCCMR #BMWorkshop

In our afternoon session we are celebrating investigators. Investigating the Basement Membrane is about looking at (extra)cellular activities and various proteins, from collagen IV, to laminin, nidogen, and proteoglycans.

Today we had chairs and co- chairs from, Universities of Chicago (USA), California, San Francisco (USA), Manchester (UK), Vanderbilt (USA), Duke (USA), and Washington University in St. Louis (USA). ASMB

The final Day of ASMB is here. We are sad to see some of our colleagues leave but we have come away with so much!

We are a #LovelyBunch! HUGE shoutout from Roy Zent on the hard work from Rachel Lennon and team, as well as #AnnaFildes WTCCMR and our very own #KendraLaDuca for putting this together! A plug for "our" journal #MatrixBiology and the upcoming special issue(s)!

Basement membrane features and tomography can vary significant even within the same tissue - the corneal epithelial basement membrane ranges between 30 nm and 400 nm thick! Abrams Et al. January 2000. Cell Tissue Res (1): 39-46. ASMB

We would love to hear from you! Did you attend ASMB this year? What is your biggest takeaway?

Today on our final day of ASMB we had presenters from Universities of South Florida (USA), California San Francisco (USA), Manchester (UK), Cornell (USA), Vanderbilt (USA), Duke (USA), Kings College London (USA), and the RIKEN laboratory (Japan). ASMB

Today on our final day of ASMB we had chairs and co chairs from Universities of Oulu (Finland), Manchester (UK), and Vanderbilt (USA). ASMB

Woo hoo!! Congratulations to Becky Preston on a successful PhD defence today 🥳- Circadian dynamics & matrix protein turnover in the kidney glomerulus- with Qing Jun Meng’s lab 🤩 & funded by Kidney Research UK 🙏 🙏awesome examiners Julie Gibbs & Matt Bailey Matt Bailey

AWTRS & MBSANZ are excited to announce who will be joining us at our joint Scientific Meeting, October 28 – 31, 2024, WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle. Clair Baldock, WTCCMR Loebel Lab, Michigan Nyström Lab, Freiburg Yuval Rinkevich, Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich

A superb Centre Symposium this week- buzzing with discussion, new developments, new Centre members - all demonstrating the vital interaction between technology & academia - The future is bright for #matrix research 🥳 WTCCMR UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Wellcome