Roufaida is back from a week at the CHANGE Summer School followed by Youth@MBE congress and then the main Matrix Biology Europe (MBE) meeting in beautiful Lyon.

She presented a great poster with her PhD data, had interesting scientific discussions, took part in an “omics” workshops and learnt new skills, and was part of the selection committee as a young jury member for the Youth@MBE. Well done Roufaida!

From Lyon she headed straight to the University of Pavia in Italy, where she will spent the next 3 months performing uCT analysis and zebrafish morpholino experiments. We are looking forward to the stories and results on her return 🙂

We had a great time at the “The Dynamic Matrix: Mechanics, Ageing and Repair” meeting in Bristol. We were there 9th-10th April for the Annual Spring Meeting of the British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB). We presented 3 posters, contributed one report, discussed multiple collaborations and had a great time listening to the amazing science by Prof Elizar Zelzer, Prof Farshid Guilak, Dr Joe Swift, Prof Tonia Vincent and Prof Reinhard Faessler, amongst others.

Well done and thanks to Francesca, Marc and Roufaida for presenting a poster and generating interesting discussions!

Congratulations to Jack Roberts from the SRG for the poster prize, and to Marc Farcasanu and Rachel Pearson for great poster presentations.

Exciting news, the BSMB Early Career Researcher meeting is happening on the 29th of June 2023 in Manchester!

We are going, and presenting. Join us, it will be fun!

Register here: https://bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/bsmb-ecr-event-manchester-2023/…

Thank you Doug Dyer for inviting us to participate in the Early Career Researcher BSMB meeting in Manchester! We are looking forward to seeing everyone, catching up with friends, and chatting about our work.

Registration for the meeting will open soon. Watch this space!

The NEPG conference (https://ne-pg.co.uk/) is the largest student-led annual biomedical conference in the UK, offering postgraduate students valuable presentation and networking opportunities with their peers. This year, Jack Roberts from the SRG is in the organising committee, and the SRG students Abby Brumwell, Adam, Duxfield, Dan Hayman and Marc Farcasanu will be presenting their work.

There’s still time to join if you’re interested!

We were at the British Society for Matrix Biology meeting in Liverpool this month. An amazing meeting full of great science around development and ageing, including a great networking morning with the ECMage network (really exciting projects and ideas there!). Lovely to see so many new tissue engineering approaches and opportunities to collaborate with friends old and new.

And a big thank you and well done to Francesca, Marc and Rachel, who presented posters about our EC, NC3Rs, and JGW Patterson Foundation funded projects.

The registration for the next BSMB autumn meeting in Liverpool is now open and live!! Don’t hesitate to email me for any queries. Please forward as wide as possible. https://bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/matrix-development/…

And it was great!

Lots of exciting conferences coming up with bursaries and other opportunities, especially for our early career researchers. Watch this space!

And https://bsmb.ac.uk/