Çağla was representing the lab at Termis EU in Palma Mallorca this week, chairing a session on “Advances in Ocular Tissue Engineering” and presenting a poster of her work.
Well done Çağla!
The conference programme looks great, we are looking forward to the de-brief on your return.
While Cagla and Kasia were representing the lab at the British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB) in Manchester, Roufaida got a chance to present her work at the German Society for Matrix Biology (DGMB) meeting in Heidelberg, where our CHANGE DCs also organised a satellite conference as part of the meeting. Well done!
We’re back in Newcastle after a brilliant British Society for Matrix Biology Spring 2026 meeting in Manchester, organised by Douglas Dyer. It was great to be back in Manchester, see old friends and make new connections! The program was very inspiring and covered all aspects of matrix biology. Cagla Erdas from our lab presented her data and Jack B. Roberts from the Newcastle University Skeletal Research Group was awarded a poster prize (well done Jack!). Thank you Doug for organising a brilliant meeting!
It was also a great opportunity to pop over to Liverpool after the meeting, catch up with Blandine Poulet and discuss future projects. Back in Newcastle full of matrix inspiration!
The final CHANGE MSCA DN meeting took place in Padova last week. It was great to see how far our students have advanced their research and how they developed into mature scientists driving their own program of research and building their own networks.
We are very proud of you all!
Thank you to Prof Paolo Bonaldo, Prof Paola Braghetta and Prof Matilde Cescon for organising a great meeting and looking after us all.
It is sad that this consortium is coming to an end but we hope to continue working with our European colleagues. We will eagerly follow the development of our DCs, and hope that they will be the next generation of matrix biologists leading the field in the future.
We’re back from a great meeting at the University of Surrey, organised by Dr Salvatore Santamaria and his team. It was an amazing meeting, with a very inspiring programme full of cutting edge technologies and new discoveries.
Roufaida presented a poster with her recent data on bone phenotype in our SEMDJL2 mice, and had several interesting discussions and suggestions.
The BSMB really is like a one big scientific family. A great society supporting its members and ECRs in a friendly environment. Until the next meeting! Manchester Spring 2026, we can’t wait!
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/…
We’re back from the wonderful Cartilage Gordon Research Conference, and absolutely buzzing! Great friends old and new, and amazing science. It was so nice to be able to attend a conference ion person again, and to see everyone. Thank you Frank Zaucke and Farsh Guilak for organising a great meeting!
