{"id":2508,"date":"2025-06-26T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:35:00","slug":"30th-anniversary-of-the-manchester-cell-matrix-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/06\/26\/30th-anniversary-of-the-manchester-cell-matrix-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"30th anniversary of the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re back from a lovely visit to Manchester to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre. It had been a home to many matrix biology scientists including our very own Skeletal Research Group Prof Mike Briggs (1997-2012), Prof David Young (1997-1998), Dr Kasia Pirog (2001-2012), and Dr Ella Dennis (2011-2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was great to see everyone, be reminded of the history of this great centre, see old friends and great science that continues to be delivered in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"2511\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7LWkAAub-s.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"2509\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUapu8XwAEQZ0X.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"882\" data-id=\"2510\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x-1024x882.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x-1024x882.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x-300x258.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x-768x662.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x-1536x1323.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/GuUdu7QWUAEtk2x.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We did talk about science as well! We are looking forward to new collaborations and continued working together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy 30th anniversary, Manchester Cell Matrix Centre! and well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from a lovely visit to Manchester to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre. It had been a home to many matrix biology scientists including our very own Skeletal Research Group Prof Mike Briggs (1997-2012), Prof David Young (1997-1998), Dr Kasia Pirog (2001-2012), and Dr Ella Dennis (2011-2012). It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/06\/26\/30th-anniversary-of-the-manchester-cell-matrix-centre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">30th anniversary of the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}