{"id":2784,"date":"2026-04-16T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:45:57","slug":"we-had-a-great-time-at-the-bsmb-spring-2026-meeting-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2026\/04\/16\/we-had-a-great-time-at-the-bsmb-spring-2026-meeting-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a great time at the BSMB Spring 2026 meeting in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re back in Newcastle after a brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/british-society-for-matrix-biology\/\">British Society for Matrix Biology<\/a> Spring 2026 meeting in Manchester, organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/douglas-dyer-19749229\/\">Douglas Dyer<\/a>. 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cagla-erdas-674409239\/\">Cagla Erdas<\/a> from our lab presented her data and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jack-b-roberts-b41518358\/\">Jack B. Roberts<\/a> from the Newcastle University Skeletal Research Group was awarded a poster prize (well done Jack!). Thank you Doug for organising a brilliant meeting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It was also a great opportunity to pop over to Liverpool after the meeting, catch up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/blandine-poulet-90490696\/\">Blandine Poulet<\/a> and discuss future projects. Back in Newcastle full of matrix inspiration!<\/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\/2026\/04\/1776250736624.jfif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2785\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/1776250736624-768x1024.jfif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/1776250736624-768x1024.jfif 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/1776250736624-225x300.jfif 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/1776250736624.jfif 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"2787\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/04\/20260414_0724082-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2026\/04\/16\/we-had-a-great-time-at-the-bsmb-spring-2026-meeting-in-manchester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We had a great time at the BSMB Spring 2026 meeting in Manchester<\/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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}