Join us in welcoming the two newest members of the Naba lab! Allyson May joins us as a research specialist and Shanvi Darji is our newest undergraduate research assistant.
Read the latest review from the Naba lab entitled “Understanding and targeting the tumour matrisome” in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. This review details the latest methods for characterizing the extracellular matrix (ECM) of…
The two latest publications from the Naba Lab have been published in the Journal of Cell Science. The companion studies, “SNED1 fibrillar assembly in the extracellular matrix requires fibronectin and collagen I” and…
Alexandra has joined UIC’s Center for Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology (CBQB) as an affiliate member! Learn more about the missions of the CBQB on their website.
Daiqing Chen, a PhD candidate in the lab, delivered her work-in-progress seminar this week! Her talk, “Role of the Novel ECM Protein, SNED1, in Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition”, outlined the work she has accomplished thus…
This week Alexandra gave a talk on “The instructive matrisome: From molecular domains to tissue functions” at the 2026 Matrix Biology Europe conference in Oulu, Finland!
Alexandra traveled to the Curie Institute in Paris this week to deliver a keynote lecture on “The matrisome project: From proteomic explorations of the ECM to matritherapies.” Visit the “Stroma, Immunity, and Cancer”…
Alexandra delivered a talk, entitled, “The matrisome project: From proteomic explorations of the ECM to matritherapies” as the closing keynote during the 2026 ECM Pharmacology Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference was organized…
Alexandra traveled to Washington, D.C. this week as the featured speaker at the National Cancer Institute’s “Fibrosis at the crossroad of tissue homeostasis and cancer” workshop. Her talk was entitled: “The ECM across…
The latest research article from the lab entitled, “Identification of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma extracellular matrix signatures from in-depth proteomic profiling that correlate with lymphocyte infiltration” is now published in Cancer Research Communications.
