by hubmacherlab | Nov 14, 2018 | lab, news, team
We are pleased to welcome Sarah Stanley as a Master Student in the lab. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and will be working on the role of ADAMTSL2 and other ECM proteins in skeletal muscle development. Welcome...
by hubmacherlab | Oct 19, 2018 | conference, news, presentation, research
An abstract from the Hubmacher Lab was selected as a short talk for the ORS Tendon Section 2018 Conference “Discovery to Delivery in Tendon Research: Team Approaches”. Dirk will present the lab’s findings on the skeletal phenotype of a mouse model for geleophysic...
by hubmacherlab | May 31, 2018 | grants, lab, news, research
The Hubmacher lab received a microgrant from the Rare Disease Foundation and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation in Canada. With this grant, we will study whether extracellular matrix function can be restored in cell lines derived from Marfan syndrome patients that...
by hubmacherlab | May 15, 2018 | matrix biology, news, research
Cross-linking of extracellular matrix proteins contributes to connective tissue stability. In a collaborative study, published in Matrix Biology, a novel link between ADAMTS-like proteins and the cross-linking enzyme lysyl oxidase (LOX) was revealed. The results...