Alexandra Naba is guest-editing a Topical Collection on “Methods for Extracellular Matrix Research in Development, Health, and Disease” for JoVE (formerly known as the Journal of Visual Experiments). This collection of papers aims to cover advanced experimental approaches in the field. she suggest that our group’s work would be an invaluable addition.
JoVE is the leading peer-reviewed scientific methods video journal whose goal is to increase method dissemination and reproducibility of research.
She would like to assemble a Topical Collection that will serve as the go-to resource for methods to study the ECM and their application across diverse fields of research and set standards for years to come. The Collection will cover, but is not limited to:
- Techniques to profile the global composition of the ECM (g., proteomic, mass spectrometry imaging, multiplexed IHC)
- Techniques to image and quantify the physical and mechanical properties of the ECM from in-vitro cell culture systems or in-or ex-vivo samples across model organisms
- Methods to characterize the mechanisms of ECM assembly and remodeling
- Protocols to engineer in-vitro ECMs and ECM mimics with applications to cancer research, wound healing, or tissue regeneration
- Computational approaches to mine -omic datasets to gain insights into genetic, transcriptional, translational, and post-translational regulations of the matrisome across systems
If you are interested, submit an abstract at: https://app.jove.com/methods-collections/submit-an-abstract?collection_id=4883
or feel free to contact alexandra at: https://info.jove.com/mc_contact_editor?methods_collection_url=https://app.jove.com/methods-collections/4883/methods-for-extracellular-matrix-research-in-development-health-and-disease
Abstracts will be accepted until July 15, 2026, and full articles should be submitted by November 30, 2026.




















Following the successful meeting organized last year in May 2014, a special issue of Cell Adhesion & Migration on Tenascins: Defining their role in tissue homeostasis and cancer has been published [Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 2015]. This issue is co-edited by Kim Midwood & Gertraud Orend and you access it on the
Ladislas Robert, un des fondateurs du Club Français du Tissu Conjonctif qui a été à l’origine de la Société Française de Biologie de la Matrice Extracellulaire, vient d’éditer avec T. Fulop un ouvrage intitulé « Aging Facts and Theories » (Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontoloy vol. 39, 2014). Il a également rédigé plusieurs chapitres de cet ouvrage dont un intitulé « Aging connective tissues: experimental facts and theoritical considerations ». Je recommande la lecture de ce livre à tous ceux qui travaillent sur le vieillissement bien sûr mais aussi à tous ceux qui souhaitent parfaire leur culture scientifique.