diff --git a/aliby/io/matlab.py b/aliby/io/matlab.py
index 18362ed377b86e577bc6dc703a0f5c8bb67d5c58..de5db8aea2770a250a1a21348c04a6bd81712380 100644
--- a/aliby/io/matlab.py
+++ b/aliby/io/matlab.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the reverse engineering at https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/mbauman/9121961
 import re
 import struct
 import sys
-from collections import Iterable
+from collections.abc import Iterable
 from io import BytesIO
 
 import h5py