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Three new papers: ReScale4DL, Rxiv-Maker and mAIcrobe

Three new papers: ReScale4DL, Rxiv-Maker and mAIcrobe

Posted on Fri 25 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, publications

Three lab papers came out in September 2026: ReScale4DL in Nature Communications, Rxiv-Maker in Journal of Cell Science and mAIcrobe in Communications AI & Computing


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Catarina Sequeira joins the lab as a postdoc

Catarina Sequeira joins the lab as a postdoc

Posted on Mon 14 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Catarina Sequeira joins the Henriques Lab as an ERC-funded postdoc to work on phototoxicity measurement, adaptive live imaging and nanoscale mapping of infection


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Nuno P. Martins leaves to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School

Nuno P. Martins leaves to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School

Posted on Tue 01 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Nuno P. Martins leaves the Henriques Lab to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School in Lisbon


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Mario Del Rosario starts his own lab at Åbo Akademi

Mario Del Rosario starts his own lab at Åbo Akademi

Posted on Tue 12 May 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Mario Del Rosario leaves the Henriques Lab to lead his own bioimaging group at Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship Centre in Finland


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Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal starts her own lab at NIMSB

Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal starts her own lab at NIMSB

Posted on Thu 16 April 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal leaves the Henriques Lab to lead the AI and Microscopy for Biomedical Discovery group at the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology


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Henriques Lab Awarded La Caixa Health Research Grant

Henriques Lab Awarded La Caixa Health Research Grant

Posted on Thu 20 November 2025 in news • Tagged with grant, funding

The Henriques Lab has been awarded a La Caixa Foundation Health Research grant to develop AI-powered microscopes that automatically adjust lighting parameters during imaging.


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Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the lab as PhD Student

Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the lab as PhD Student

Posted on Sat 01 November 2025 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the Ricardo Henriques Lab as a PhD Student to work on the VirusAwareScopes project, developing machine learning-driven adaptive microscopy for viral infection studies


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Tayla Shakespeare joins the lab as Postdoc

Tayla Shakespeare joins the lab as Postdoc

Posted on Sat 01 November 2025 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Tayla Shakespeare joins the Ricardo Henriques Lab as a Postdoc, bringing expertise in expansion microscopy and receptor trafficking from her PhD at the University of Sheffield


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António Brito mAIcrobe Preprint Released

António Brito mAIcrobe Preprint Released

Posted on Wed 29 October 2025 in news • Tagged with preprint, phd

António Brito's preprint on mAIcrobe has been released, coinciding with his PhD work presentation at the ITQB NOVA PhD Meeting.


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IMS2026 Life Sciences Microscopy Symposium at ITQB NOVA

IMS2026 Life Sciences Microscopy Symposium at ITQB NOVA

Posted on Tue 21 October 2025 in news • Tagged with event, microscopy, symposium

IMS2026 at ITQB NOVA - Life Sciences Microscopy symposium on March 19, 2026 with presentations, workshops, and live demonstrations.


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