We're moving the Henriques lab to ITQB NOVA

We're moving to Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB) in Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

We already work with several groups there. With Mariana Pinho's group we study how bacteria build their cell wall, using super-resolution microscopy. With Pedro Pereira we develop machine learning methods for bioimage analysis and release them as open-source software.

At ITQB we will keep working on optical cell biology and artificial intelligence: single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), super-resolution radial fluctuations (SRRF), and machine learning to automate image analysis and pull measurements out of microscopy data.

We join the MOSTMICRO research unit, where we plan to apply these methods to host-pathogen interactions, microbial communities, and the mechanisms behind infectious disease.