Super-Beacons and Beacon-STORM - a new generation of small tunable photoswitching probes and Super-Resolution approaches


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Agency: BBSRC
Type: New Investigator Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Ricardo Henriques
Start-date: January 2016
End-date: December 2018

We propose developing Super-Beacons, a new fluorescent probe for faster, multicolor, live-cell super-resolution imaging. Beacon-STORM, a new analytical framework, will take advantage of Super-Beacon properties for improved resolution. Super-Beacons and Beacon-STORM will be applied to image clathrin-mediated endocytosis dynamics to reveal receptor clustering requirements. This will enhance super-resolution microscopy and its application in cell biology.

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Supported publications


FtsZ treadmilling is essential for Z-ring condensation and septal constriction initiation in Bacillus subtilis cell division
Kevin D. Whitley, Calum Jukes, Nicholas Tregidgo, Eleni Karinou, Pedro Almada, Yann Cesbron, Ricardo Henriques, Cees Dekker, Séamus Holden
Paper published in Nature Communications, April 2021
Technologies: CARE and DeepAutoFocus
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Nanowerk
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22526-0
Super‐beacons - Open‐source probes with spontaneous tuneable blinking compatible with live‐cell super‐resolution microscopy
Pedro M Pereira, Nils Gustafsson, Mark Marsh, Musa M Mhlanga, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Traffic, January 2020
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and Super-Beacons
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12728
Nuclear pores as versatile reference standards for quantitative superresolution microscopy
Jervis Vermal Thevathasan, Maurice Kahnwald, Konstanty Cieśliński, Philipp Hoess, Sudheer Kumar Peneti, Manuel Reitberger, Daniel Heid, Krishna Chaitanya Kasuba, Sarah Janice Hoerner, Yiming Li, Yu-Le Wu, Markus Mund, Ulf Matti, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques, Bianca Nijmeijer, Moritz Kueblbeck, Vilma Jimenez Sabinina, Jan Ellenberg, Jonas Ries
Paper published in Nature Methods, September 2019
Technologies: CARE, NanoJ, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and Nuclear-Pores as references
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Mirage News
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0574-9
Nanoscale polarization of the entry fusion complex of vaccinia virus drives efficient fusion
Robert D. M. Gray, David Albrecht, Corina Beerli, Moona Huttunen, Gary H. Cohen, Ian J. White, Jemima J. Burden, Ricardo Henriques, Jason Mercer
Paper published in Nature Microbiology, July 2019
Technologies: NanoJ and NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
Blogs: Nature Microbiology Community
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0488-4
Super-resolution fight club - assessment of 2D and 3D single-molecule localization microscopy software
Daniel Sage, Thanh-An Pham, Hazen Babcock, Tomas Lukes, Thomas Pengo, Jerry Chao, Ramraj Velmurugan, Alex Herbert, Anurag Agrawal, Silvia Colabrese, Ann Wheeler, Anna Archetti, Bernd Rieger, Raimund Ober, Guy M. Hagen, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Jonas Ries, Ricardo Henriques, Michael Unser, Seamus Holden
Paper published in Nature Methods, April 2019
Technologies: NanoJ-SRRF and QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0364-4
Automating multimodal microscopy with NanoJ-Fluidics
Pedro Almada, Pedro M. Pereira, Siân Culley, Ghislaine Caillol, Fanny Boroni-Rueda, Christina L. Dix, Guillaume Charras, Buzz Baum, Romain F. Laine, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Communications, March 2019
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Technology Times, MSN, DNYUZ and Express Informer
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09231-9
NanoJ - a high-performance open-source super-resolution microscopy toolbox
Romain F Laine, Kalina L Tosheva, Nils Gustafsson, Robert D M Gray, Pedro Almada, David Albrecht, Gabriel T Risa, Fredrik Hurtig, Ann-Christin Lindås, Buzz Baum, Jason Mercer, Christophe Leterrier, Pedro M Pereira, Siân Culley, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics, January 2019
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF, NanoJ-VirusMapper and QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab0261
TMEM16F activation by Ca2+ triggers plasma membrane expansion and directs PD-1 trafficking
Christopher Bricogne, Michael Fine, Pedro M. Pereira, Julia Sung, Maha Tijani, Youxue Wang, Ricardo Henriques, Mary K. Collins, Donald W. Hilgemann
Paper published in Scientific Reports, January 2019
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37056-x
A hidden Markov model approach to characterizing the photo-switching behavior of fluorophores
Lekha Patel, Nils Gustafsson, Yu Lin, Raimund Ober, Ricardo Henriques, Edward Cohen
Published in The annals of applied statistics, January 2019
Technologies: CARE
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1214/19-AOAS1240
Fix your membrane receptor imaging - actin cytoskeleton and CD4 membrane organization disruption by chemical fixation
Pedro M Pereira, David Albrecht, Siân Culley, Caron Jacobs, Mark Marsh, Jason Mercer, Ricardo Henriques
Published in Frontiers in immunology, January 2019
Technologies: CARE, NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics and NanoJ-SQUIRREL
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00675
Content-aware image restoration - pushing the limits of fluorescence microscopy
Martin Weigert, Uwe Schmidt, Tobias Boothe, Andreas Müller, Alexandr Dibrov, Akanksha Jain, Benjamin Wilhelm, Deborah Schmidt, Coleman Broaddus, Siân Culley, Mauricio Rocha-Martins, Fabián Segovia-Miranda, Caren Norden, Ricardo Henriques, Marino Zerial, Michele Solimena, Jochen Rink, Pavel Tomancak, Loic Royer, Florian Jug, Eugene W. Myers
Paper published in Nature Methods, November 2018
Technologies: CARE, NanoJ-SQUIRREL and NanoJ-SRRF
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Technology Networks, VBIO, Innovations Report and Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-018-0216-7
Heterogeneous localisation of membrane proteins in Staphylococcus aureus
Felix Weihs, Katarzyna Wacnik, Robert D. Turner, Siân Culley, Ricardo Henriques, Simon J. Foster
Paper published in Scientific Reports, February 2018
Technologies: NanoJ and NanoJ-SRRF
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21750-x
Quantitative mapping and minimization of super-resolution optical imaging artifacts
Siân Culley, David Albrecht, Caron Jacobs, Pedro Matos Pereira, Christophe Leterrier, Jason Mercer, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Methods, February 2018
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: physicsworld.com
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4605
SRRF - Universal live-cell super-resolution microscopy
Siân Culley, Kalina L Tosheva, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, January 2018
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-SQUIRREL and NanoJ-SRRF
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2018.05.014
The role of mitotic cell-substrate adhesion re-modeling in animal cell division
Christina L Dix, Helen K Matthews, Marina Uroz, Susannah McLaren, Lucie Wolf, Nicholas Heatley, Zaw Win, Pedro Almada, Ricardo Henriques, Michael Boutros
Published in Developmental cell, January 2018
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.03.009
Septins recognize and entrap dividing bacterial cells for delivery to lysosomes
Sina Krokowski, Damian Lobato-Marquez, Arnaud Chastanet, Pedro Matos Pereira, Dimitrios Angelis, Dieter Galea, Gerald Larrouy-Maumus, Ricardo Henriques, Elias T Spiliotis, Rut Carballido-Lopez, Serge Mostowy
Published in Cell host & microbe, January 2018
Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.11.005
Open-source single-particle analysis for super-resolution microscopy with VirusMapper
Robert DM Gray, Jason Mercer, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in JoVE, January 2017
Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.3791/55471
K63-Linked Ubiquitination Targets Toxoplasma gondii for Endo-lysosomal Destruction in IFNγ-Stimulated Human Cells
Barbara Clough, Joseph D. Wright, Pedro M. Pereira, Elizabeth M. Hirst, Ashleigh C. Johnston, Ricardo Henriques, Eva-Maria Frickel
Paper published in PLOS Pathogens, November 2016
Funded by: BBSRC
News: Phys.org and Bionity
Blogs: The Toxoplasma Blog
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006027
HIV-1 Nef Impairs the Formation of Calcium Membrane Territories Controlling the Signaling Nanoarchitecture at the Immunological Synapse
Joana G. Silva, Nuno P. Martins, Ricardo Henriques, Helena Soares
Paper published in The Journal of Immunology, October 2016
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601132
Fast live-cell conventional fluorophore nanoscopy with ImageJ through super-resolution radial fluctuations
Nils Gustafsson, Siân Culley, George Ashdown, Dylan M. Owen, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Communications, August 2016
Technologies: QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC
News: Azom.com
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12471
Infection Counter - Automated Quantification of in Vitro Virus Replication by Fluorescence Microscopy
Siân Culley, Greg Towers, David Selwood, Ricardo Henriques, Joe Grove
Paper published in Viruses, July 2016
Technologies: Infection-Counter
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.3390/v8070201
VirusMapper - open-source nanoscale mapping of viral architecture through super-resolution microscopy
Robert DM Gray, Corina Beerli, Pedro Matos Pereira, Kathrin Maria Scherer, Jerzy Samolej, Christopher Karl Ernst Bleck, Jason Mercer, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Scientific reports, January 2016
Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1038/srep29132
Super-resolution microscopy reveals a preformed NEMO lattice structure that is collapsed in incontinentia pigmenti
Janine Scholefield, Ricardo Henriques, Anca F Savulescu, Elisabeth Fontan, Alix Boucharlat, Emmanuel Laplantine, Asma Smahi, Alain Israël, Fabrice Agou, Musa M Mhlanga
Paper published in Nature Communications, January 2016
Technologies: QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC and FCT
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12629
Mitochondria mediate septin cage assembly to promote autophagy of Shigella
Andrea Sirianni, Sina Krokowski, Damián Lobato‐Márquez, Stephen Buranyi, Julia Pfanzelter, Dieter Galea, Alexandra Willis, Siân Culley, Ricardo Henriques, Gerald Larrouy‐Maumus, Michael Hollinshead, Vanessa Sancho‐Shimizu, Michael Way, Serge Mostowy
Paper published in EMBO reports, January 2016
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201541832