Research Team


Afonso Mendes

Afonso Mendes

PhD Student


Started in: February 2021

Funding: ERC Grant


Afonso is a 5th-year PhD Student in our research group. Is supervised by Ricardo Henriques, João Mamede and Maria João Amorim. Worked on 3 publications. Contributed to 1 technology. Collaborates with 4 labs.

Afonso is interested in studying the assembly and functionality of supramolecular complexes between host and pathogen factors. His approach involves the development and application of super-resolution microscopy guided by machine-learning algorithms to describe these structures at the nanometer scale.


Latest news

  • 2022-09-30: Best poster award at SMLMS2022 - Afonso Mendes [external link]

Collaborations

Christophe Leterrier

Christophe Leterrier

Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, INP
Marseille, France

Joint: 10

Guillaume Jacquemet

Guillaume Jacquemet

Abo Akademi University
Turku, Finland

Joint: 17 1

João Mamede

João Mamede

Rush University
Chicago, USA

Joint: 1 1

Maria João Amorim

Maria João Amorim

Católica Biomedical Res. Centre (CBR)
Oeiras, Portugal

Joint: 2


Technologies

SReD SReD Newest update: 2025-07-01

Latest publications with our group

Structural Repetition Detector for multi-scale quantitative mapping of molecular complexes through microscopy
Afonso Mendes, Bruno M. Saraiva, Guillaume Jacquemet, João I. Mamede, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Communications, July 2025
Technologies: Nuclear-Pores as references and SReD ()
Funded by: CZI, EMBO, ERC, H2021 and H2022
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60709-1
Mapping molecular complexes with super-resolution microscopy and single-particle analysis
Afonso Mendes, Hannah S. Heil, Simao Coelho, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques
Review published in Open Biology, July 2022
Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper, Nuclear-Pores as references and ZeroCostDL4Mic ()
Funded by: EMBO, ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.220079
The field guide to 3D printing in microscopy
Mario Del Rosario, Hannah S Heil, Afonso Mendes, Vittorio Saggiomo, Ricardo Henriques
Review published in Adv. Biol., January 2021
Technologies: CARE (), NanoJ (), NanoJ-Fluidics () and NanoJ-SRRF ()
Funded by: EMBO, ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202100994