Research Team
Afonso is a 5th-year PhD Student in our research group. Is supervised by Ricardo Henriques, João Mamede and Maria João Amorim. Worked on 4 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
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, INP
Marseille, France
Joint:
11

Maria João Amorim
Católica Biomedical Res. Centre (CBR)
Oeiras, Portugal
Joint:
2
Technologies
Latest publications with our group
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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, Julho 2025 Technologies: Nuclear-Pores as references and SReD () Funded by: CZI, EMBO, H2021 and H2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60709-1 |
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Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton Theresa Wiesner, Christopher Louis Parperis, Fanny Boroni-Rueda, Nicolas Jullien, Afonso Mendes, Léa Marie, Louisa Mezache, Marie-Jeanne Papandréou, Ricardo Henriques, Christophe Leterrier Preprint published in bioRxiv, Janeiro 2025 |
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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, Julho 2022 Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper, Nuclear-Pores as references and ZeroCostDL4Mic () Funded by: EMBO and Wellcome Trust DOI: 10.1098/rsob.220079 |
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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., Janeiro 2021 Technologies: CARE (), NanoJ () and NanoJ-Fluidics () Funded by: EMBO and Wellcome Trust DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202100994 |
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