Research Team


Bruno M. Saraiva

Bruno M. Saraiva

Postdoc


Started in: May 2022

Funding: ERC Grant


Bruno is a 4th-year Postdoc in our research group. Worked on 6 publications. Contributed to 4 technologies. Raised 1 grant. Collaborates with 5 labs. Mentored 1 PhD Student, 1 Masters Student, 1 Software Engineer.

My main focus is developing new tools for bioimage analysis that can empower life science researchers.


Latest news

  • 2025-02-28: News outlet EUTOPIA highlights Saraiva et al. Nature Methods 2025 [external link]
  • 2025-01-25: News outlet Tempo.pt highlights Saraiva et al. Nature Methods 2025 [external link]
  • 2025-01-09: News outlet Nouvelles du monde highlights Saraiva et al. Nature Methods 2025 [external link]
  • 2025-01-06: News outlet RTP highlights Saraiva et al. Nature Methods 2025 [external link]

Supervisees

António D. Brito

António D. Brito

PhD Student
FCT Fellowship

Inês Cunha

Inês Cunha

Masters Student
EMBO Installation Grant

Mariana Ferreira

Mariana Ferreira

Software Engineer
H2021 AI4Life Grant funded


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

Mariana Pinho

Mariana Pinho

ITQB NOVA
Oeiras, Portugal

Joint: 5 1 2

Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

ITQB NOVA
Oeiras, Portugal

Joint: 9 3


Technologies

Rxiv-Maker Rxiv-Maker Newest update: 2025-07-05
NanoPyx NanoPyx Newest update: 2025-07-02
SReD SReD Newest update: 2025-07-01
Rescale4DL Rescale4DL Newest update: 2025-04-24

Latest publications with our group (see more on Google Scholar)

Rxiv-Maker: an automated template engine for streamlined scientific publications
Bruno M. Saraiva, Guillaume Jacquemet, Ricardo Henriques
Preprint published in Zenodo, July 2025
Technologies: Rxiv-Maker ()
Funded by: CZI, EMBO, ERC, H2021 and H2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15805470
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
ReScale4DL - Balancing Pixel and Contextual Information for Enhanced Bioimage Segmentation
Mariana G. Ferreira, Bruno M. Saraiva, António D. Brito, Mariana G. Pinho, Ricardo Henriques, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal
Preprint published in bioRxiv, April 2025
Technologies: BioImage Model Zoo (), DeepBacs (), DL4MicEverywhere (), NanoPyx (), Rescale4DL () and ZeroCostDL4Mic ()
Funded by: CZI, EMBO, ERC, H2021 and H2022
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.09.647871
Efficiently accelerated bioimage analysis with NanoPyx, a Liquid Engine-powered Python framework
Bruno M. Saraiva, Inês Cunha, António D. Brito, Gautier Follain, Raquel Portela, Robert Haase, Pedro M. Pereira, Guillaume Jacquemet, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Methods, January 2025
Technologies: Fast4DReg (), NanoJ (), NanoJ-eSRRF (), NanoJ-SQUIRREL () and NanoPyx ()
Funded by: CZI, EMBO, ERC, FCT, H2021 and H2022
News: Tempo.pt, Nouvelles du monde and RTP
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02562-6
Cell constriction requires processive septal peptidoglycan synthase movement independent of FtsZ treadmilling in Staphylococcus aureus
Simon Schäper, António D. Brito, Bruno M. Saraiva, Georgia R. Squyres, Matthew J. Holmes, Ethan C. Garner, Zach Hensel, Ricardo Henriques, Mariana G. Pinho
Paper published in Nature Microbiology, March 2024
Technologies: NanoJ ()
Funded by: EMBO and ERC
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01629-6
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eHooke - A tool for automated image analysis of spherical bacteria based on cell cycle progression
Bruno M. Saraiva, Ludwig Krippahl, Sérgio R. Filipe, Ricardo Henriques, Mariana G. Pinho
Paper published in Biological Imaging, September 2021
Funded by: ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1017/s2633903x21000027

Latest funding with our group

Cutting-edge super-resolution image analysis in napari through NanoJ
Bruno Saraiva, Ricardo Henriques
Funded by: CZI - Applications - napari Plugin Foundations grants
Duration: January 2023 - December 2023
Publications: 4