Research Team


Jason Mercer

Jason Mercer

Group Leader

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Joint researchers:


David Albrecht

David Albrecht

Postdoc
Marie Curie Fellowship

Jerzy Samolej

Jerzy Samolej

PhD Student
BBSRC LIDo Studentship

Kalina Tosheva

Kalina Tosheva

PhD Student
MRC-LMCB Studentship

Robert Gray

Robert Gray

PhD Student
UCL CoMPLEX Studentship


Publications with our group (see more on Google Scholar):


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, January 2019
Technologies: NanoJ and NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
Blogs: Nature Microbiology Community
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0488-4
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: CARE, NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF, NanoJ-VirusMapper and QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab0261
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: NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics and NanoJ-SQUIRREL
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00675
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, January 2018
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-SQUIRREL and QuickPALM
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: physicsworld.com
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4605
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
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