Research Team


Mariana Pinho

Mariana Pinho

Group Leader

ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal

Joint researchers:


António D. Brito

António D. Brito

PhD Student
FCT Fellowship

Bruno M. Saraiva

Bruno M. Saraiva

Postdoc
ERC Grant


Publications with our group:


Processive movement of Staphylococcus aureus essential septal peptidoglycan synthases is independent of FtsZ treadmilling and drives cell constriction
Simon Schaeper, Antonio D Brito, Bruno M Saraiva, Georgia R Squyres, Matthew J Holmes, Ethan C Garner, Zach Hensel, Ricardo Henriques, Mariana G Pinho
Preprint published in bioRxiv, January 2023
Technologies: NanoJ
Funded by: EMBO and ERC
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.29.547026
DeepBacs for multi-task bacterial image analysis using open-source deep learning approaches
Christoph Spahn, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, Romain F. Laine, Pedro M. Pereira, Lucas von Chamier, Mia Conduit, Mariana G. Pinho, Guillaume Jacquemet, Séamus Holden, Mike Heilemann, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Communications Biology, July 2022
Technologies: BioImage Model Zoo, CARE, DeepBacs, NanoJ, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and ZeroCostDL4Mic
Funded by: CZI, ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03634-z
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
Technologies: CARE
Funded by: ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.1017/s2633903x21000027

Funding with our group

Imaging the structure and dynamics of molecules and complexes in living organisms
Nuno Moreno, Adan Guerrero Cardenas, Adriano Henriques, Antonio Jacinto, Beatriz García Fernández, Emilio José Gualda Manzano, Florence Janody, José Feijó, Lars Jansen, Mariana Pinho, Monica Bettencourt Carvalho Dias, Pedro Almada, Raquel Oliveira, Ricardo Henriques, Sérgio Filipe, Susana Gouveia, Teresa Costa
Funded by: FCT - Projectos de IC&DT de Consolidação de Competências e Recursos em Investigação
Duration: July 2013 - December 2016