Research Team


Mariana Pinho

Mariana Pinho

Group Leader

ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal

Team members collaborating with Mariana Pinho:


António D. Brito

António D. Brito

PhD Student
FCT Fellowship

Christoph Spahn

Christoph Spahn

Postdoc (now PI)
EMBO Fellowship

Lucas von Chamier

Lucas von Chamier

PhD Student
MRC-LMCB Studentship

Mariana Ferreira

Mariana Ferreira

Software Engineer
H2021 AI4Life Grant funded

Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

Postdoc (now PI)
BBSRC Grant

Romain F. Laine

Romain F. Laine

Postdoc
MRC Fellowship


Joint researchers:


António D. Brito

António D. Brito

PhD Student
FCT Fellowship


Publications with our group:


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
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
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 and ZeroCostDL4Mic
Funded by: CZI, ERC, FCT 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
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