Research Team


Pedro Almada

Pedro Almada

PhD Student


Started in: October 2013

Ended in: September 2017

Funding: BBSRC LIDo Studentship


Pedro was a 4-year PhD Student in our research group. Was supervised by Ricardo Henriques and Guillaume Charras. Thesis can be found here. Worked on 6 publications. Contributed to 3 technologies. Raised 1 grant. Collaborated with 5 labs.

In the news


Collaborations

Buzz Baum

Buzz Baum

MRC-LMB
Cambridge, UK

Joint: 7 3 1

Christophe Leterrier

Christophe Leterrier

Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, INP
Marseille, France

Joint: 10

Jason Mercer

Jason Mercer

University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK

Joint: 6 4

Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

ITQB NOVA
Oeiras, Portugal

Joint: 20 3

Séamus Holden

Séamus Holden

Warwick University
Warwick, UK

Joint: 5


Technologies

DeepAutoFocus DeepAutoFocus Newest update: 2024-07-15
NanoJ NanoJ Newest update: 2024-03-22
NanoJ-Fluidics NanoJ-Fluidics Newest update: 2019-04-04

Publications with our group

FtsZ treadmilling is essential for Z-ring condensation and septal constriction initiation in Bacillus subtilis cell division
Kevin D. Whitley, Calum Jukes, Nicholas Tregidgo, Eleni Karinou, Pedro Almada, Yann Cesbron, Ricardo Henriques, Cees Dekker, Séamus Holden
Paper published in Nature Communications, April 2021
Technologies: DeepAutoFocus
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Nanowerk
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22526-0
Automating multimodal microscopy with NanoJ-Fluidics
Pedro Almada, Pedro M. Pereira, Siân Culley, Ghislaine Caillol, Fanny Boroni-Rueda, Christina L. Dix, Guillaume Charras, Buzz Baum, Romain F. Laine, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Communications, March 2019
Technologies: NanoJ, NanoJ-Fluidics, NanoJ-SQUIRREL, NanoJ-SRRF and NanoJ-VirusMapper
Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
News: Technology Times, MSN, DNYUZ and Express Informer
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09231-9
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
The role of mitotic cell-substrate adhesion re-modeling in animal cell division
Christina L Dix, Helen K Matthews, Marina Uroz, Susannah McLaren, Lucie Wolf, Nicholas Heatley, Zaw Win, Pedro Almada, Ricardo Henriques, Michael Boutros, Xavier Trepat, Buzz Baum
Published in Developmental cell, January 2018
Funded by: BBSRC
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.03.009
PALM and STORM - Into large fields and high-throughput microscopy with sCMOS detectors
Pedro Almada, Siân Culley, Ricardo Henriques
Review published in Methods, January 2015
Technologies: QuickPALM
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.06.004
High-content 3D multicolor super-resolution localization microscopy
Pedro M Pereira, Pedro Almada, Ricardo Henriques
Book chapter published in Methods in cell biology, January 2015
Technologies: QuickPALM

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