Research Team
Pedro Matos Pereira is a group leader at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial infections. His lab uses a combination of cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics and advanced microscopy techniques to study the molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial infections.
Team members collaborating with Pedro Matos Pereira:
Publications with our group (see more on Google Scholar):
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Nanoscale colocalization of NK cell activating and inhibitory receptors controls signal integration David Tomaz, Pedro Matos Pereira, Nadia Guerra, Julian Dyson, Keith Gould, Ricardo Henriques Paper published in Frontiers in Immunology, January 2022 Technologies: NanoJ () and NanoJ-SQUIRREL () Funded by: BBSRC, EMBO and ERC DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.868496 |
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Between life and death - strategies to reduce phototoxicity in super-resolution microscopy Kalina L Tosheva, Yue Yuan, Pedro Matos Pereira, Siân Culley, Ricardo Henriques Review published in Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics, January 2020 Technologies: CARE (), NanoJ (), NanoJ-Fluidics () and NanoJ-SRRF () Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab6b95 |
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An Introduction to Live-Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Siân Culley, Pedro Matos Pereira, Romain F Laine, Ricardo Henriques Book chapter published in Imaging from Cells to Animals In Vivo, January 2020 Technologies: CARE (), NanoJ (), NanoJ-Fluidics (), NanoJ-SQUIRREL () and QuickPALM DOI: 10.1201/9781315174662-4 |
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Nuclear pores as versatile reference standards for quantitative superresolution microscopy Jervis Vermal Thevathasan, Maurice Kahnwald, Konstanty Cieśliński, Philipp Hoess, Sudheer Kumar Peneti, Manuel Reitberger, Daniel Heid, Krishna Chaitanya Kasuba, Sarah Janice Hoerner, Yiming Li, Yu-Le Wu, Markus Mund, Ulf Matti, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques, Bianca Nijmeijer, Moritz Kueblbeck, Vilma Jimenez Sabinina, Jan Ellenberg, Jonas Ries Paper published in Nature Methods, September 2019 Technologies: CARE (), NanoJ (), NanoJ-SQUIRREL (), NanoJ-SRRF () and Nuclear-Pores as references Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust News: Mirage News DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0574-9 |
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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, February 2018 Technologies: NanoJ-SQUIRREL (), NanoJ-SRRF () and QuickPALM Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust News: physicsworld.com DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4605 |
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SRRF - Universal live-cell super-resolution microscopy Siân Culley, Kalina L Tosheva, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques Paper published in The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, January 2018 Technologies: NanoJ-SQUIRREL () and NanoJ-SRRF () Funded by: BBSRC and Wellcome Trust DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2018.05.014 |
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Septins recognize and entrap dividing bacterial cells for delivery to lysosomes Sina Krokowski, Damian Lobato-Marquez, Arnaud Chastanet, Pedro Matos Pereira, Dimitrios Angelis, Dieter Galea, Gerald Larrouy-Maumus, Ricardo Henriques, Elias T Spiliotis, Rut Carballido-Lopez, Serge Mostowy Published in Cell host & microbe, January 2018 Technologies: NanoJ-VirusMapper Funded by: BBSRC DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.11.005 |
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Fast live-cell conventional fluorophore nanoscopy with ImageJ through super-resolution radial fluctuations Nils Gustafsson, Siân Culley, George Ashdown, Dylan M. Owen, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques Paper published in Nature Communications, August 2016 Technologies: NanoJ-SRRF () and QuickPALM Funded by: BBSRC News: Azom.com DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12471 |
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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 |
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Funding with our group
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Quinoline-Derived Foldamers - A novel approach to combat antibiotic multiresistant and persistent Pedro M. Mateus, Pedro Matos Pereira, Ricardo Henriques Funded by: FCT - LS4Future Seed Funding Duration: March 2024 - September 2024 |
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High-resolution single-molecule imaging via 3D printing Simao Coelho, Ricardo Henriques, Pedro Matos Pereira Funded by: InnOValley - Proof of Concept Duration: July 2022 - December 2023 Publications: 1 |
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Investigating the mechanisms underpinning the interaction between autonomous immunity and intracellular S. aureus cell division and persistence Pedro Matos Pereira, João Paulo Santos Fadista, Mário José Ferreira, Moritz Sorg, Patricia Reed, Pedro Fernandes, Ricardo Henriques Funded by: FCT - R&D Projects Duration: March 2021 - February 2024 Publications: 3 |