Research Team


Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

Group Leader

ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal

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:


António D. Brito

António D. Brito

PhD Student
FCT Fellowship

Caron Jacobs

Caron Jacobs

PhD Student
Commonwealth Scholarship

Christoph Spahn

Christoph Spahn

Postdoc (now PI)
EMBO Fellowship

David Albrecht

David Albrecht

Postdoc
Marie Curie Fellowship

Inês Cunha

Inês Cunha

Masters Student
EMBO Installation Grant

Jerzy Samolej

Jerzy Samolej

PhD Student
BBSRC LIDo Studentship

Kalina Tosheva

Kalina Tosheva

PhD Student
MRC-LMCB Studentship

Leonor Morgado

Leonor Morgado

PhD Student
IGC-Abbelight Partnership

Lucas von Chamier

Lucas von Chamier

PhD Student
MRC-LMCB Studentship

Mario Del Rosario

Mario Del Rosario

Postdoc
ERC Grant

Nils Gustafsson

Nils Gustafsson

PhD Student
UCL CoMPLEX Studentship

Pedro Almada

Pedro Almada

PhD Student
BBSRC LIDo Studentship

Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

Postdoc (now PI)
BBSRC Grant

Romain F. Laine

Romain F. Laine

Postdoc
MRC Fellowship

Robert Gray

Robert Gray

PhD Student
UCL CoMPLEX Studentship

Siân Culley

Siân Culley

Postdoc (now PI)
Wellcome Trust Grant

Yue Yuan

Yue Yuan

PhD Student
Alumni


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


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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Funding with our group

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
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
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