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Mario Del Rosario starts his own lab at Åbo Akademi

Posted on Tue 12 May 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Mario Del Rosario leaves the Henriques Lab to lead his own bioimaging group at Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship Centre in Finland


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Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal starts her own lab at NIMSB

Posted on Thu 16 April 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal leaves the Henriques Lab to lead the AI and Microscopy for Biomedical Discovery group at the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology


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Henriques Lab Awarded La Caixa Health Research Grant

Posted on Thu 20 November 2025 in news • Tagged with grant, funding

The Henriques Lab has been awarded a La Caixa Foundation Health Research grant to develop AI-powered microscopes that automatically adjust lighting parameters during imaging.


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Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the lab as PhD Student

Posted on Sat 01 November 2025 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the Ricardo Henriques Lab as a PhD Student to work on the VirusAwareScopes project, developing machine learning-driven adaptive microscopy for viral infection studies


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Tayla Shakespeare joins the lab as Postdoc

Posted on Sat 01 November 2025 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Tayla Shakespeare joins the Ricardo Henriques Lab as a Postdoc, bringing expertise in expansion microscopy and receptor trafficking from her PhD at the University of Sheffield


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António Brito mAIcrobe Preprint Released

Posted on Wed 29 October 2025 in news • Tagged with preprint, phd

António Brito's preprint on mAIcrobe has been released, coinciding with his PhD work presentation at the ITQB NOVA PhD Meeting.


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IMS2026 Life Sciences Microscopy Symposium at ITQB NOVA

Posted on Tue 21 October 2025 in news • Tagged with event, microscopy, symposium

IMS2026 at ITQB NOVA - Life Sciences Microscopy symposium on March 19, 2026 with presentations, workshops, and live demonstrations.


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Carolina Prieto Wahnon de Morais joins the lab as Masters Student

Posted on Wed 01 October 2025 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Carolina Prieto Wahnon de Morais joins the Ricardo Henriques Lab as a Masters Student funded by the ERC grant


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Mario Del Rosario and Daria Aristova Complete StartUp Research Program

Posted on Wed 06 August 2025 in news • Tagged with entrepreneurship, training

Mario Del Rosario and Daria Aristova completed the StartUp Research Program developed by ITQB NOVA and NOVA SBE, presenting their startup project to venture capital experts.


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Mario Del Rosario and Raquel Portela win ITQB NOVA's Early Career Researcher Award (ECRA)

Posted on Tue 08 July 2025 in news • Tagged with news, lab, award, microbiology, ECRA, ITQB NOVA

Researchers Mario Del Rosario and Raquel Portela have been honored with the Early Career Researcher Award (ECRA) from the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA). The award recognizes their collaborative project on monitoring cellular stress during bacterial infection using advanced imaging and AI.


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