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Three new papers: ReScale4DL, Rxiv-Maker and mAIcrobe

Three new papers: ReScale4DL, Rxiv-Maker and mAIcrobe

Posted on Fri 25 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, publications

Three lab papers came out in September 2026: ReScale4DL in Nature Communications, Rxiv-Maker in Journal of Cell Science and mAIcrobe in Communications AI & Computing


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Catarina Sequeira joins the lab as a postdoc

Catarina Sequeira joins the lab as a postdoc

Posted on Mon 14 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember

Catarina Sequeira joins the Henriques Lab as an ERC-funded postdoc to work on phototoxicity measurement, adaptive live imaging and nanoscale mapping of infection


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Nuno P. Martins leaves to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School

Nuno P. Martins leaves to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School

Posted on Tue 01 September 2026 in news • Tagged with news, labmember, alumni

Nuno P. Martins leaves the Henriques Lab to head the microscopy facility at NOVA Medical School in Lisbon


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Mario Del Rosario starts his own lab at Åbo Akademi

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

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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Rita Raymundo Carlota joins the lab as PhD Student

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

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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Carolina Prieto Wahnon de Morais joins the lab as Masters Student

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 Raquel Portela win ITQB NOVA's Early Career Researcher Award (ECRA)

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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Visiting Professor at InFLAMES

Visiting Professor at InFLAMES

Posted on Tue 11 March 2025 in news • Tagged with news, lab

Ricardo Henriques invited to become Visiting Professor at InFLAMES Flagship Programme from Åbo Akademi University


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