AI-driven Optical Biology Lab

Last 3 days to register for 𝐈𝐌𝐒𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 symposium organized by
@itqbnova.bsky.social.
DON´T miss these amazing researchers on 19/03: @seamusholden.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @silvapereiralab.bsky.social, @pinholab.bsky.social, @henriqueslab.bsky.social.

🔗: ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org

Congrats to the newest PhD graduate at our lab, supervised by
@henriqueslab.bsky.social, now Dr. @afonsomendes92.bsky.social!👨🏼‍🎓👏

His research work culminated in the publication of #SReD in
Nature Communications. Read here: tinyurl.com/NatureSRed

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social
@itqbnova.bsky.social

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀?🤔

🧫Expansion Microscopy🦾3D Printing🔬Microscopy Demos🖼️AI Image Analysis🦠Sample Enhancement

Join us at @itqbnova.bsky.social for 2 days of live demos, workshops and expert talks in 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 or 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻-𝗼𝗻-𝗮-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗽.

Register now: shorturl.at/tPTEQ

Do you know how far phototoxicity can hinder your experiments?🤔 @mariodelr.bsky.social and @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social have just published their work on #PhotoFiTT in @natcomms.nature.com where they explain how to quantitatively measure it in live-cell imaging.⚡🧫🔬

Read more at: shorturl.at/ly9Zn

Raquel Portela e Mario del Rosario, ITQB NOVA: “Transformar o microscópio num sensor inteligente” Em entrevista exclusiva ao Healthnews, os investigadores Raquel Portela e Mario del Rosario do ITQB NOVA apresentam o InfectoFiTT, uma ferramenta de IA que monitoriza em tempo real o impacto das infeç...

Our Researcher @mariodelr.bsky.social and Raquel Portela from @microbematos.bsky.social were invited by @healthnewspt.bsky.social to talk about their new collaboration project awarded by Early Career Research Award, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗙𝗶𝗧𝗧.

Read the full interview at: tinyurl.com/infectofitt

Great news for @aiopticalbiolab.bsky.social! @henriqueslab.bsky.social has been awarded #HealthResearch grant from @caixaresearch.bsky.social.🎉

This milestone strengthens the pursue of our scientific objectives and represents an important step forward for the future of our lab.🔬 #laCaixaFoundation

Congrats to @henriqueslab.bsky.social for the @caixaresearch.bsky.social Health grant! 👏

The project will use AI to create smart microscopes that automatically adjust their lighting in real time, letting us watch the viral infection process over days.

🔗Know more: shorturl.at/yi9Rz

Just in time for the presentation of his PhD work at the 𝗜𝗧𝗤𝗕 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, our researcher António Brito’s paper on #mAIcrobe🦠 has just been released.

Project developed by the research groups of
@pinholab.bsky.social and @henriqueslab.bsky.social

👇Learn more about it in the post below.👇

🚀🔬 Announcing #IMS2026 at @itqbnova.bsky.social! We're assembling a #LifeSciences #Microscopy symposium packed with ✨ speakers and 🧑‍🔬 workshops. All about imaging cells with photons, electrons and AI! If you love microscopy, you need to be here. Join us on March 19!
ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org

🤝🏼 This event is made possible thanks to the support of Izasa Scientific by Palex and collaboration with Bacterial Imaging Cluster (BIC) and MostMicro at @itqbnova.bsky.social

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵?🤔

Discover imaging techniques that will unlock new directions in your work. Join us for two immersive days of live demonstrations,expert talks and hands-on workshops.🔬

📝Register at: ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org

The 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗢𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 was the last outreach event at our lab with @mariodelr.bsky.social, @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social, Daria Aristova and Damián Martínez.👩‍🔬👩‍💻
Having scientists from diverse fields showcasing the range of work being developed in our institute was truly inspiring🤩

Last week, @mariodelr.bsky.social & Raquel Portela (@microbematos.bsky.social IMIB group) presented their ECRA-award collaboration project, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗙𝗶𝗧𝗧 at the 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝘆.
The event happened in Oeiras at Santo Amaro Beach and was organized by @itqbnova.bsky.social & #CMOeiras

What if artificial intelligence could tell how bacteria infect our cells?

Raquel Portela and Mario Del Rosario, winners of the ECRA Prize's 6th edition, are developing a tool to observe in real time the harmful effects of bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus in our cells. 🔬🦠

🔗 shorturl.at/sIIMK

👏Congratulations to researchers @mariodelr.bsky.social and Daria Aristova for their post-graduation in the StartUp Research Program developed by @itqbnova.bsky.social and NOVA SBE.

They had to develop a startup project and present it to a panel of experts and venture capital representatives.🎯

🏖️ July at @itqbnova.bsky.social means Summer Science-summer's internship programme for undergraduates. Our lab welcomed one motivated student supervised by @mariodelr.bsky.social.

👩‍🔬Students got to experience 27h of hands-on lab work and a sailing baptism!⛵ Read about it at:https://shorturl.at/n55Qj

🚨Join us! We're soon opening 3 postdoctoral positions in #AIDrivenBiology. Seeking biologists (especially microbiology and infection biology), computer scientists, and microscopy developers. Ideal candidates are those eager to use or develop next-gen tech for cell biology. Get in touch (DM/email)

Last Friday, 4th of July, we celebrated
#ITQBNOVADay! 🎉

Our community gathered to award prizes, pay tribute to
staff members and look back on some of the most
memorable moments of the past year.🏅👏

The day ended with our traditional "arraial" and lots of
fun! 🎶

Last Friday we celebrated @itqbnova.bsky.social Day!🎂🥂
In the ceremony,𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗔 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 was awarded to researchers @mariodelr.bsky.social & Raquel Portela (from @microbematos.bsky.social IMIB group) in recognition of their outstanding proposal: InfectoFITT.🏅
Award sponsored by #OeirasValley and #Sarstedt

🧾New paper now on ‪‪‪‪Nature Protocols ‬🎉The #ExSRRF protocol gives you all details on how to merge Expansion Microscopy technique with #eSSRF analysis. Developed by Dominik Kylies, @puellesv.bsky.social and @hannah-superres.bsky.social, @henriqueslab.bsky.social

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's here! ✨
The #ExSRRF protocol paper is out 😍. Full details for merging Expansion Microscopy with our eSRRF analysis. From cells to tissue. A partnership with @puellesv.bsky.social's lab. Lead by Dominik Kylies and @hannah-superres.bsky.social + colleagues. #ExM #eSRRF
➡️ Open link: rdcu.be/euvEw

Our researcher @afonsomendes92.bsky.social & collaborator @christlet.bsky.social just published on @natcomms.nature.com.🙌 They developed a new analysis tool that automatically finds repeating patterns in structures in biological images without prior knowledge.
Read it at: nature.com/articles/s41...

New pre-print alert 🚨 @henriqueslab.bsky.social and @guijacquemet.bsky.social just published a pre-print on framework to auto generate pre-prints from simple text. Interested to use it for your research?

📃Read more about it at: zenodo.org/records/1575...

In the past week we welcomed students from Escola Amélia Rey Colaço at @itqbnova.bsky.social.
Researchers @mariodelr.bsky.social & Daria demonstrated the principle expansion microscopy was originated from- 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀👶 We have our lab doors open to young minds to show them how research can be fun!👩‍🔬

#OeirasValleyScienceFestival was a blast!
With 22.000 participants, the energy was incredible.
@henriqueslab.bsky.social delivered an amazing talk and researchers Daria and @mariodelr.bsky.social were busy all day sharing the wonders of microscopy🔬with diapers🍼- Curious to know how they relate?🤔💭

Do not miss 𝗢𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹:

📅On the 25th of May at 10:50 @henriqueslab.bsky.social will talk in a roundtable session about 𝗔I 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵.
👩‍🔬Meanwhile researchers Daria Aristova & @mariodelr.bsky.social will be representing our lab at @itqbnova.bsky.social stand. 🫵COME SEE US!

Over this break, @mariodelr.bsky.social & Mariana Ferreira engaged in an outreach activity under the scope of Oeiras mun. project "Universidade de Primavera".
Students became scientists for a day, observed their own cells and explored the new technology for bioplastics at @itqbnova.bsky.social. 🧫🔬

Following the release of @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social and Mariana Ferreira #ReScale4DL work, Estibaliz shared her view on "FAIR and high-quality AI-ready data for bioimage analysis" on the 4-part @ai4life.bsky.social webinar series in collab with #GloBIAS 📅 Don´t miss the next one at: t.co/9TdywIGrgy

🎉Congratulations to our researchers Mariana Ferreira and
@gomez-mariscal.bsky.social for their #ReScale4DL work available on pre-print at @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🧐 Find out how down-sampling data can improve your high-resolution imaging at biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#BioImageAnalysis #DL #AI

Our group leader @henriqueslab.bsky.social was the most recent guest of "90 segundos de ciência", a podcast broadcasted in the national radio by #RTP, #Antena1.

Click in the link below to find out how our lab uses #ArtificialIntelligence to improve cell imaging using microscopy! 🦠🔬
buff.ly/ZaHToof