Ricardo Henriques

🔬🚀 It's out! Run 100s of imaging experiments before touching a microscope. #VLab4Mic reproduces them in silico from PDB/AlphaFold to help you image right first time. From rockstars Damián Martínez & Bruno Saraiva, inaugural preprint of @mariodelr.bsky.social new lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🔬📈 We analysed #microscopy papers to track #bioimage analysis use. ImageJ+Fiji dominate, but others are gaining ground. Researchers undercite them and provide too little detail to reproduce analyses. By Tayla and Bruno, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social lab 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457

Last day to apply: our two ERC-funded Master's fellowships close tonight at 23:59 Lisbon time. For 066 (smart microscopy of infection) we are looking for physicists, engineers and computer scientists. https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472471

Checkout our new preprint 🔬! An eye-opening analysis detailing the adoption of bioimage-analysis tools in microscopy, curated with Bruno Saraiva and @henriqueslab.bsky.social – a thread 🧵: preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457 github: github.com/HenriquesLab/mapping-bioimage-software

Applications close 27 October. Two ERC-funded fellowships let MSc graduates start a PhD at ITQB NOVA in December. Physicists, engineers, computer scientists: one call is yours, building a smart microscope that catches infection live and images it at 20 nm. henriqueslab.org/pages/recruitment.html

The microscope whisperer is live at #SFBS2026!! @christlet.bsky.social

Bruno rocks!!

In their Tools & Resources article, Bruno Saraiva, Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social, Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social and team introduce Rxiv-Maker, their automated template engine for streamlined scientific publications. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#SFBS2026: Time for @henriqueslab.bsky.social to blow our minds with the stunning suite of approaches his lab developed in less than 10 years: (e)SRRF, DL4Mic, SReD, NanoPyx, VLab4Mic. Starting with the legendary SMLM Eiffel tower! henriqueslab.org

Making a request to the void for someone to make a model that diagnoses a car from sound, instead of me beatboxing engines noises to a mechanic over the phone

This kind of tool (see also Quarto, Jupyter Book, and Manubot) is so cool -- and nicely solves the problem of incorrect values in a manuscript! (cc @casey.greenelab.com )

This is wonderful 👍

Yey for light and all the crazy ways it interacts with cells

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

Cilia - AI champion show🏆 Credit: GPT6-Astra Inspired by @christlet.bsky.social

Hey guys, should I buy a microscope or a computer is now just enough l?

What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules)

We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...

It was so great to spend time together again!!

Just back from the Nature Conference on next-gen fluorescence microscopy @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social. Awesomely organized! Amazing people to hang out with (we missed you @ritastrack.bsky.social )

🔬 VLab4Mic explores this in silico, connecting molecular models with super-resolution experiment design. #Microscopy #SuperResolution #VLab4Mic @aiopticalbiolab.bsky.social

Esti's first paper as a PI and last in our lab ❤️. Rock on!

Can light build centrosome-like activity? 💡🔬 Yes! We introduce LISA (Light-Induced Spindle Assembly), now in @emboreports.org. By clustering Aurora A with optogenetics, we build centrosome-like activity that nucleates microtubules and rescues spindle defects after centrosome loss. shorturl.at/9h3VQ

Excellent review of an emerging field in microscopy

Can a cell’s shape and movement reveal what it will do next? A new Henriques Lab review explores how AI uses time-lapse microscopy to predict cell fate, while asking whether models predict the future or detect changes already underway. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Ultrafast 3D imaging just got faster! Introducing: "Instant dual-view Snouty (iDV-Snouty) light-sheet microscopy" -> Double the data rate of a Snouty microscope by adding a 2nd view! Use the extra view for a variety of imaging modes! Article here: amsikking.github.io/idv-snouty_l...

🚀🔬 Can cell shape, signal and movement tell us about a cell's future? #DeepLearning studies now predict cell fate from #microscopy. Together w Rita, @mariodelr.bsky.social, @inesmcunha.bsky.social, @juliettegriffie.bsky.social + @guijacquemet.bsky.social👇 www.preprints.org/manuscript/202607.1414/v1

We're thrilled to unveil our fantastic line-up of selected speakers for SMLMS 2026 at smlms.org Huge congratulations to them! 🎉 Missed the deadline? Good news! Registration and poster abstract submission have been extended until 31st July! 🔬✨

Segmenting individual cells in microscopy is much easier these days thanks to foundation models. Can we use these models for other tasks, such as cell classification? We investigate in our latest work, finding big improvements for object and pixel classification compared to classical approaches.

New preprint! Using multiscale ExM/OPM/ASLM, we show that oncogenic drivers leave distinct 3D architectural fingerprints in intact liver tissue: NRAS primarily remodels cell shape, whereas CTNNB1 shifts mitochondrial architecture toward a pericentral-like state. tinyurl.com/kepy33m6

Come and join us at #SPAOM26!! Hands-on workshops and abstract accepted, amazing list of speakers, beautiful location and a great community!!

Our paper is now featured in focal plane! Check it out if you're looking for a platform to predict and plan imaging experiments before entering the microscope room! Very proud to be a part of this project - biggest congratulations to the team @henriqueslab.bsky.social who made this happen 🔬🛠️

Timely callout to #RxivMaker. With rxiv-maker you write in Markdown and the tool generates the LaTeX, so author comments and to-do notes never reach the source files you upload to arXiv. We built it for easy writing with amazing formatting, avoiding this leak is a welcome side effect

🔬🚀 FocalPlane's highlight on our #VLab4Mic =)

🔬🔦In our latest Imaging spotlight, Damián Martinez, Bruno Saraiva, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social @mariodelr.bsky.social & @henriqueslab.bsky.social introduce VLab4Mic, an open-source platform that allows researchers to optimise microscopy experiments before performing them.

Nuclei as constellations 🔭 #NucleiSky aligns microscopy images across modalities and scales by reading nuclei like stars to map between them. Joy to contribute, led by @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social and @guijacquemet.bsky.social's team. #RxivMaker powered preprint. Check it out!

Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...

We got a tech-bro pony for the lab

Interested in single molecule localisation microscopy? 🔬 Don't miss #SMLMS2026, hosted in by SciLifeLab, KTH and Stockholm University, with contributions from our Swedish NMI Node colleagues! 🗓️ August 26-28 in Stockholm 🇸🇪 More⤵️ smlms.org