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Mariana Pinho

@pinholab.bsky.social
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Full Professor at ITQB NOVA. Microbiologist. Microscopist. Bacterial Cell Biologist. Mother of 3.

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Mariana Pinho @pinholab.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Check out this tour de force by Nils Meiresonne and colleagues, establishing FLIM-FRET as a reliable way to study protein interactions in live bacteria with spatiotemporal resolution! We open the door to exploring divisome protein interactions during cell division. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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FtsW protein-protein interactions visualized in live Staphylococcus aureus cells by FLIM-FRET
The bacterial cell cycle relies on the coordinated and dynamic interactions between division proteins and those involved in peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis. However, visualizing these interactions in viv...
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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Why do lower-resolution images sometimes yield better results in deep learning for bioimaging analyses? 🤔📉 Mariana Ferreira's new preprint on #ReScale4DL explores this paradox and introduces optimal resolution design! @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social brainchild🧑‍🔬✨ Check: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mariana Pinho @pinholab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have 3 positions for students who want to start a PhD in the next 12 months. If you like advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques and S. aureus cell biology, check links and apply(April 4) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325394 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325395 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325396
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Mariana Pinho @pinholab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
All you wanted to know about chromosome segregation in Staphylococcus aureus and were afraid to ask - check our new preprint! A great collaboration with Xindan Wang´s lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Chromosome segregation dynamics during the cell cycle of Staphylococcus aureus
Research on chromosome organization and cell cycle progression in spherical bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus, remains limited and fragmented. In this study, we established a working model ...
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davidroper2.bsky.social @davidroper2.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Please repost!!!!! Abstraction submission for the next Great Wall Symposium is now open! Come to Sicily in September and learn the latest on bacterial cell wall biology. thegreatwall-symposium.org/abstract-sub...
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Pre-registration and Abstract Submission - The Greatwall-symposium
Registration and abstract submission open on January 15th, 2025.The organizers will select the final list of participants based on abstract submission, particularly for young scientist, and the applic...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Can't wait for this new meeting on drug resistance and tolerance across species and diseases. A principle revealed in one system – maybe using different terminology – could be the big new idea when imported to another! Abstract deadline in January! s.embl.org/ees25-01 @EMBO/@embl.org
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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · 21/11/2024
Great review by @pinholab.bsky.social and Simon Foster on the current knowledge regarding growth, elongation and division of Staphylococcus aureus www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Mariana Pinho @pinholab.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Super nice work from Simon Schäper showing that septal peptidoglycan synthases in S. aureus are not driven by FtsZ treadmilling. Instead they follow a one track model and their processive movement is dependent on peptidoglycan synthesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cell constriction requires processive septal peptidoglycan synthase movement independent of FtsZ treadmilling in Staphylococcus aureus - Nature Microbiology
Single-molecule imaging reveals that peptidoglycan synthesis and synthase activity, rather than FtsZ treadmilling, are rate limiting and drive septum constriction in Staphylococcus aureus.
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
cell divisionist take note 👇 meetings.embo.org/event/24-z-r...
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Archaeal and bacterial cell division: Beyond the Z-ring
The objective of this EMBO Workshop is to discuss advances in prokaryotic cell division. Most archaea and bacteria divide using a ring-structure formed by the tubulin homologue FtsZ, the Z-ring. Rese�...
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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Registration and abstract submission is open for Single Molecule Bacteriology III, 30 September - 3 October 2024, De Vere Cotswold Water Park, UK Outstanding speakers and delightful location eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f... #microsky #microscopy 🔬🦠🧫
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