Tania Mendonca

Contact

• workRoom B10 LifeSciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work011595113244
• Tania.Mendonca@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Tania was awarded a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2018 under it's Imagine: Imaging Life studentship for developing a novel application of light sheet microscopy to study sperm-female interactions in the reproductive tracts of birds using the songbird zebra finch as a model. In 2018, she joined the Optics and Photonics Research Group at the University of Nottingham as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Dr Amanda Wright's group. In her current role, she is developing a combined light sheet and optical trapping system that will later include a multiplane imaging system, currently being developed by collaborators at Heriot-Watt University. This instrument will enable us to make micro-mechnical measurements while simultaneously imaging the cell in 4D (x,y,z,time (t)) - allowing us to understand how cells sense the extracellular matrix local to them as they migrate through it.

Recent Publications

• MENDONCA, TANIA, LIS-SLIMAK, KATARZYNA, MATHESON, ANDREW B., SMITH, MATTHEW G., ANANE-ADJEI, AKOSUA B., CAVANAGH, ROBERT, PATERSON, LYNN, DALGARNO, PAUL A., ALEXANDER, CAMERON, TASSIERI, MANLIO, MERRY, CATHERINE L. R. and WRIGHT, AMANDA J., 2022. OptoRheo: Simultaneous in situ micro-mechanical sensing and 3D imaging of live cell cultures
• GUADAYOL, OSCAR, MENDONCA, TANIA, SEGURA-NOGUERA, MARIONA, WRIGHT, AMANDA J., TASSIERI, MANLIO and HUMPHRIES, STUART, 2021. Microrheology reveals microscale viscosity gradients in planktonic systems PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 118(1),
• MATHESON, ANDREW B., PATERSON, LYNN, WRIGHT, AMANDA J., MENDONCA, TANIA, TASSIERI, MANLIO and DALGARNO, PAUL A., 2021. Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM): a new tool for 3D microrheology SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 11(1),
• MENDONCA, TANIA, JONES, ANA A., POZO, JOSE M., BAXENDALE, SARAH, WHITFIELD, TANYA T. and FRANGI, ALEJANDRO F., 2021. Origami: Single-cell 3D shape dynamics oriented along the apico-basal axis of folding epithelia from fluorescence microscopy data PLOS Computational Biology. 17(11), e1009063

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• MENDONCA, TANIA, LIS-SLIMAK, KATARZYNA, MATHESON, ANDREW B., SMITH, MATTHEW G., ANANE-ADJEI, AKOSUA B., CAVANAGH, ROBERT, PATERSON, LYNN, DALGARNO, PAUL A., ALEXANDER, CAMERON, TASSIERI, MANLIO, MERRY, CATHERINE L. R. and WRIGHT, AMANDA J., 2022. OptoRheo: Simultaneous in situ micro-mechanical sensing and 3D imaging of live cell cultures
• GUADAYOL, OSCAR, MENDONCA, TANIA, SEGURA-NOGUERA, MARIONA, WRIGHT, AMANDA J., TASSIERI, MANLIO and HUMPHRIES, STUART, 2021. Microrheology reveals microscale viscosity gradients in planktonic systems PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 118(1),
• MATHESON, ANDREW B., PATERSON, LYNN, WRIGHT, AMANDA J., MENDONCA, TANIA, TASSIERI, MANLIO and DALGARNO, PAUL A., 2021. Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM): a new tool for 3D microrheology SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 11(1),
• MENDONCA, TANIA, JONES, ANA A., POZO, JOSE M., BAXENDALE, SARAH, WHITFIELD, TANYA T. and FRANGI, ALEJANDRO F., 2021. Origami: Single-cell 3D shape dynamics oriented along the apico-basal axis of folding epithelia from fluorescence microscopy data PLOS Computational Biology. 17(11), e1009063
• MATHESON, ANDREW B, MENDONCA, TANIA, GIBSON, GRAHAM M, DALGARNO, PAUL A, WRIGHT, AMANDA J, PATERSON, LYNN and TASSIERI, MANLIO, 2021. Microrheology With an Anisotropic Optical Trap Front. Phys. 9, 621512
• MENDONCA T, CADBY AJ and HEMMINGS N, 2019. Sperm Gatekeeping: 3D Imaging Reveals a Constricted Entrance to Zebra Finch Sperm Storage Tubules. Biophysical journal. (In Press.)
• MENDONCA T, BIRKHEAD TR, CADBY AJ, FORSTMEIER W and HEMMINGS N, 2018. A trade-off between thickness and length in the zebra finch sperm mid-piece. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 285(1883),