Sara Salgueiro Torres

Sara is part of the Image Analysis team in the Crick Advanced Light Microscopy (CALM) STP, where she supports researchers with their bioimage analysis needs.

She graduated from Cell Biology in UCL, where she gained hands-on experience in labs at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, followed by research in Ivana Bjedov’s lab at the UCL Cancer Institute to understand mechanisms of ageing and cancer, using models from flies and yeast to organoids. Her wet-lab background and growing fascination with the imaging world highlighted the critical need for accessible and reproducible analysis skills in biology. Driven to address this, Sara built her dry-lab skillset enrolling in Python and image analysis courses and workshops, experience she translated into teaching a year later. This led her to the Crick in October 2024. She now applies these skills to bridge the gap between bench science and data analysis, helping researchers translate their imaging data into reliable scientific insights.