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Fernanda Ramos-Gomes, PhD is a senior research scientist in the group of Prof. Frauke Alves at the Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. She received her degree in Biology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a degree in Nursing, from the Fluminense Federal University, both in Brazil. Following her Master in 2006 at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, she moved to Germany, where she received her PhD in 2010 at the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB). In 2011 she joined Frauke Alves’ group of Translational Molecular Imaging. With an excellent background in the handling of biological samples and microscopy techniques, her expertise helps to fill the gap between the preparation of complex tissues and the microscopy imaging scenario. Using different microscopy techniques - high-resolution, multiphoton and light-sheet microscopy - her domain includes deep intra-tumour and intravital imaging, as well as imaging of nonlinear signals produced by tumor structures, drug release in the tumour microenvironment and tracking of nanoparticle-labeled cells. With her expertise she has contributed to several third-party funded applications and has supervised a number of PhD Students. She has a great interest in the oncology field, especially in the processes of how tumor cells interact with components of the extracellular matrix and migrate to form distant metastases.