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Lukas Hatscher

@loggas.bsky.social
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MD, PhD candidate in Institute of Computational Biomedicine - AG Schapiro, Interested in quantitative tissue analysis 💻 www.github.com/LukasHats

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Schapiro Lab @schapirolab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Happy (belated) Valentine's Day from our lab to yours 💕 Image credit: @loggas.bsky.social and Lisa Künstler
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Wissenschaft.Kunst.BW @mwk-bw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔬🏥 Gesundheitsforschung für die Menschen im InnoLÄND! In der Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim wird zu zentralen Gesundheitsfragen geforscht. Mit der Innovationscampus-Förderung ermöglichen wir Grundlagenforschung mit Potenzial für biomedizinische Durchbrüche. 🔗 youtu.be/LZN-Sx9wfVQ
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THE InnoLÄND: Innovationscampus Health & Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim
YouTube video by Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
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The giant wakes up: Illumina goes spatial
Predictions on the upcoming Illumina spatial transcriptomics technology
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Sabrina Lewis @sabrinalewis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Introducing Count COMET 🧛🧛‍♀️ Happy Halloween! 🎃
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Yes that’s exactly what I meant, I think it’s unique ;)
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Entrance of this helix? Or should we meet at your poster?
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Sounds good, how about tomorrows coffee break at 10:00?
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Would love to hear and talk about muspan and its integration into existing single cell data formats. When are you presenting your poster?
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Gregor Sturm @grst.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our benchmark + guidelines for atlas-level differential gene expression of single cells is online: academic.oup.com/bib/article/... Bottom line: Use pseudobulk + DESeq2 in simple and pseudobulk + DREAM in more complex settings. Collab w/ @leonhafner.bsky.social @itisalist.bsky.social
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Well this also depends on how we define the term hallucinations and the output an LLM is generating. I think it’s more terminology problem here. Which does not change the fact that a lot of people do not understand what an LLM is doing and how to proper interpret the outputs.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
2 decades of self-injecting venom and hundreds of snake bites
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This guy really dedicated his life to science: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies
Snake envenomation is a neglected tropical disease, with 600 species causing over 100,000 deaths and 300,000 permanent disabilities in humans annually…
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Thanks Jim!
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And last but not least thanks a lot to @denisschapiro.bsky.social who established the collaboration and mentored me.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I am happy to have worked with my collaborators from NTNU (Ingrid and Therese) on this amazing project, as well as @chiaraschiller.bsky.social who developed COZi (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). shout out to CellCharter developer @marcovarrone.bsky.social for his amazing method(and collaboration)
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The spatial analysis highlight is that we uncover this signal using 2 different spatial resolutions (cell and neighborhood level) and 2 independent methods (COZI and CellCharter). We hope that this will open up new research paths in Myeloma focusing on these cell interactions.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
To our very surprise we find that increased “interaction” of PCs and a variety of immune cells, especially CD4+Tcells, is associated to increased risk of progression, which is contrary to many findings in other tumors where tumor immune interaction seem to generally be beneficial for patients.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Lastly we apply cell neighbor preference analysis with COZI (developed by @chiaraschiller.bsky.social ) and CellCharter’s neighborhood enrichment method and connect these findings to associated clinical metadata:
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This questions the common belief that malignant PCs solely rely on glycolytic metabolism for cancer progression and niche establishment. We further show that the aggregate size of the PC_OXPHOS neighborhood negatively correlates with immune infiltration
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This led to the finding of 2 different malignant PC neighborhoods: 1) PC_OXPHOS characterized by huge vascularized aggregates of PCs with increased oxidative phosphorylation and 2)PC_MYELOID, where PCs show glycolytic metabolism and are loosely scattered around including myeloid cells.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
As our antibody panel focused on functional markers, we used a novel neighborhood algorithm CellCharter ( @marcovarrone.bsky.social ) to structure the tissue into neighborhoods driven by not only cell types but also functional state.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We show that: MM patients with bone disease (a frequent comorbidity) show an increased abundance of malignant Plasma Cells (PCs) in the vicinity of Osteoclasts and that PCs display a bone distance dependent expression of factors involved in bone degradation (IL32, HIF1A)
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We apply IMC to biopsies from 65 MM patients, 6 SMM and 5 MGUS patients with an antibody panel focusing on immune, bone cells and metabolism. The dataset consists of roughly 1 million labeled cells including distance to the next bone surface for every image (soon on zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.17093203)
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I am excited to share my first work in @schapirolab.bsky.social on Multiple Myeloma (MM) in collaboration with the Standal Lab from NTNU Norway. We use Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) on bone marrow biopsies from MM and precursor patients (details below): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Highly multiplexed imaging recovers immune and metabolic niches in multiple myeloma associated with disease progression and bone involvement
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer arising from genetically aberrant plasma cells (PCs) that remain dependent on the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment for disease establishment and progression. Here, w...
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Nature Method: Temporal and spatial omics technologies for 4D profiling www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Temporal and spatial omics technologies for 4D profiling
Nature Methods - This Perspective explores advances and future directions in spatiotemporal omics methods for four-dimensional profiling.
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thanks @marcovarrone.bsky.social it was a pleasure, learnt a lot from the way you built your codebase. We have a paper coming up with a lot of cellcharter in there! Amazing method :)
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
And for anyone who has considered contributing to an open source package: don't be scared to propose changes. Even if it's not a complete and perfect solution, whoever is maintaining the package will help you in get to the right solution and they will be incredibly grateful.
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For people like me who don't have a team behind a package like CellCharter, contributions like these mean a lot. So thank you Lukas :) And congratulations, it's not always easy to jump into an existing codebase and propose changes.
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
RCS measures how large a cell niche (aka spatial domain aka spatial cluster) is compared to what would be normally expected. This pushed me to completely rewrite the system for generating and plotting boundaries for cell niches. The new system is now more efficient, consistent, and visually clear.
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A few weeks ago, we released CellCharter v0.3.5. Among some bug fixes, we received our first contribution from an external contributor: @loggas.bsky.social ! He designed a new metric called Relative Component Size (RCS).
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GitHub - CSOgroup/cellcharter: A Python package for the identification, characterization and comparison of spatial clusters from spatial -omics data.
A Python package for the identification, characterization and comparison of spatial clusters from spatial -omics data. - CSOgroup/cellcharter
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Schapiro Lab @schapirolab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Spotted: @loggas.bsky.social and @arojhada.bsky.social teaching phenotyping to our Advanced Systems Biology students
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🖥️🧬 I used to have to tell my students not to bother with differential expression analysis in a language outside of R. Recently, with pydeseq2 and now InMoose, this is changing! bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Differential expression analysis with inmoose, the integrated multi-omic open-source environment in Python - BMC Bioinformatics
Background Differential gene expression analysis is a prominent technique for the analysis of biomolecular data to identify genetic features associated with phenotypes. Limma—for microarray data –, an...
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Erik van Nimwegen @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Here it is! Bonsai. Now there is really no more excuse for using t-SNE/UMAP. Bonsai not only makes cool pictures of your data. It actually rigorously preserves its structure. No tunable parameters. Incredible work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social. I'm so excited about this! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Bonsai: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data
Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...
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Slavov Laboratory @slavovlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
An alternative to tSNE & UMAP for more accurate data visualization: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data. The trees are constructed to accurately represent true distances between the objects in the high-dimensional space.
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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In addition to the two #SpatialBiology posts in the thread below, we're now also advertising for a Research Software Engineer #RSE to help us take #MuSpAn to the next level - come and join us! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #academic #jobs #softwaredeveloper #compsci
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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025
And it's finally here! napari 0.6.0 is out on PyPI and conda-forge! 🥳 We've had a few threads about this release already but let's recap with some highlights: 🧵
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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 17/04/2025
Big updates for the Nextflow @vscode.dev extension! 🚀 🔍 Workflow view – Visualize logical structure of pipelines ⚙️ Process view – See all processes in one place 🌐 Seqera view – Manage connected CEs directly in the IDE 📚 Resources view – Quickly access Copilot, AI tools & training
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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Miso made in space tastes nuttier! Researchers successfully make miso at the #InternationalSpaceStation, confirming that making fermented foods in space is possible. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @medialab.bsky.social Maggie Coblentz @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Joshua D. Evans @cp-cell.bsky.social
Sampling the space miso CREDIT Maggie CoblentzSampling three misos after fermentation CREDIT Maggie Coblentz
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Leeat Keren @leeat-keren.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Super excited to finally see this published! Our new method to use combinatorial staining and deep learning to push the multiplexing boundaries of spatial proteomics!
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Nice, I did not know that it’s for the general public, I think that’s really cool, thanks for sharing!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Science is an investment that pays enormous dividends. So if you’re business-minded, it’s an offer you can’t refuse! Here's my full speech from the Stand Up For Science rally in DC today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...
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Schapiro Lab @schapirolab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🧵 We are excited to share our new paper, showcasing micronuclAI, which leverages #AI and #ComputerVision to detect #chromosomal_instability #CIN #micronuclei Congratulations to @miguelib.bsky.social and Lindsay Caprio for leading this project.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The March issue is out! This week: TOX-inducible-KO 🐁show how #TOX maintains #exhausted CD8 #Tcell epigenetic fate; visualizing temporal & spatial #STING expression; & UVB-driven #mitochondrial Z-🧬complexed w ZBP1 fuels #autoimmune #photosensitivity via cGAS-STING! science.org/toc/sciimmunol/10/105
This month’s cover features a keratinocyte mitochondrion damaged by UVB radiation, which then releases reactive oxygen species (red spheres) and Z-DNA complexed with ZBP1 into the cytoplasm. (Credit: A. Fisher/Science Immunology)
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Nature @nature.com · 06/03/2025
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4bpG2It
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Sabrina Lewis @sabrinalewis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
One week to go!
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Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Does anyone have a good universal membrane marker besides NaKATPase and CD98, that ideally stains epithelium/cancer similarly strong as stroma/immune cells? Antibody will be used for spatial proteomics (cyclic IF), goal is a good whole cell segmentation downstream
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 27/02/2025
Gemini Code Assist now free: blog.google/technology/d... VSCode: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... Positron: open-vsx.org/extension/Go... #Rstats
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 19/02/2025
Society, patients and clinicians welcome a much-needed non-opioid pain medication. Vertex’s first-in-class analgesic Journavx could soon be followed by a new generation of addiction-free pain drugs acting at NaV1.8 sodium channels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vertex’s opioid-free drug for acute pain wins FDA approval - Nature Biotechnology
Society, patients and clinicians welcome a much-needed non-opioid pain medication. Vertex’s first-in-class analgesic Journavx could soon be followed by a new generation of addiction-free pain drugs ac...
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Julio Saez-Rodriguez @juliosaezrod.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Post-doc opening to join our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics and #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data - please share 🙏 : embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Postdoctoral fellow - Saez-Rodriguez Group
Your group Saez-Rodriguez Research Group Your supervisor Julio Saez-Rodriguez Your role As a postdoctoral fellow in the Saez Rodriguez group, you will develop and apply computational methods and tools...
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Heidelberg University Postdoc Network @heidelbergpostdoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Are you a postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social? Don't forget to sign up!
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Kick off networking event (free)
Mar 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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