Publications

Selected

• Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering Sun et al., Nature Methods (2026) Community benchmark of spatial clustering methods from SpaceHack; introduces SACCELERATOR.
• Identifying 3D signal overlaps in spatial transcriptomics data with ovrlpy Tiesmeyer et al., Nature Biotechnology (2026) ovrlpy shows that vertical cell overlap in imaging-based SRT is a pervasive, detectable source of error.
• SpatialLeiden: spatially aware Leiden clustering Müller-Bötticher et al., Genome Biology (2025) SpatialLeiden and multiSPAETI, spatially-aware clustering and dimensionality reduction that scale to millions of cells.
• Optimizing Xenium In Situ data utility by quality assessment and best-practice analysis workflows Marco Salas et al., Nature Methods (2025) Evaluation of the Xenium spatial transcriptomics platform against eight alternative technologies and benchmarks computational tools for data analysis.
• Memory-like HCV-specific CD8+ T cells retain a molecular scar after cure of chronic HCV infection Hensel et al., Nature Immunology (2021) HCV cure eliminates terminally exhausted T cells, leaving a persistent exhaustion scar in memory-like subsets.

All publications

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