Martin Strauch

Curriculum Vitae

Apr 2015 – Okt 2023	Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Imaging and Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University
Jun 2007 – Dez 2014	Research associate (Department of Neurobiology) and doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz
2003	Auslandssemester, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Okt 2000 – Mai 2007	B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Bioinformatics), University of Tübingen

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Projekt

ACTIVE : Aachen Center for Biomedical Image Analysis, Visualization and Exploration

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Research Fields

• Neuroanatomy of the Drosophila Larva
• Neuroinformatics

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Publications

http://www.martinstrauch.com

Journal publications

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  2022article

  Zhilei Zhao, Jessica L. Zung, Annika Hinze, Alexis L. Kriete, Azwad Iqbal, Meg A. Younger, Benjamin J. Matthews, Dorit Merhof, Stephan Thiberge, Rickard Ignell, Martin Strauch and Carolyn S. McBride

  Mosquito brains encode unique features of human odour to drive host seeking

  In: Nature, S. 706-712

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  2022article

  Long Chen, Matthias Daub, Hans-Georg Luigs, Marcus Jansen, Martin Strauch and Dorit Merhof

  High-throughput Phenotyping of Nematode Cysts

  In: Frontiers in Plant Science

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  2021article

  Dimitrios Kapsokalyvas, Rodrigo Rosas, Rob Janssen, Jo Vanoevelen, Miranda Nabben, Martin Strauch, Dorit Merhof and Marc van Zandvoort

  Multiview deconvolution approximation multiphoton microscopy of tissues and zebrafish larvae.

  In: Scientific Reports 11 (10160)

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  2021article

  David Fleck, Lina Kenzler, Nadine Mundt, Martin Strauch, Naofumi Uesaka, Robert Moosmann, Felicitas Bruentgens, Annika Missel, Artur Mayerhofer, Dorit Merhof, Jennifer Spehr and Marc Spehr

  ATP activation of peritubular cells drives testicular sperm transport

  In: eLife 10:e62885

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  2020article

  Michael Schleyer, Alice Weiglein, Juliane Thoener, Martin Strauch, Volker Hartenstein, Melisa Kantar Weigelt, Sarah Schuller, Timo Saumweber, Katharina Eichler, Astrid Rohwedder, Dorit Merhof, Marta Zlatic, Andreas Stefan Thum and Bertram Gerber

  Identification of dopaminergic neurons that can both establish associative memory and acutely terminate its behavioral expression

  In: Journal of Neuroscience 40 (31), S. 5990--6006, Soc Neuroscience

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  2019article

  Laura Hoppe Alvarez, Sabine Eisold, Rustam A. Gumerov, Martin Strauch, Andrey A. Rudov, Pia Lenssen, Dorit Merhof, Igor I. Potemkin, Ulrich Simon and Dominik Wöll

  Deformation of Microgels at Solid-Liquid Interfaces Visualized in Three-Dimension

  In: Nano Letters 19 (12), S. 8862-8867

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  2018article

  Sascha E.A. Muenzing, Martin Strauch, James W. Truman, Katja Bühler, Andreas Thum and Dorit Merhof

  larvalign: Aligning gene expression patterns from the larval brain of Drosophila melanogaster

  In: Neuroinformatics 16 (1)

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  2017article

  Eugenio Martinelli, Alja Lüdke, Piergiorgio Adamo, Martin Strauch, Corrado Di Natale and C. Giovanni Galizia

  Normalizing brain activity across individuals using functional reference mapping

  In: Scientific Reports 7 (17128)

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  2013article

  Martin Strauch, Clemens Müthing, Marc P. Brög, Paul Szyska, Daniel Münch, Thomas Laudes, Oliver Deussen, C. Giovanni Galizia and Dorit Merhof

  The Looks of an Odor - Visualising Neural Odor Response Patterns in Real Time

  In: BMC Bioinformatics 14 (Suppl 19)

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• Eduardo Hatano, Ahmed M. Saveer, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Martin Strauch, Ali Zakir, Marie Bengtsson, Bill Hansson, Rickard Ignell, Peter Anderson, Paul G. Becher, Peter Witzgall, Teun Dekker: “A herbivore-induced plant volatile interferes with host plant and mate location in moths through suppression of olfactory signalling pathways.”, BMC Biology, 13:75, 2015
• Jan Beran, Arno Weiershäuser, C. Giovanni Galizia, Julia Rein, Brian H. Smith, Martin Strauch: „On piecewise polynomial regression under general dependence conditions with an application to calcium-imaging data.“, Sankhya Series B, Springer, Volume 76, Issue 1, pp 49-81, 2014
• Martin Strauch, Alja Lüdke, Daniel Münch, Thomas Laudes, C. Giovanni Galizia, Eugenio Martinelli, Luca Lavra, Roberto Paolesse, Alessandra Ulivieri, Alexandro Catini, Rosamaria Capuano, Corrado Di Natale: „More than apples and oranges – Detecting cancer with a fruit fly’s antenna.“, Scientific Reports, 4:3576, 2014 (cancer-sniffing fruit flies in the media)
• Martin Strauch, Clemens Müthing, Marc P. Broeg, Paul Szyszka, Daniel Münch, Thomas Laudes, Oliver Deussen, C. Giovanni Galizia, Dorit Merhof: „The looks of an odor – Visualising neural odor response patterns in real time.“, BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Suppl 19):S6, 2013 (media report: BioPro)
• Julia Rein, Julie A. Mustard, Martin Strauch, Brian H. Smith, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Octopamine modulates activity of neural networks in the honey bee antennal lobe“, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Vol 199:11, pp. 947-962, 2013
• Martin Strauch, Julia Rein, Christian Lutz, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Signal extraction from movies of honeybee brain activity by convex analysis: The ImageBee plugin for KNIME.“, BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Suppl 18):S4, 2013
• Martin Strauch, Mathias Ditzen, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Keeping their distance? Odor response patterns along the concentration range.“, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 6:71, 2012
• C. Giovanni Galizia, Daniel Münch, Martin Strauch, Anja Nissler, Shouwen Ma: „Integrating heterogeneous odor response data into a common response model: A DoOR to the complete olfactome.“, Chemical Senses, volume 35, pp. 551-563, 2010 (cover of the september 2010 issue; commentary by Hansson and Stensmyr)
• Jochen Supper, Martin Strauch, Dierk Wanke, Klaus Harter, Andreas Zell: „EDISA: Extracting biclusters from multiple time-series of gene-expression profiles.“, BMC Bioinformatics, 8:334, 2007
• Martin Strauch, Jochen Supper, Christian Spieth, Dierk Wanke, Joachim Kilian, Klaus Harter and Andreas Zell: „A Two-Step Clustering for 3-D Gene Expression Data Reveals the Main Features of the Arabidopsis Stress Response.“, Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 4(1):54, 2007

 

Conference publications

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  2022inproceedings

  Long Chen, Martin Strauch, Matthias Daub, Hans-Georg Luigs, Marcus Jansen and Dorit Merhof$

  Learning to Segment Fine Structures Under Image-Level Supervision With an Application to Nematode Segmentation

  In: International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC)

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  2020inproceedings

  Long Chen, Weiwen Zhang, Yuli Wu, Martin Strauch and Dorit Merhof

  Semi-supervised Instance Segmentation with a Learned Shape Prior

  In: MICCAI Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Less Labels and Imperfect Data (MIL3ID)

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  2020inproceedings

  Long Chen, Martin Strauch, Matthias Daub, Xiaochen Jiang, Marcus Jansen, Hans-Georg Luigs, Susanne Schultz-Kuhlmann, Stefan Kruessel and Dorit Merhof

  A CNN Framework Based on Line Annotations for Detecting Nematodes in Microscopic Images

  In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

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  2019inproceedings

  Martin Strauch, Karl Krüger, Latha Mukunda, Alja Lüdke, C. Giovanni Galizia and Dorit Merhof

  Interpolating maps between neural response spaces for chemosensing with fruit fly antenna sensors.

  In: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)

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  2019inproceedings

  Long Chen, Martin Strauch and Dorit Merhof

  Instance Segmentation of Biomedical Images with an Object-aware Embedding Learned with Local Constraints

  In: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

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  2019inproceedings

  Long Chen, Martin Strauch, Matthias Daub, Marcus Jansen, Hans-Georg Luigs and Dorit Merhof

  Instance Segmentation of Nematode Cysts in Microscopic Images of Soil Samples

  In: International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC)

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  2018inproceedings

  Martin Strauch, Latha Mukunda, Alja Lüdke, C. Giovanni Galizia and Dorit Merhof

  Recovering a chemotopic feature space from a group of fruit fly antenna chemosensors.

  In: 18th IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), S. 163-169

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  2018inproceedings

  Martin Strauch, Volker Hartenstein, Ingrid V. Andrade, Albert Cardona and Dorit Merhof

  Annotated dendrograms for neurons from the larval fruit fly brain.

  In: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM), S. 57-66, Eurographics Association

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  2016inproceedings

  Martin Strauch, Markus Rothermel, Matt Wachowiak and Dorit Merhof

  Smoothness-constrained convex cone analysis for signal extraction from calcium imaging movies

  In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), S. 612-616, IEEE

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  2016inproceedings

  Michael Gadermayr, Martin Strauch, Barbara Mara Klinkhammer, Sonja Djudjaj, Peter Boor and Dorit Merhof

  Domain Adaptive Classification for Compensating Variability in Histopathological Whole Slide Images

  In: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), S. 616-622, Springer

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• Martin Strauch, Marc P. Broeg, Clemens Müthing, Paul Szyszka, Oliver Deussen, C. Giovanni Galizia, Dorit Merhof: „INCIDE the Brain of a Bee – Visualising Honeybee Brain Activity in Real Time by Semantic Segmentation.“, pp. 17-24, Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), Oct 14-15 2012, Seattle, USA, IEEE, 2012 („honorable mention“ award)
• Martin Strauch, Julia Rein, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Signal extraction from movies of honeybee brain activity by convex analysis.“, pp. 1-6, Int. Conf. on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), Feb 23-25 2012, Las Vegas, USA, IEEE, 2012
• Martin Strauch, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Fast PCA for processing calcium-imaging data from the brain of Drosophila melanogaster.“}, pp. 3-10, CIKM Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO), Oct 24th 2011, Glasgow, Scotland, ACM, 2011
• Martin Strauch, C. Giovanni Galizia: „Registration to a neuroanatomical reference atlas – identifying glomeruli in optical recordings of the honeybee brain.“, P-136, pp. 85-95, German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB), Sep 9-12 2008, Dresden, Germany, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 2008