Dr.rer.nat.

Martin Strauch

Research Scientist

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 Martin.Strauch@lfb.rwth-aachen.de



Curriculum Vitae

Apr 2015 – Oct 2023
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jun 2007 – Dec 2014 Research Assistant (Dept. for Neurobiology) and PhD student in Computer Science, University of Konstanz, Germany
2003 Semester abroad, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Oct 2000 – May 2007 Undergraduate and graduate studies (Bioinformatics), University of Tübingen, Germany

Projekt

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

Research Fields


Publications

http://www.martinstrauch.com

Journal Publications

2022

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

2022

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

2021

Dimitrios Kapsokalyvas, Rodrigo Rosas, Rob Janssen, Jo Vanoevelen, Miranda Nabben, Martin Strauch, Dorit Merhof, Marc van Zandvoort
Multiview deconvolution approximation multiphoton microscopy of tissues and zebrafish larvae.
In: Scientific Reports 11 (10160)

2021

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

2020

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)

2019

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)

2018

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)

2017

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)

2013

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)

  • 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

2022

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)

2020

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)

2020

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)

2019

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)

2019

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)

2019

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)

2018

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)

2018

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)

2016

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)

2016

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)

  • 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