Lukas Hatscher
loggas.bsky.social
Lukas Hatscher
@loggas.bsky.social
MD, PhD candidate in Institute of Computational Biomedicine - AG Schapiro, Interested in quantitative tissue analysis 💻
www.github.com/LukasHats
Yes that’s exactly what I meant, I think it’s unique ;)
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Entrance of this helix? Or should we meet at your poster?
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sounds good, how about tomorrows coffee break at 10:00?
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Would love to hear and talk about muspan and its integration into existing single cell data formats. When are you presenting your poster?
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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.
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
2 decades of self-injecting venom and hundreds of snake bites
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Thanks Jim!
September 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And last but not least thanks a lot to @denisschapiro.bsky.social who established the collaboration and mentored me.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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)
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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:
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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)
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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)
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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 :)
July 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Lukas Hatscher
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.
July 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Lukas Hatscher
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.
July 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM