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detecting cancer cells with odor receptors<\/h2>\n
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The sensilla on the fruit fly’s antenna contain the odor receptors (drawn by Alja L\u00fcdke).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strauch et al., Scientific Reports<\/a>, 2014
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Chemosensing with artificial devices (“electronic noses”) involves the detection and identification of chemicals, e.g. metabolic markers of disease. Whenever artificial systems reach their limits, animal chemosensing becomes an option.<\/p>\n

We used the odor receptors on the antenna of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> to tell apart cancer cells from healthy cells by their smell (summarised by iflscience!<\/a>, helmholtz.de<\/a>, Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>). This is a direct readout from biological sensors, as opposed to the common indirect readouts by observing animal behaviour.<\/p>\n

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real-time visualisation of brain activity<\/h2>\n
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Calcium imaging movie from the honeybee antennal lobe. Below: Visualisation of activity patterns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strauch et al., BioVis 2012<\/a>, Seattle<\/strong>; extended journal version: Strauch et al., BMC Bioinformatics<\/a>, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Activity patterns in the insect antennal lobe are characteristic for the odor that has been smelled. We developed an incremental signal processing algorithm (along with a fast implementation using the GPU) to extract these patterns from a stream of recorded brain activity. Real-time signal processing provides direct access to the “shape of an odour” as it is represented in spatial activity patterns in the brain.<\/p>\n

Video clips of brain activity in the honeybee antennal lobe: video_1<\/a> (before the experiment), video_2<\/a> (visualisation during the experiment).<\/p>\n

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smelling better with bigger noses<\/del> at higher odor concentrations<\/h2>\n

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Strauch et al., Front. Syst. Neurosci<\/a>., 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

When honeybees smell an odor, a characteristic, odor-specific activity pattern can be observed in the antennal lobe, a dedicated olfactory center of the honeybee brain. Thus, from the pattern we (and the bee) can derive the identity of the odor.<\/p>\n

Confusingly, different concentration levels of the same odor also lead to different activity patterns. We found that this may not be a bug, but rather a feature:\u00a0 At high odor concentrations, the distances between activity patterns better reflect the distances between the corresponding odors (chemical molecules), thus providing a more faithful picture of the odor world.<\/p>\n

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algorithms for gene expression time series data<\/h2>\n

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Supper, Strauch et al., BMC Bioinformatics<\/a>, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a first step in understanding gene regulation, clustering and biclustering approaches help to find genes with similar changes in gene expression over time. We looked at the gene expression changes in Arabidopsis thaliana <\/em>under abiotic stress conditions (such as heat or UVB), considering that genes may be correlated only in a subset of the conditions.<\/p>\n

See also my Masters thesis<\/a> (“Diplomarbeit”).<\/p>\n

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detecting cancer cells with odor receptors Strauch et al., Scientific Reports, 2014 Chemosensing with artificial devices (“electronic noses”) involves the detection and identification of chemicals, e.g. metabolic markers of disease. Whenever artificial systems reach their limits, animal chemosensing becomes an option. We used the odor receptors on the antenna of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":103,"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinstrauch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}