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Johannes Girstmair

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsORCID 0000-0001-9029-3625Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Developmental Biology· 2 Bioinformatics· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:trajectory inference· 2 Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1

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Mette Handberg-ThorsageriD· 2 shared Alexandre BenedettoiD· 1 shared Ann F. Gilliat· 1 shared Anne Zakrzewski· 1 shared Colin T. Dolphin· 1 shared David GemsiD· 1 shared Evgeniy R. GalimoviD· 1 shared François Lapraz· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsDevelopmentPeer-reviewedOct 7, 2026

Mastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets

Johannes Girstmair, Tobias Pietzsch, Vladimír Ulman…·Pavel Tomančák

Mastodon is a software platform for analyzing large-scale lineage-tracing microscopy datasets, enabling manual and automated cell tracking and lineage analysis in complex 3D geometries.

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imagingexperimental assay

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Developmental Biologynpj Aging and Mechanisms of DiseasePeer-reviewedJun 7, 2018

Monsters in the uterus: A parthenogenetic quasi-program causes teratoma-like tumors during aging in wild-type C. elegans

Hongyuan Wang, Yuan Zhao, Marina Ezcurra…·David Gems

The paper investigates uterine tumors in C. elegans as a senescent pathology caused by quasi-programs, showing similarities to teratomas and senescence.

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C. elegans

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Developmental BiologyBMC Developmental BiologyPeer-reviewedJun 30, 2016

Light sheet microscopy for everyone? Experience of building an OpenSPIM to study flatworm development

Johannes Girstmair, Anne Zakrzewski, François Lapraz…·Maximilian J Telford

The paper describes building and using an OpenSPIM microscope to study flatworm development, highlighting its capabilities and challenges in live imaging.

DOI 10.1186/s12861-016-0122-0

non-human primateimaging

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