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Sofia Maccuro

KU LeuvenORCID 0000-0002-5232-2998Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Developmental Biology· 1 Zoology· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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Eve SeuntjensiD· 3 shared Ali M. ElagoziD· 1 shared B.C. Felipe· 1 shared Eduardo AlmansaiD· 1 shared Elke van RooijiD· 1 shared Ellen A. LumpkiniD· 1 shared Francisco Acosta-CifuentesiD· 1 shared Horst Andreas ObenhausiD· 1 shared

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OCTRON - a general purpose segmentation and tracking pipeline for behavioral experiments

R. Irene Jacobsen, Nadia van Eekelen, Mikkel Roald-Arbøl, Sofía Miñano, Laurel Humphrey, John P. Renton, Takato Honda, Elke van Rooij, Jason Rivera, Oscar M. Arenas, Ellen A. Lumpkin, Sofia Maccuro, Kendra C. Buresch, Eve Seuntjens, Horst Andreas Obenhaus

OCTRON provides a segmentation and tracking pipeline for behavioral experiments, validated across species and setups.

bioRxiv · Oct 23, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Ultrasound-based prediction of spawning time in females of Octopus vulgaris

Lorenzo Márquez, Pauline Weterings, Sámar Saber, B.C. Felipe, Sofia Maccuro, M. Serrano, Eve Seuntjens, Francisco Acosta-Cifuentes, María González, Eduardo Almansa

This study uses ultrasound to predict spawning time in cultured and wild Octopus vulgaris by analyzing ovary volume and gonadosomatic index.

bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2025 · PreprintZoology

Optimization of Whole Mount RNA multiplexed in situ Hybridization Chain Reaction with Immunohistochemistry, Clearing and Imaging to visualize octopus neurogenesis

Ali M. Elagoz, Ruth Styfhals, Sofia Maccuro, Luca Masin, Lieve Moons, Eve Seuntjens

The paper optimizes a whole-mount multiplexed RNA in situ hybridization chain reaction (HCR v3.0) protocol combined with immunohistochemistry and imaging to visualize neurogenesis in octopus embryos.

bioRxiv · Feb 24, 2022 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology