Jovan Tanevski
@tanevski.bsky.social
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Group leader - computational biomedical discovery. Heidelberg University & Heidelberg University Hospital. https://www.tanevskilab.org computational scientific discovery, biomedicine, spatial omics
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🧭 Colorectal cancer doesn’t follow a single path.
Using spatial proteomics on ~500 tumors, we found distinct trajectories from early to late stage, involving the whole tumor microenvironment and its metabolic state.
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05083
#SpatialBiology #CRC #ImageBasedProfiling
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Robust multicellular programs dissect the complex tumor microenvironment and track disease progression in colorectal adenocarcinomas
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is highly heterogeneous, with five-year survival rates dropping from $\sim$90% in localized disease to $\sim$15% with distant metastases. Disease progression is shaped not only...
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Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.
🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
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🎉 Such a great work by everyone involved in this major push forward in spatial multiplexing and next-generation pathology. I‘m glad to have been able to contribute to this effort and shed a light on the discovery of sub-cellular to tissue level organization patterns by xAI based on this technology.
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🚨Scaling multiplexed imaging 📈 We are excited to share Pathology-oriented multiPlexing (PathoPlex). Now out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵Walk-through thread below ⬇️
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Reposted by Jovan Tanevski
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Brilliant session focused entirely on spatial multiomics @theaacr.bsky.social #AUA25

Well said @tanevski.bsky.social "Cancer is a spatial disease-spatialomics is the future of cancer science"!

Wonderful composite spatial data from Linghua Wang @mdanderson.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This work was led by Francesco Ceccarelli in collaboration with Pietro Liò, Sean B. Holden, @saezlab.bsky.social and Tanevski Lab.
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We demonstrate TOAST on tasks of intra-, intersample, and temporal alignment in:
🧠 Human cortical layers (Visium)
🧫 Axolotl regeneration (Stereo-seq)
🐭 Locallization in mouse embryo development (seqFISH)
🎯 Various cancer types (IMC)
... with state-of-the-art efficiency and performance.
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TOAST quantifies spatial coherence using entropy in local neighborhoods—favoring alignments that keep the order of local spatial compositions. It also preserves neighborhood consistency—aligning spots with similar gene expression in the spatial neighborhood.
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Alignment is an important step for data integration and transfer of information that can help gain insights into mechanisms, progression and structural changes in disease. When the spatial context is available it *has to* complement molecular similarity to yield more biologically plausible mappings.
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🚨 New preprint: Topography Aware Optimal Transport for Alignment of Spatial Omics Data

We present our new alignment framework TOAST www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@chiaraschiller.bsky.social did an amazing job describing the landscape of methods for pairwise-association analysis in immediate spatial neighborhoods. Addressing limitations she proposes COZI and shows its ability to consistently recover directional cell-type associations and generate new insights
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Ever wondered how to best quantify cell-cell neighbor preferences in tissues?
We compared 9+ neighbor preference (NEP) methods for analysing spatial omics data and propose a novel approach that combines the most relevant analysis features which we call COZI 🔬✨

Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Schematic overview of NEP analysis steps (Neighborhood definition, Quantification and NEP score) and the systematic method performance comparison using simulated data for cohort distinction.