Publications

This list contains some of our scientific publications over the past few years. For a more complete list, see the Google Scholar profiles of Johannes Textor and Inge Wortel

• Judith N. Mandl, Heather J. Melichar, Byron B. Au-Yeung, Johannes Textor, Ludger Klein:
  Calibrating T cell responsiveness through interactions with self.
  Nature Reviews Immunology , 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41577-026-01305-2
• Jérémy Postat, Mauricio Merino, Angela R. Mingarelli, Aysha Cerf, Aanya Bhagrath, Dhanesh Patel, Connie Shen, Johanna Brodbeck, Pouria Tirgar, Dakota Rogers, Jules Blanc, Thiviya Jeyakumar, Caitlin Schneider, Shana Coley, Nadia Giannetti, Taylor A. DePauw, Johannes Textor, Allen Ehrlicher, Stephen C. Jameson, Reza Sharif-Naeini, Abhinav Sharma, Judith N. Mandl:
  Mechanosensing by T cells promotes a tissue-resident memory transcriptional program.
  Nature Immunology 27: 1708-1721, 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41590-026-02581-9
• Franka Buytenhuijs, Gijs Schröder, Johannes Textor:
  What Does the Shape Space of T Cell Epitopes Look Like?
  Immunological Reviews 341(1): e70152, 2026. doi: 10.1111/imr.70152
• Mihaela Mihaylova, Jelle Piepenbrock, Johannes Textor:
  Globally Optimal Multi-Object Tracking with Splitting and Merging.
  Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 337: 4514-4527, 2026. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v337/mihaylova26a.html
• Lucas E. Wiebke, Joaquín R. Colonnello, Jérémy Postat, Luciana Bruno, Johannes Textor, Daniel R. Parisi:
  A minimal stochastic model captures collective T cell behavior in one-dimensional microchannels.
  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 692: 131523, 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2026.131523
• Gijs Schröder, Johannes Textor:
  Classifier Systems as Linear Probability Models.
  Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2025, NH Malaga Hotel, Malaga, Spain, July 14-18, 2025 : 167-175, 2025. doi: 10.1145/3712256.3726453
• Ankur Ankan, Johannes Textor:
  Expert-In-The-Loop Causal Discovery: Iterative Model Refinement Using Expert Knowledge.
  Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Rio Othon Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21-25 July 2025 286: 172-183, 2025. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v286/ankan25a.html
• Ankur Ankan, Johannes Textor:
  pgmpy: A Python Toolkit for Bayesian Networks.
  Journal of Machine Learning Research 25(265): 1-8, 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08639
• Evgenia Martynova, Johannes Textor:
  A Uniformly Bounded Correlation Function for Spatial Point Patterns.
  Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2024, Barcelona, Spain, August 25-29, 2024 : 2177-2188, 2024. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671891
• Jeroen H. A. Creemers, Ankur Ankan, Kit C. B. Roes, Gijs Schröder, Niven Mehra, Carl G. Figdor, I. Jolanda M. Vries, Johannes Textor:
  In silico cancer immunotherapy trials uncover the consequences of therapy-specific response patterns for clinical trial design and outcome.
  Nature Communications 14(1), 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37933-8
• Inge M. N. Wortel, Johannes Textor:
  Interpreting T-cell search “strategies” in the light of evolution under constraints.
  PLOS Computational Biology 19(2): e1010918, 2023. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010918
• Inge M. N. Wortel, Seonyoung Kim, Annie Y Liu, Enid C Ibarra, Mark J Miller:
  Listeria motility increases the efficiency of epithelial invasion during intestinal infection.
  PLOS Pathogens 18(12): e1011028, 2022. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011028
• Jeroen H A Creemers, W Joost Lesterhuis, Niven Mehra, Winald R Gerritsen, Carl G Figdor, I Jolanda M Vries, Johannes Textor:
  A tipping point in cancer-immune dynamics leads to divergent immunotherapy responses and hampers biomarker discovery.
  Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 9(5): e002032, 2021. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2020-002032
• Jeroen H. A. Creemers, Maarten J. Doelen, Sandra Wilpe, Rick Hermsen, Tjitske Duiveman-Boer, Diederik M. Somford, Marcel J. R. Janssen, J. P. Michiel Sedelaar, Niven Mehra, Johannes Textor, Harm Westdorp:
  Immunophenotyping Reveals Longitudinal Changes in Circulating Immune Cells During Radium-223 Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.
  Frontiers in Oncology 11, 2021. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.667658
• Inge M N Wortel, Johannes Textor:
  Artistoo, a library to build, share, and explore simulations of cells and tissues in the web browser.
  eLife 10, 2021. doi: 10.7554/elife.61288
• Ankur Ankan, Inge M. N. Wortel, Johannes Textor:
  Testing Graphical Causal Models Using the R Package “dagitty”.
  Current Protocols 1(2), 2021. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.45
• Inge M. N. Wortel, Can Keşmir, Rob J. Boer, Judith N. Mandl, Johannes Textor:
  Is T Cell Negative Selection a Learning Algorithm?
  Cells 9(3): 690, 2020. doi: 10.3390/cells9030690
• Nicolas Levernier, Johannes Textor, Olivier Bénichou, Raphaël Voituriez:
  Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for d >= 2.
  Physical Review Letters 124(8), 2020. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.080601
• Jasper J.P. Beek, Georgina Flórez-Grau, Mark A.J. Gorris, Till S.M. Mathan, Gerty Schreibelt, Kalijn F. Bol, Johannes Textor, I. Jolanda M. Vries:
  Human pDCs Are Superior to cDC2s in Attracting Cytolytic Lymphocytes in Melanoma Patients Receiving DC Vaccination.
  Cell Reports 30(4): 1027-1038.e4, 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.096
• Benny Chain, Victor Greiff, Johannes Textor, Gur Yaari:
  Editorial: Methods and Applications of Computational Immunology.
  Frontiers in Immunology 10, 2019. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02818
• Kasper M. W. Soekarjo, Johannes Textor, Rob J. Boer:
  Local Attachment Explains Small World–like Properties of Fibroblastic Reticular Cell Networks in Lymph Nodes.
  The Journal of Immunology 202(11): 3318-3325, 2019. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801016
• Benito Zander, Maciej Liśkiewicz, Johannes Textor:
  Separators and adjustment sets in causal graphs: Complete criteria and an algorithmic framework.
  Artificial Intelligence 270: 1-40, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.artint.2018.12.006
• Erinke Grinsven, Johannes Textor, Lucie S. P. Hustin, Katarina Wolf, Leo Koenderman, Nienke Vrisekoop:
  Immature Neutrophils Released in Acute Inflammation Exhibit Efficient Migration despite Incomplete Segmentation of the Nucleus.
  The Journal of Immunology 202(1): 207-217, 2019. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801255