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ArticleThe EMBO journal2026

Systematic analysis of immune cell motility leveraging the open intravital microscopy database Immunemap.

Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli, Pau Carrillo-Barberà, Himanshu Bansal, Elisa Palladino, Kevin Ceni, Benedikt Thelen, Alain Pulfer, Enrico Moscatello, Raffaella Fiamma Cabini, Johannes Textor and 4 more

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Imaging the fate of CAR-T cellsFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli *Institute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland. pizzad@usi.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-7158-5323
Pau Carrillo-Barberà *Institute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6214-6238
Himanshu BansalInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0004-1108-8439
Elisa PalladinoInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Kevin CeniInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Benedikt ThelenEuler Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.
Alain PulferInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Enrico MoscatelloEuler Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.
Raffaella Fiamma CabiniEuler Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2983-989X
Johannes TextorMedical BioSciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Inge M N WortelMedical BioSciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Immunemap Consortium
Rolf KrauseEuler Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.
Santiago Fernandez GonzalezInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona, Switzerland. santiago.gonzalez@irb.usi.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-4166-7664

Funding

Strategies to Overcome Immune Resistance in Head and Neck CancersP01CA240239 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SARTOR, MAUREEN AGNES · 2019 to 2023
$8.4M
Cue-101 and TCR-T cell Combinatorial Strategy for HPV+ Head and Neck CancersR01CA278212 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Sara Isabel Pai · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA240239NCI NIH HHS R01 CA278212Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 189699 and 204636Swissuniversities.ch Swiss Open Research Data Grant CHORD-BUSI FIR
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Abstract

Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of immune cells in living organisms is a major goal in bioimaging. Intravital microscopy enables direct observation of cellular behavior over time with tissue-to-subcellular resolution, making it essential for investigating immune responses across tissues, conditions, and disease contexts. However, most intravital microscopy data remain siloed in individual labs, limiting reuse, standardization, and large-scale analysis. To address these limitations, we present Immunemap, an open-data platform and interactive atlas of immune cell motility. Immunemap currently provides access to over 58,000 curated single-cell tracks and more than 1,049,000 cell-centroid annotations from 400 intravital microscopy videos in murine models, spanning diverse tissues and conditions. The platform supports both exploratory and quantitative research. We show here how unsupervised learning identifies distinct motility patterns, and how large-scale mapping enables comparisons across stimuli, imaging setups, and organs. Its cloud-based architecture offers an interactive web interface and public APIs for integration with computational pipelines. By adhering to FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse) and fostering cross-disciplinary studies, Immunemap supports reproducible research and provides a benchmark for bioimage analysis and tool development in intravital imaging.

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Cell MovementDatabases, FactualIntravital MicroscopyAnimalsMiceBioimage Data AnalysisCell TrackingImmune ResponseIntravital MicroscopySpatiotemporal Dynamics

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PMID41266653
PMCPMC12759063

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