Publications and communications of Raphaël La Rocca

Bub, L.* , Evren, E.* , Verwaerde, S.* , Ruscitti, C., Vanneste, D., Ghosh, P., Gao, Y., Sleiers, N., Deng, R., López Montes, M., Howley, K., La Rocca, R., Niehrs, A., Glaros, V., Reina-Campos, M., Dahlen, B., Smed-Sörensen, A., Lund, H., Kreslavsky, T., ... Willinger, T.*. (06 April 2026). Sensing of metabolic signals via GPR183 promotes occupation of lung macrophage niches by monocytes. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 223 (4). doi:10.1084/jem.20252667
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Vanneste, D., Peng, W., Liu, Z., Hamaïdia, M., La Rocca, R., Abinet, J., Balthazar, A., Perin, F., Hego, A., Cataldo, D., Bureau, F., Compère, P., Machiels, B., Scott, C. L., Radermecker, C., & Marichal, T. (2026). MafB is a conserved transcriptional regulator of macrophage development and functional identity across tissues and species. Immunity. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2026.01.012

Redureau, D.* , Dunbar, J. P.* , La Rocca, R., de Monts de Savasse, A., Bastiaens, Q., Bertrand, V., Kune, C., Tiquet, M., Far, J., De Pauw, E., Dugon, M. M., & Quinton, L. (03 September 2025). Organ-resolved lipid mapping in Steatoda nobilis spider model using high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging and Kendrick mass defect analysis. Frontiers in Chemistry, 13. doi:10.3389/fchem.2025.1658546
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

La Rocca, R., Cioppa, A., Ferrarini, E., Höfte, M., Van Droogenbroeck, M., De Pauw, E., Eppe, G., & Quinton, L. (2025). Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Robust Mass Spectrum Classification. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. doi:10.1021/jasms.5c00055

Burguet, P., La Rocca, R., Kune, C., Tellatin, D., Stulanovic, N., Rigolet, A., Far, J., Ongena, M., Rigali, S., & Quinton, L. (2024). Exploiting Differential Signal Filtering (DSF) and Image Structure Filtering (ISF) Methods for Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Bacterial Metabolites. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. doi:10.1021/jasms.4c00129

Burguet, P., La Rocca, R., Kune, C., Tellatin, D., Rigali, S., & Quinton, L. (29 August 2023). Method optimization with innovative bioinformatics tools for a rapid visualization of sample-specific signals in MSI of bacterial co-culture [Poster presentation]. ASMS 2023, Houston, United States.

Tiquet, M., La Rocca, R., Kirnbauer, S., Zoratto, S., Van Kruining, D., Quinton, L., Eppe, G., Martinez-Martinez, P., Marchetti-Deschmann, M., De Pauw, E., & Far, J. (05 July 2022). FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Imaging at Extreme Mass Resolving Power Using a Dynamically Harmonized ICR Cell with 1ω or 2ω Detection. Analytical Chemistry, 94 (26), 9316-9326. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00754

La Rocca, R., Bertrand, V., Eppe, G., De Pauw, E., & Quinton, L. (09 June 2022). Application of deep learning for linking microscope image features to ionic signal distribution [Poster presentation]. American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2022, Minneapolis, United States.

La Rocca, R., Mc Cann, A., Ferrarini, E., Hofte, H., De Pauw, E., Eppe, G., & Quinton, L. (November 2021). Automatic metabolome profiling of bacterial colony heterogeneity by multimodal imaging with mass spectrometry and microscopy [Poster presentation]. ASMS 2021 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States.

Tiquet, M., La Rocca, R., Far, J., Quinton, L., De Pauw, E., van Kruining, D. (Other coll.), & Martinez-Martinez, P. (Other coll.). (01 April 2019). Effect of ion counts stability during dynamically harmonized FT-ICR-MSI [Poster presentation]. 4th NVMS-BSMS conference, Rolduc, Netherlands.