Prof Jukka Corander
Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Professor at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
The Corander group has developed multiple methods for statistical population genomics in bacteria, including population structure estimation (BAPS, hierBAPS, fastbaps), GWAS (SEER, pyseer) and GWES (SuperDCA, SpydrPick). They are currently coordinating the development of the ELFI software for likelihood-free inference for computer simulator-based models. The statistical methods developed by the Corander group have led to numerous discoveries on the evolution, resistance, virulence and transmission of pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
Collaborative Projects
The BATTALION project that aims to develop systems biology level understanding about mechanisms behind colonization success, acquisition of resistance elements and their dissemination dynamics in E. coli. The project uses systematic longitudinal surveys of isolates from infections, combining short- and long-read sequencing of DNA, with population RNA-seq and experimental techniques to reach its ambitious goals.
The CARDAMOM project, in collaboration with Professor Paul Turner from the University of Oxford, which aims to understand the effects of hospital visits and antibiotic treatment on the pathogenic bacteria colonizing the nasopharynx and gut of infants in a low-resource setting.
Personal Bio
Jukka Corander received a PhD at Stockholm University in 2000, where he studied Bayesian learning of graphical models. Following a period as a senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Jukka became a Professor in statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Åbo Akademi University. In 2016 Jukka became a Professor of biostatistics at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway and, since 2009, has also been a Professor of statistics at University of Helsinki, Finland.