Panu Juhani Somervuo

Panu Juhani Somervuo

  • PL 65 (Viikinkaari 1)

    00014

    Finland

  • Viikinkaari 1, Biocentre 3

    00790 Helsinki

    Finland

20062025

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Description of research and teaching

My background is in signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Before starting to do bioinformatics, I was working with automatic speech recognition and neural networks at Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology. Year 2005 I moved to Viikki campus of University of Helsinki. During 2005-2010 I did microarray data analysis including detection, gene expression, and array comparative genomic hybridization. Majority of that work was done with custom arrays where I did also the probe design. During that time I participated as a teacher in several microarray courses at UH and IT center CSC, and an Erasmus course in Italy. Year 2010 I joined Metapopulation Research Group to participate in a butterfly sequencing project. I have run NGS teaching courses both at the university and CSC in Finland, at University of Mauritius, Uppsala (Sweden), Cape Town (South Africa), and Bari (Italy). At the moment I am in Otso Ovaskainen's group working to build a taxonomic classifier for DNA data.

Being an engineer, I am interested in machine learning methods and Bayesian modeling. At the same time I am curious to understand biology better.

Fields of Science

  • 113 Computer and information sciences
  • 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology

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Publications and projects within past five years.
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  • Agent-based versus correlative models of species distributions: Evaluation of predictive performance with real and simulated data

    Siren, J., Somervuo, P. & Ovaskainen, O., Jun 2025, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16, 6, p. 1295-1307 13 p.

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  • Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

    Abrego, N., Furneaux, B., Hardwick, B., Somervuo, P., Palorinne, I., Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., Andrew, N. R., Babiy, U. V., Bao, T., Bazzano, G., Bondarchuk, S. N., Bonebrake, T. C., Brennan, G. L., Bret-Harte, S., Bässler, C., Cagnolo, L., Cameron, E. K., Chapurlat, E., Creer, S. & D’Acqui, L. P. & 94 others, de Vere, N., Desprez-Loustau, M. L., Dongmo, M. A. K., Jacobsen, I. B. D., Fisher, B. L., Flores de Jesus, M., Gilbert, G. S., Griffith, G. W., Gritsuk, A. A., Gross, A., Grudd, H., Halme, P., Hanna, R., Hansen, J., Hansen, L. H., Hegbe, A. D. M. T., Hill, S., Hogg, I. D., Hultman, J., Hyde, K. D., Hynson, N. A., Ivanova, N., Karisto, P., Kerdraon, D., Knorre, A., Krisai-Greilhuber, I., Kuzmina, M., Lecomte, N., Lecomte, E., Loaiza, V., Lundin, E., Meire, A., Mešić, A., Miettinen, O., Monkhouse, N., Mortimer, P., Müller, J., Nilsson, R. H., Nonti, P. Y. C., Nordén, J., Nordén, B., Norros, V., Paz, C., Pellikka, P., Pereira, D., Petch, G., Pitkänen, J. M., Popa, F., Potter, C., Purhonen, J., Pätsi, S., Rafiq, A., Raharinjanahary, D., Rakos, N., Rathnayaka, A. R., Raundrup, K., Rebriev, Y. A., Rikkinen, J., Rogers, H. M. K., Rogovsky, A., Rozhkov, Y., Runnel, K., Saarto, A., Savchenko, A., Schlegel, M., Schmidt, N. M., Seibold, S., Skjøth, C., Stengel, E., Sutyrina, S. V., Syvänperä, I., Tedersoo, L., Timm, J., Tipton, L., Toju, H., Uscka-Perzanowska, M., van der Bank, M., van der Bank, F. H., Vandenbrink, B., Ventura, S., Vignisson, S. R., Wang, X., Weisser, W. W., Wijesinghe, S. N., Wright, S. J., Yang, C., Yorou, N. S., Young, A., Yu, D. W., Zakharov, E. V., Hebert, P. D. N., Roslin, T., Ovaskainen, O. & Kurhinen, J., 25 Jul 2024, In: Nature. 631, 8022, p. 835-842 8 p.

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  • A Mobile Application–Based Citizen Science Product to Compile Bird Observations

    Nokelainen, O., Lauha, P., Andrejeff, S., Sundell, J., Hänninen, J., Talaskivi, J., Inkinen, J., Vallinmäki, M., Kallio, A., Vancraeyenest, A., Lehto, H. J., Lehtiö, A., Mutanen, M., Schiestl-Aalto, P., Somervuo, P., Paavola, R. & Ovaskainen, O., Sept 2024, In: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 9, 1

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  • Experimental evidence that root-associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude

    Burg, S., Ovaskainen, O., Furneaux, B., Ivanova, N., Abrahamyan, A., Niittynen, P., Somervuo, P. & Abrego, N., Jun 2024, In: Molecular Ecology. 33, 12, e17376.

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  • Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude

    Seymour, M., Roslin, T., deWaard, J. R., Perez, K. H. J., D’Souza, M. L., Ratnasingham, S., Ashfaq, M., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Blagoev, G. A., Bukowski, B., Cale, P., Crosbie, D., Decaëns, T., deWaard, S. L., Ekrem, T., El-Ansary, H. O., Evouna Ondo, F., Fraser, D., Geiger, M. F. & Hajibabaei, M. & 54 others, Hallwachs, W., Hanisch, P. E., Hausmann, A., Heath, M., Hogg, I. D., Janzen, D. H., Kinnaird, M., Kohn, J. R., Larrivée, M., Lees, D. C., León-Règagnon, V., Liddell, M., Lijtmaer, D. A., Lipinskaya, T., Locke, S. A., Manjunath, R., Martins, D. J., Martins, M. B., Mazumdar, S., McKeown, J. T. A., Anderson-Teixeria, K., Miller, S. E., Milton, M. A., Miskie, R., Morinière, J., Mutanen, M., Naik, S., Nichols, B., Noguera, F. A., Novotny, V., Penev, L., Pentinsaari, M., Quinn, J., Ramsay, L., Rochefort, R., Schmidt, S., Smith, M. A., Sobel, C. N., Somervuo, P., Sones, J. E., Staude, H. S., St. Jaques, B., Stur, E., Telfer, A. C., Tubaro, P. L., Wardlaw, T. J., Worcester, R., Yang, Z., Young, M. R., Zemlak, T., Zakharov, E. V., Zlotnick, B., Ovaskainen, O. & Hebert, P. D. N., Dec 2024, In: Communications Biology. 7, 1, 11 p., 552.

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  • 4 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
  • 2 Academic visit to other institution
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