Personnel

Virpi Ahola

Research Manager, Head of Bioinformatics Center

Bioinformatics Center, University of Eastern Finland

My background is in Statistics and Bioinformatics. Last 10+ years I have led or coordinated bioinformatics platforms and multidisciplinary research projects on human and insect genomics. My experience focusses on NGS-based (multi)omics and single-cell analysis. The research questions I have contributed include studies of cancer, neuronal diseases, embryonic development, stem cell-based research and insect evolutionary genomics, as well as genomics research on farm animals, food microbes and plant pathogens. Expertise: bulk & scRNA-seq – snRNA-seq – scATAC-seq – GWAS – WGS – phylogenetics – QTL mapping – genome sequencing & annotation – statistical modelling & machine learning

Juha Kekäläinen

IT-Specialist

Bioinformatics Center, University of Eastern Finland

IT Specialist at Bioinformatics Center and at IT Services for Research. Maintaining, developing and user support of our SLURM HPC cluster. Also maintaining and supporting REDCap data management platform. Expertise: Linux, command line, containers, server infrastructure, workstations (win/mac/linux), network.