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Professor Department of Pharmacy jukka.i.corander@uit.no Tromsø

Jukka Ilmari Corander



  • Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Maiju Pesonen, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Tommi Mäklin, Neil Zhang Nian Zhong MacAlasdair, Harry Thorpe et al.:
    Identification of transporter-dependent capsular loci associated with the invasive potential of Escherichia coli
    Nature Microbiology 25. March 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Paul Blomstedt, Diego Mesquita, Omar Rivasplata, Jarno Lintusaari, Tuomas Sivula, Jukka Corander et al.:
    Meta-Analysis of Bayesian Analyses
    Bayesian Analysis 01. March 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Theodor Anton Ross, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Einar Holsbø, Ørjan Samuelsen, Kristin Hegstad, Michael Kampffmeyer et al.:
    Machine learning-based lineage prediction from antimicrobial susceptibility testing phenotypes for Escherichia coli sequence type 131 clade C surveillance across infection types
    Microbial Genomics 01. January 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Marjorie J. Gibbon, Natacha Couto, Keira Cozens, Samia Habib, Lauren Cowley, David M. Aanensen et al.:
    Convergence and global molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids harbouring the iuc3 virulence locus: a population genomic analysis
    Lancet Microbe 06. January 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Lewis W.S. Fisher, Harry Thorpe, Davide Sassera, Jukka Corander, Josephine M. Bryant :
    High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    Nature Communications 25. November 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Fanni Ojala, Henri Pesonen, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Tommi Mäklin, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Pekka Marttinen et al.:
    Basic reproduction number varies markedly between closely related pandemic Escherichia coli clones
    Nature Communications 04. November 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Neil Zhang Nian Zhong MacAlasdair, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Clare Ling, Sudaraka Mallawaarachchi, Janjira Thaipadungpanit, Francois H. Nosten et al.:
    Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales
    Nature Microbiology 31. October 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Juri Kuronen, Jukka Corander, Johan Pensar :
    Learning pairwise Markov network structures using correlation neighborhoods
    Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 26. December 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Christina Brux Mburu, Hélène Carabin, Carlos Goncalo Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves, Barbara Häsler, Jakob Zinsstag et al.:
    The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems
    The Lancet 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Theodor Anton Ross, Jessin Janice, Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Iren Høyland Löhr, Einar Holsbø, Jukka Corander et al.:
    Enterococcus lactis is ecologically and genetically distinct from the major opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus faecium
    Microbial Genomics 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Meng Wang, Longyang Jin, Ruobing Wang, Qi Wang, Shuyi Wang, Xingyu Wu et al.:
    KpnK48 clone driving hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli epidemics: Insights into its evolutionary trajectory similar to Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Drug resistance updates 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, João Alves Gama, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Klaus Harms, Gerry Tonkin-Hill et al.:
    Plasmid-driven strategies for clone success in Escherichia coli
    Nature Communications 03. April 2025 DOI / ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Henri Pesonen, Jukka Corander :
    Stratified distance space improves the efficiency of sequential samplers for approximate Bayesian computation
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Owen Matthew Truscott Thomas, Raquel Sá-Leão, Hermínia de Lencastre, Samuel Kaski, Jukka Corander, Henri Pesonen :
    Misspecification-robust likelihood-free inference in high dimensions
    Computational statistics (Zeitschrift) 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Marko Juhani Järvenpää, Jukka Corander :
    Approximate Bayesian inference from noisy likelihoods with Gaussian process emulated MCMC
    Journal of machine learning research 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Petrus Mikkola, Osvaldo A. Martin, Suyog Chandramouli, Marcelo Hartmann, Oriol Abril Pla, Owen Matthew Truscott Thomas et al.:
    Prior Knowledge Elicitation: The Past, Present, and Future
    Bayesian Analysis 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Jessica Kate Calland, Maiju Pesonen, Jai Mehat, Ben Pascoe, David J. Haydon, Jose Lourenco et al.:
    Genomic tailoring of autogenous poultry vaccines to reduce Campylobacter from farm to fork
    npj Vaccines 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Henri Pesonen, Maiju Pesonen, Francois Pierre Alexandre Cleon, Benjamin J Parcell et al.:
    Modulation of multidrug-resistant clone success in Escherichia coli populations: a longitudinal, multi-country, genomic and antibiotic usage cohort study
    Lancet Microbe 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Aidan J. Taylor, Koji Yahara, Ben Pascoe, Seungwon Ko, Leonardos Mageiros, Evangelos Mourkas et al.:
    Epistasis, core-genome disharmony, and adaptation in recombining bacteria
    mBio 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Julian A. Paganini, Jesse J. Kerkvliet, Lisa Vader, Nienke L. Plantinga, Rodrigo Meneses, Jukka Corander et al.:
    PlasmidEC and gplas2: an optimized short-read approach to predict and reconstruct antibiotic resistance plasmids in Escherichia coli
    Microbial Genomics 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Srijana Bastakoti, Maiju Pesonen, Clément Ajayi, Kjersti Julin, Jukka Corander, Mona Susan Johannessen et al.:
    Co-culturing with Streptococcus anginosus alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome when exposed to tonsillar cells
    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Juri Kuronen, Samuel T. Horsfield, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Sudaraka Mallawaarachchi, Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Harry Thorpe et al.:
    Pangenome-spanning epistasis and coselection analysis via de Bruijn graphs
    Genome Research 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sophie Belman, Henri Pesonen, Nicholas J. Croucher, Stephen D. Bentley, Jukka Corander :
    Estimating between-country migration in pneumococcal populations
    G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sudaraka Mallawa Arachchi, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Jessica Kate Calland, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Sergio Arredondo Alonso et al.:
    Detecting co-selection through excess linkage disequilibrium in bacterial genomes
    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sreymom Pol, Teemu Kallonen, Tommi Mäklin, Poda Sar, Jill Hopkins, Sona Soeng et al.:
    Exploring the pediatric nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota with culture-based MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and targeted metagenomic sequencing
    mBio 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Harry Thorpe, Maiju Pesonen, Marta Corbella, Henri Pesonen, Stefano Gaiarsa, Christine J Boinett et al.:
    Pan-pathogen deep sequencing of nosocomial bacterial pathogens in Italy in spring 2020: a prospective cohort study
    Lancet Microbe 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Kara K. Tsang, Margaret M C Lam, Ryan R. Wick, Kelly L. Wyres, Michael Bachman, Stephen Baker et al.:
    Diversity, functional classification and genotyping of SHV β-lactamases in Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Microbial Genomics 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Erik Štrumbelj, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Jukka Corander, Andrew Gelman, Håvard Rue, Lawrence Murray et al.:
    Past, Present and Future of Software for Bayesian Inference
    Statistical Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tamim Khawaja, Tommi Mäklin, Teemu Kallonen, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Sointu Mero et al.:
    Deep sequencing of Escherichia coli exposes colonisation diversity and impact of antibiotics in Punjab, Pakistan
    Nature Communications 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Ben Pascoe, Georgina Futcher, Johan Pensar, Sion C. Bayliss, Evangelos Mourkas, Jessica Kate Calland et al.:
    Machine learning to attribute the source of Campylobacter infections in the United States: A retrospective analysis of national surveillance data
    Journal of Infection 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Ana P. Pereira, Patrícia Antunes, Paula Bierge, Rob J.L. Willems, Jukka Corander, Teresa M. Coque et al.:
    Unraveling Enterococcus susceptibility to quaternary ammonium compounds: genes, phenotypes, and the impact of environmental conditions
    Microbiology spectrum 22. September 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, João Alves Gama, Anita C. Schürch, Val F. Lanza et al.:
    Mge-cluster: a reference-free approach for typing bacterial plasmids
    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Jessica Kate Calland, Kaisa Haukka, Stephen W Kpordze, Atanyiwoen Brusah, Marta Corbella, Cristina Merla et al.:
    Population structure and antimicrobial resistance among Klebsiella isolates sampled from human, animal, and environmental sources in Ghana: a cross-sectional genomic One Health study
    Lancet Microbe 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Christopher H. Connor, Amanda Z. Zucoloto, John T. Munnoch, Ian-Ling Yu, Jukka Corander, Paul A. Hoskisson et al.:
    Multidrug-resistant E. coli encoding high genetic diversity in carbohydrate metabolism genes displace commensal E. coli from the intestinal tract
    PLoS Biology 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Chrispin Chaguza, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Janetta Top, Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Ana R. Freitas, Carla Novais et al.:
    The population-level impact of Enterococcus faecalis genetics on intestinal colonization and extraintestinal infection
    Microbiology spectrum 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Zhirong Yang, Yuwei Chen, Denis Sedov, Samuel Kaski, Jukka Corander :
    Stochastic Cluster Embedding
    Statistics and computing 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Jukka Corander, Julian Parkhill :
    Challenges in prokaryote pangenomics
    Microbial Genomics 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Stephen D. Bentley, Jukka Corander :
    Robust analysis of prokaryotic pangenome gene gain and loss rates with Panstripe
    Genome Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Ann E. Snaith, Steven J. Dunn, Robert A. Moran, Paul N. Newton, David A. B. Dance, Viengmon Davong et al.:
    The highly diverse plasmid population found in Escherichia coli colonizing travellers to Laos and its role in antimicrobial resistance gene carriage
    Microbial Genomics 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Umberto Picchini, Umberto Simola, Jukka Corander :
    Sequentially Guided MCMC Proposals for Synthetic Likelihoods and Correlated Synthetic Likelihoods
    Bayesian Analysis 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Andreia Rebelo, Bárbara Duarte, Carolina Ferreira, Joana Mourão, Sofia Ribeiro, Ana R. Freitas et al.:
    Enterococcus spp. from chicken meat collected 20 years apart overcome multiple stresses occurring in the poultry production chain: Antibiotics, copper and acids
    International journal of food microbiology 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Greta Petazzoni, Greta Bellinzona, Cristina Merla, Marta Corbella, Vincenzina Monzillo, Ørjan Samuelsen et al.:
    The COVID-19 Pandemic Sparked off a Large-Scale Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from the Endemic Strains at an Italian Hospital
    Microbiology spectrum 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • The Tien Mai, John A Lees, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Jukka Corander :
    Inferring the heritability of bacterial traits in the era of machine learning
    Bioinformatics Advances 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sergio Arredondo Alonso, George Blundell-Hunter, Zuyi Fu, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Alfred Fillol-Salom, Jessica Loraine et al.:
    Evolutionary and functional history of the Escherichia coli K1 capsule
    Nature Communications 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tommi Mäklin, Aurora Taira, Sergio Arredondo Alonso, Yan Shao, Michael R Stratton, Trevor D Lawley et al.:
    Geographical variation in the incidence of colorectal cancer and urinary tract cancer is associated with population exposure to colibactin-producing Escherichia coli
    Lancet Microbe 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kesorn Angchagun, Phumrapee Boonklang, Chalita Chomkatekaew, Sukritpong Pakdeerat, Gumphol Wongsuwan, Premjit Amornchai et al.:
    BurkHostGEN: a study protocol for evaluating variations in the Burkholderia pseudomallei and host genomes associated with melioidosis infection
    Wellcome Open Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Srijana Bastakoti, Maiju Pesonen, Clément Ajayi, Kjersti Julin, Jukka Corander, Mona Susan Johannessen et al.:
    Co-culturing with Streptococcus anginosus alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome when exposed to tonsillar cells
    2023 ARKIV
  • Anne-Merethe Christiansen Hanssen, Clément Ajayi, Mona Susan Johannessen, Kjersti Julin, Maiju Pesonen, Jukka Corander et al.:
    Co-culturing with Streptococcus anginosus alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome when exposed to tonsillar cells
    2023 ARKIV
  • Srijana Bastakoti, maiju Pesonen, Clément Ajayi, Kjersti Julin, Mona Susan Johannessen, Jukka Corander et al.:
    Co-culturing with Streptococcus anginosus alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome when exposed to tonsillar cells
    2023 ARKIV
  • Srijana Bastakoti, Maiju Pesonen, Clément Ajayi, Kjersti Julin, Jukka Corander, Mona Susan Johannessen et al.:
    Co-culturing with Streptococcus anginosus alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome when exposed to tonsillar cells
    2023 ARKIV

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