People

Group leader

Juulia Jylhävä

Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow | Tampere Institute for Advanced Study Yliopistotutkija | Tutkijakollegium
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
+358504784181
juulia.jylhava@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0250-4491

About me

I am the group leader of the Systems Biology of Aging research group at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University. My research group studies biological aging — how to measure it, what drives it, and how it’s linked to adverse outcomes, such as age-related diseases and mortality. We use genetic, multiomics and AI approaches and causal inference methods to unravel why some people age in good health while others become frail and dependent on assistance earlier in life. Another aim and ongoing project in our group is to develop an electronic frailty index for healthcare – a tool to measure whole-organism aging and identify vulnerable individuals at early stages.

Group members

Jake Lin

Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
+358504799530
jake.lin@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-1663

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About me

Jake is a senior research fellow in the Systems Biology for Aging as well as the Biostatistics group.
His research focus includes in multivariate genome-wide association testing, statistical and machine learning towards omics integration to investigate genetic and environmental factors driving frailty, autism and T1D. He contributes to the following projects: FinnGen, GEMMA and DIPP/TEDDY.
After receiving his PhD (Bioinformatics) in 2018 from Tampere University, he worked for 4 years in Statistical Genetics, FIMM, University of Helsinki where he focused on development and application of multivariate genome-wide models and received a 3-year Postdoctoral researcher grant from the Research Council of Finland in 2019. His work has both focused on method implementation for omics data and analysis.

Responsibilities

AI-NLP processing for EFI construction and modeling

Omics integration for GEMMA

Multivariate GWAS

Research topics

ASD, T1D, Frailty

Population genetics

Omics integration

Machine learning and AI

Project links

GEMMA
TEDDY

Mission statement

Improve specificity and interpretability of genetic associations and consequential host responses with environmental factors, such as virome exposures driving diseases progression, such as mental health impacting young children as well as T1D, with omics integration.

Constructing eFI for aging using AI guided solutions.

Parinaz Poursafa

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
parinaz.poursafa@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-4122

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About me

I am postdoctoral research fellow in the Systems biology of aging research group (https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/systems-biology-aging-bioage), Faculty of Medicine and health Technology, Tampere University.

With a background in environmental health sciences, my focus is on understanding how environmental exposures could impact biological aging.

Previously I was PI of Kone Foundation funded post-doctoral Project (May 2022- May2024):

''Evaluation and reduction of new Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Pre-schools of Finland''

Project links

''Evaluation and reduction of new Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Pre-schools of Finland''

Tomi Korpi

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
tomi.korpi@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0217-8291

Juho Kaijansinkko

Research Assistant
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
+358504619774
juho.kaijansinkko@tuni.fi

Tuukka Tiainen

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Tampere University
tuukka.tiainen@tuni.fi