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Harri Lähdesmäki

Harri Lähdesmäki

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Biology and Biochemistry

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55
Citations
12965
World Ranking
14904
National Ranking
103

Overview

Harri Lähdesmäki is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, immunology, artificial intelligence, genetics, and statistics and probability.

The primary topics of their research encompass immune cell function and interaction, Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference, epigenetics and DNA methylation, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, gene expression and cancer classification, as well as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Harri Lähdesmäki's recent publications demonstrate a focus on immunology and computational biology, with notable papers including:

  • Predicting recognition between T cell receptors and epitopes with TCRGP, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Single-cell characterization of anti-LAG-3 and anti-PD-1 combination treatment in patients with melanoma, 2023, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Somatic mutations in lymphocytes in patients with immune-mediated aplastic anemia, 2021, Leukemia
  • Congruent microbiome signatures in fibrosis-prone autoimmune diseases: IgG4-related disease and systemic sclerosis, 2021, Genome Medicine
  • Single-cell characterization of leukemic and non-leukemic immune repertoires in CD8+ T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukemia, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jani Huuhtanen
  • Satu Mustjoki
  • Markus Heinonen
  • Viivi Halla-aho
  • Emmi Jokinen

Harri Lähdesmäki's work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Blood
  • BMC Bioinformatics

The body of research by Lähdesmäki combines expertise in both biological sciences and computational methodologies. The interplay between these disciplines is evident through studies employing Bayesian inference and Gaussian processes applied to immune system research and transcriptomic data analysis.

Best Publications

  • Variation in Microbiome LPS Immunogenicity Contributes to Autoimmunity in Humans

    Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Eva D'Hennezel;Heli Siljander

  • The Dynamics of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome in Development and in Progression toward Type 1 Diabetes

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Dirk Gevers;Heli Siljander;Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen

  • The human gut microbiome in early-onset type 1 diabetes from the TEDDY study

    Tommi Vatanen;Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Randall Schwager;Surya Tripathi

  • The Transcription Factor NFAT Promotes Exhaustion of Activated CD8+ T Cells

    Gustavo J. Martinez;Renata M. Pereira;Tarmo Äijö;Tarmo Äijö;Edward Y. Kim

  • Modulation of TET2 expression and 5-methylcytosine oxidation by the CXXC domain protein IDAX

    Myunggon Ko;Jungeun An;Hozefa S. Bandukwala;Lukas Chavez

  • On Learning Gene Regulatory Networks Under the Boolean Network Model

    Harri Lähdesmäki;Ilya Shmulevich;Olli Yli-Harja

  • Control of Foxp3 stability through modulation of TET activity.

    Xiaojing Yue;Sara Trifari;Tarmo Äijö;Tarmo Äijö;Ageliki Tsagaratou

  • Androgen-regulated miR-32 targets BTG2 and is overexpressed in castration-resistant prostate cancer

    S E Jalava;A Urbanucci;L Latonen;K K Waltering

  • Differential gene and protein expression in primary breast malignancies and their lymph node metastases as revealed by combined cDNA microarray and tissue microarray analysis.

    Xishan Hao;Baocun Sun;Limei Hu;Harri Lähdesmäki;Harri Lähdesmäki

  • Genomic variation and strain-specific functional adaptation in the human gut microbiome during early life.

    Tommi Vatanen;Damian R. Plichta;Juhi Somani;Philipp C. Münch

  • Innate immune activity is detected prior to seroconversion in children with HLA-conferred type 1 diabetes susceptibility

    Henna Kallionpaa;Laura L. Elo;Essi Laajala;Juha Mykkanen

  • Cancer-associated ASXL1 mutations may act as gain-of-function mutations of the ASXL1–BAP1 complex

    Anand Balasubramani;Antti Larjo;Jed A. Bassein;Xing Chang

  • The role of certain Post classes in Boolean network models of genetic networks

    Ilya Shmulevich;Harri Lähdesmäki;Harri Lähdesmäki;Edward R. Dougherty;Jaakko Astola

  • Genome-wide profiling of interleukin-4 and STAT6 transcription factor regulation of human Th2 cell programming.

    Laura L. Elo;Henna Järvenpää;Soile Tuomela;Sunil Raghav

  • Overexpression of androgen receptor enhances the binding of the receptor to the chromatin in prostate cancer.

    A. Urbanucci;B. Sahu;J. Seppälä;A. Larjo

  • Robust detection of periodic time series measured from biological systems.

    Miika Ahdesmäki;Harri Lähdesmäki;Ronald K. Pearson;Heikki Huttunen

  • Dissecting the dynamic changes of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in T-cell development and differentiation

    Ageliki Tsagaratou;Tarmo Äijö;Chan-Wang J. Lio;Xiaojing Yue

  • Relationships between probabilistic Boolean networks and dynamic Bayesian networks as models of gene regulatory networks

    Harri Lähdesmäki;Sampsa Hautaniemi;Ilya Shmulevich;Olli Yli-Harja

  • Quantitative proteomics analysis of signalosome dynamics in primary T cells identifies the surface receptor CD6 as a Lat adaptor–independent TCR signaling hub

    Romain Roncagalli;Simon Hauri;Fréderic Fiore;Fréderic Fiore;Fréderic Fiore;Yinming Liang;Yinming Liang;Yinming Liang

  • Genomic variation and strain-specific functional adaptation in the human gut microbiome during early life

    Tommi Vatanen;Damian R. Plichta;Juhi Somani;Philipp C. Muench

Frequent Co-Authors

Riitta Lahesmaa
Riitta Lahesmaa Åbo Akademi University
Jorma Ilonen
Jorma Ilonen University of Turku
Ilya Shmulevich
Ilya Shmulevich Institute for Systems Biology
Mikael Knip
Mikael Knip University of Helsinki
Anjana Rao
Anjana Rao La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Satu Mustjoki
Satu Mustjoki University of Helsinki
Samuel Kaski
Samuel Kaski Aalto University
Suvi M. Virtanen
Suvi M. Virtanen Tampere University
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute

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