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Joanna Pylvänäinen is a Project Researcher at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, specializing in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. She is affiliated with the InFLAMES flagship program (Innovation Ecosystem based on the Immune System) focusing on health-related solutions.
Her research interests include:
- Bioimage analysis
- Live cell imaging
- Quantitative cell biology
- Software development for life science applications
- Flow dynamics
- Cancer cell biology
- Image analysis software
- Cell tracking
- Microfluidics
- 4D microscopy
The research articles and publications cover a broad range of topics in image analysis, software development for life sciences, cell tracking, and microfluidics applications in biological research. The datasets she has contributed to focus on these same areas, showing a consistent research trajectory in computational biology and advanced imaging techniques.
Joanna is active in developing tools and platforms for life scientists, with a particular focus on making bioimage analysis more accessible and on reducing technical challenges in live cell imaging. She is also interested in addressing phototoxicity issues and improving workflow efficiency in quantitative cell biology research.
Her work includes contributions to educational tools like Ocul-AR for microscopy learning, Fast4DReg for microscopy data registration, and CellTracksColab for cell tracking data analysis. She is involved in the development of TrackMate 7 for integrating state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms into tracking pipelines.
