Brendan Furneaux

Brendan Furneaux

Postdoctoral Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department / Division
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Room number
YA C423.1
Email
brendan.r.furneaux@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358469225077
Postal address
Survontie 9

Biography

I primarily work on the development of improved bioinformatic methods for large, global DNA metabarcoding datasets.  I am especially interested in taxonomic identification, species delimitation, and trait inference of "dark taxa", i.e. those which are known only from environmental DNA data, not from specimens or cultures.  My background is in fungal ecology, but I also work with data for other poorly known groups such as insects and protists.

Publications

Publication
2025

Common to rare transfer learning (CORAL) enables inference and prediction for a quarter million rare Malagasy arthropods

Nature Methods.
Ovaskainen, Otso
Winter, Steven
Tikhonov, Gleb
Abrego, Nerea
Anslan, Sten
deWaard, Jeremy R.
deWaard, Stephanie L.
Fisher, Brian L.
Furneaux, Brendan
Hardwick, Bess
Kerdraon, Deirdre
Pentinsaari, Mikko
Raharinjanahary, Dimby
Rajoelison, Eric Tsiriniaina
Ratnasingham, Sujeevan
Somervuo, Panu
Sones, Jayme E.
Zakharov, Evgeny V.
Hebert, Paul D. N.
Roslin, Tomas
Dunson, David
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Research groups

Research group

Predictive Community Ecology Group

A research group jointly run by Nerea Abrego and Otso Ovaskainen at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science