Biodiversity Informatics and Taxonomy Research Strand
Prof. Urmas Kõljalg
Theme Leader
Biodiversity Informatics Lab
Dr. Kessy Abarenkov
Principal Investigator
PlutoF IT Team
Allan Zirk
Head of Software Development
Kristjan Adojaan
Helpdesk and Training
Filipp Ivanov
AI Engineer
Raivo Pöhönen
Software Developer
Timo Piirmann
Software Developer
Former PhD Students
Marko Peterson
PhD Student
Veljo Runnel
PhD Student
Taxonomy Lab
Prof. Urmas Kõljalg
Principal Investigator
Irja Saar
Researcher
PhD and MSc Students
Toivo Ylinampa
PhD Student
Aleš Jirsa
Visiting PhD Student
Märt Kose
MSc Student
Former PhD Students
Anton Savchenko
Iryna Yatsiuk
Associate Partner
UNITE Community develops tools and services for the rDNA ITS-based identification of Eukaryotes and their communication via Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). It has been the driving force behind the PlutoF platform developments since 2001, and its DOI datasets of Species Hypotheses are published through the PlutoF DOI services. Close collaboration between the UNITE Community and PlutoF development team is neccessary for scientifically sound data services