Bernie Pope
Computer scientist and bioinformatician
Overview
I am an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. My research focuses on applying computational techniques to biological questions, especially related to human genomics and cancer. I am also enthusiastic about education and have extensive experience teaching at the university level.
Roles
- Victorian Health and Medical Research Fellow, Melbourne Bioinformatics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Associate Director of Human Genome Informatics, Australian BioCommons
Other Affiliations
- Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), Department of Medicine, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
- Honorary Clinical Senior Fellow, Department of Surgery (Royal Melbourne Hospital), Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Honorary Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia
News
Recent presentations
- Harmonised PPCG Clinical Data, Pan Prostate Cancer Group Annual Meeting, 20 April 2023.
- Detecting circulating tumour DNA in localised prostate cancer, Pan Prostate Cancer Group Annual Meeting, 20 April 2023.
- Ultra-sensitive detection of circulating tumour DNA enriches for patients with higher risk disease in clinically localised prostate cancer, AACR Special Conference: Advances in Prostate Cancer, 18 March 2023.
Recent publications
- Workflow for SNP genotyping using the Hi-Plex method, protocols.io, 2023.
- A tumor focused approach to resolving the etiology of DNA mismatch repair deficient tumors classified as suspected Lynch syndrome., Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023.
- Somatic mutation landscape in a cohort of meningiomas that have undergone grade progression, BMC Cancer, 2023.
Recent activities
- 13 March - 8 May, 2023: Lectured and Coordinated the subject Coding for Business Problems in the Masters of Business Analytics at the Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
- 19-21 April, 2023: Attended and presented at the Pan Prostate Cancer Group Meeting in Madrid, Spain
- 15-18 March, 2023: Attended and presented a talk at the AACR Special Conference: Advances in Prostate Cancer, Denver, Colorado, USA
- 13 March, 2023: Started lecturing the subject Coding for Business Problems in the Masters of Business Analytics, The Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
- 7 March, 2023: Gave lecture on Introduction to Bioinformatics Computing Resources for the Masters of Science (Bioinformatics), The University of Melbourne