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
- National and international collaboration to facilitate human genomics data sharing in Australia: The Human Genomes Platform Project, ELIXIR All Hands 2022, 8 June 2022.
- Lessons learnt (so far) in building a human genomics data commons, Enabling Openness in Australian Stem Cell Research (EOAR) seminar, 25 April 2022.
- Genome sequencing in meningiomas that have undergone pathological progression (part 2), Melbourne Bioinformatics Lab Presentation, 25 March 2022.
Recent publications
- Identifying colorectal cancer caused by biallelic MUTYH pathogenic variants using tumor mutational signatures, Nature Communications, 2022.
- Rare Germline Variants Are Associated with Rapid Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostate Cancer Treatment: A Pan Prostate Cancer Group Study, European Urology, 2022.
- Phase 2 Study of Neoadjuvant FGFR Inhibition and Androgen Deprivation Therapy Prior to Prostatectomy, Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 2022.
Recent activities
- 25 May, 20212: Lectured Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics, Masters of Science (Bioinformatics), The University of Melbourne
- 29 March, 1 and 6 April, 2022: Lectured Introduction to Python Programming in the Masters of Business Analytics, The Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
- 9 March, 2022: Gave lecture on Bioinformatics Computing Resources for the Masters of Science (Bioinformatics), The University of Melbourne
- 16 February, 2022: Participated and presented at the Australian BioCommons Webinar: Establishing Gen3 to enable better human genome data sharing in Australia
- 8 February, 2022: Participated and presented at NCI-Fujitsu HPC, Cloud and Data Futures Workshop