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
- Hatching a plot (and more) on the command line, Bioinformaticians' Shed, 28 October 2021.
- Hatching a plot (and more) on the command line (part 3), Melbourne Bioinformatics Lab Presentation, 15 October 2021.
- Detecting circulating tumour DNA in localized prostate cancer, University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research (UMCCR) seminar series, 28 July 2021.
Recent publications
- Long-read assembly and comparative evidence-based reanalysis of Cryptosporidium genome sequences reveals expanded transporter repertoire and duplication of entire chromosome ends including subtelomeric regions, Genome Research, 2021.
- MSH2-deficient prostate tumours have a distinct immune response and clinical outcome compared to MSH2-deficient colorectal or endometrial cancer, Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 2021.
- Evaluating the utility of tumour mutational signatures for identifying hereditary colorectal cancer and polyposis syndrome carriers, Gut, 2021.
Recent activities
- 13 July 2021: Participated in the Health and Medical Research Sector Workforce Workshop 3, Melbourne
- 4 June 2021: Participated in the Health and Medical Research Sector Workforce Workshop 2, Melbourne
- 11 May 2021: Participated in the Health and Medical Research Sector Workforce Workshop 1, Melbourne
- 6 May 2021: Lectured Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics, Masters of Science (Bioinformatics), The University of Melbourne.
- 30 March, 1 and 6 April, 2021: Lectured Introduction to Python Programming in the Masters of Business Analytics, The Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne.