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
- Enhancing Australia’s capability for secure and responsible sharing of human genomics research data, The Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) 2022 National Conference, 30 November 2022.
- Australian BioCommons, Bioplatforms Australia 2022 All Hands Meeting, 19 October 2022.
- Enhancing Australia’s capability for secure and responsible sharing of human genome research data: The Human Genomes Platform Project, eResearch Australasia 2022 Conference, 19 October 2022.
Recent publications
- A polygenic two-hit hypothesis for prostate cancer, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2023.
- Evaluating multiple next-generation sequencing derived tumor features to accurately predict DNA mismatch repair status, The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2022.
- VIVID: A Web Application for Variant Interpretation and Visualization in Multi-dimensional Analyses, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022.
Recent activities
- 30 November, 2022: Attended the ABACBS Conference and chaired a session at the Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium, Melbourne
- 15-16 November, 2022: Attended the Human Genomes Platforms Project Face-to-Face meeting, Sydney
- 19-20 October, 2022: Attended the Bioplatforms Australia All Hands Meeting, Sydney
- 10-12 October, 2022: Attended the Pan Prostate Cancer Group Meeting in Camogli, Italy
- 23 August, 2022: Gave lecture on Machine Learning, Masters of Science (Bioinformatics), The University of Melbourne