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
- 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.
- Advancing Human Genomics data sharing in Australia: Highlights from Australian BioCommons’ Human Genome Informatics initiative, eResearch NZ, 16 February 2023.
- 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.
Recent publications
- Somatic mutation landscape in a cohort of meningiomas that have undergone grade progression, BMC Cancer, 2023.
- 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.
Recent activities
- 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
- 3,6,8 February, 2023: Lectured Introduction to Python Programming in the Masters of Business Analytics, The Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
- 30 November, 2022: Attended the ABACBS Conference and chaired a session at the Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium, Melbourne