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
- Population-based estimates of breast cancer risk for carriers of pathogenic variants identified by gene-panel testing, npj Breast Cancer, 2021.
- SNPPar: identifying convergent evolution and other homoplasies from microbial whole-genome alignments, Microbial Genomics, 2021.
- Rare germline variants in the AXIN2 gene in families with colonic polyposis and colorectal cancer, Familial Cancer, 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.