Dr Alicia Oshlack
Head of Bioinformatics
Cell Biology
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Alicia Oshlack is a leader in implementing new bioinformatics methods in the biomedical context. She is a current National Health Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow with a growing national and international reputation. A/prof Oshlack's bioinformatics expertise is not just in analysis but also in methods development which leads to many independent research projects and publications. She is best known for her work on the analysis of RNA sequencing data but also works in the fields of epigenetics, clinical genomics and cancer. She started her research career as an astrophysicist before moving to Walter and Eliza Hall as a post-doctoral scholar in the Bioinformatics division. She joined the Murdoch Childrens as Head of Bioinformatics in 2011.
Research Interest
Methods for analysing RNA-sequencing data, Analysis of epigenetic data, Clinical genomics data analysis including exome analysis, Cancer genomics and Single-cell analysis
Publications
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Robinson MD, Oshlack A. A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data. Genome biology. 2010 Mar 2;11(3):R25.
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Oshlack A, Robinson MD, Young MD. From RNA-seq reads to differential expression results. Genome biology. 2010 Dec 22;11(12):220.
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Sadedin SP, Pope B, Oshlack A. Bpipe: a tool for running and managing bioinformatics pipelines. Bioinformatics. 2012 Apr 12;28(11):1525-6.
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Maksimovic J, Gordon L, Oshlack A. SWAN: Subset-quantile within array normalization for illumina infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips. Genome biology. 2012 Jun 15;13(6):R44.
