Dr Denis Bauer
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Biography
Dr. Denis Bauer is the team leader of the transformational bioinformatics team in CSIRO’s ehealth program. Her expertise is in high throughput genomic data analysis, computational genome engineering, as well as Spark/Hadoop and high-performance compute system.
She has a PhD in Bioinformatics and has done her Postdoctoral training in machine learning and human genetics, respectively. Her collaborators include Prof Simon Foote on mammalian susceptibility to infectious diseases, Prof Ian Blair on molecular mechanisms on motor neuron disease, and Prof Rodney Scott on obesity-driven cancer.
She is involved in national and international initiatives tasked to include genomic information into medical practice, funded with $200M. She has 29 peer-reviewed publications (14 as first or senior author) with six in journals of IF8 (e.g. Nat Genet.) and H-index 11. To date she has attracted more than $6.5Million in funding as Chief investigator.
Current Roles
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Researcher
An integrative approach to next-generation 'omics
Academic Qualifications
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2010
PhD, Bioinformatics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia -
2005
BSc Hons, Computational Biology
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia -
2004
BSc, Bioinformatics
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Professional Experiences
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2012
Research Scientist
CSIRO -
2010-2012
Postdoctoral research fellow (Centre for Brain Genomics)
Queensland Brain Institute -
2012-2012
Visiting Scholar
UW Genome Sciences -
2009-2010
Research Officer
Institute for Molecular Bioscience -
2010-2012
Postdoctoral research fellow
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia -
2009-2010
Research Officer
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia -
2012-2012
Visiting Scholar
UW Genome Sciences
Achievements and Awards
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2008
Outstanding Individual Award
IMBcom -
2008
Best student paper award
IAPR Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics -
2011
Infotech Research Award (finalist)
Women in Technology (WiT) -
2013
Early Career Researcher Award
Translational Cancer Research Conference
Other highlights
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2009
The FANTOM Consortium et al., “The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line.”, Nat Genet. 2009. IF 36.4 Cited: 146
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2013
Bio-IT World asia - Singapore (invited speaker)
Grants
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2014-2015
OCE Cutting Edge Science Symposium "Precise genomic engineering"
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2013-2015
NSW Cancer Institute “Link between Obesity and Cancer”
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2012-2013
CIC: URC Small Grants Schema "Early life events on gut microbes" (Caroline Kerr)
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2013-2014
PI: Accelerated Science Data Program "Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis Enterprise-wide (NGSANE)"
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2013-2014
PI: Accelerated Science Data Program "The Cancer Gene Atlas (TCGA)"
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2015-2020
AI NHMRC TCR into Genomics "Preparing Australia for Genomic Medicine"
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2015-2020
NHMRC Dementia Research Team Grant "Developing insight into the molecular origins of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"