Dr Denis Bauer
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Biography
Dr. Denis Bauer is the team leader of the transformational bioinformatics team at Australia’s research agency, CSIRO. She has a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Queensland and held Post-doctoral appointments in biological machine learning at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and high-throughput genetics at the Queensland Brain institute.
Her machine learning solutions for processing genomic and genome engineering Big Data efficiently have been featured in Blogs (AWS Jeff Barr, Databricks) as well as the international press (GenomeWeb, CIO magazine) and was included in ComputerWeekly’s “Top 10 IT stories of 2017”.
She presented the Keynotes at YOW! 2017 (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane 500 attendees each), AgileIndia 2018 (1500 attendees) and AI Dev Days 2018 (300 attendees) and is involved in national and international initiatives tasked to include genomic information into medical practice, funded with $200M in AU. She has 31 peer-reviewed publications (14 as first or senior author) with 7 in journals of IF8 (e.g. Nat Genet.) and H-index 12. 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)
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2017
Strata Data (O’Reilly and Cloudera) invited speaker
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2017
Keynote YOW! Conference
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2018
Keynote AgileIndia (1500 attendees)
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2018
Keynote AI Dev Days (300 attendees)
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"