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Biography
Dr Denis Bauer is a government research scientist, adjunct professor at Sydney and Macquarie University, and an AWS Hero. Her unique approach of joining cloud-computing with deep biological domain knowledge translates research into impactful products that have been used for disease gene detection in Motor Neuron Disease and the COVID-19 vaccine development. She chairs the Westmead Research Hub Bioinformatics committee, is the senior author on a Nature Biotechnology publication, as well as keynotes international IT and Medical conferences. She was recognized in the Women in AI awards 2022 and is affiliated with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. She has attracted more than $50M in funding to further life-science research and digital health.
Denis has a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor in Bioinformatics from Germany. She has a Graduate certificate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Certificate in Executive Management and Development from the University of New South Wales Business School.
Current Roles
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Group leader
Transformational Bioinformatics Group -
Researcher
An integrative approach to next-generation 'omics -
Project Leader
Cloud-based genomic services
Academic Qualifications
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2004
BSc, Bioinformatics
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany -
2005
BSc Hons, Computational Biology
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia -
2010
PhD, Bioinformatics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia -
2018
Certificate in Executive Management and Development
UNSW
Professional Experiences
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2009-2010
Research Officer
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia -
2010-2012
Postdoctoral research fellow (Centre for Brain Genomics)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia -
2012-present
Research Scientist
CSIRO -
11/03/2019 -2024
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Macquarie University -
2012-2012
Visiting Scholar
UW Genome Sciences -
25/08/2020-present
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University
Achievements and Awards
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2008-2008
Outstanding Individual Award
IMBcom -
2008-2008
Best student paper award
IAPR Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics -
2013-2013
Early Career Researcher Award
Translational Cancer Research Conference -
2016-2020
Julius Career Award $105,000
CSIRO -
2017-2017
iAward (Big Data/ML Innovation of the Year & Industrial & Prim. Industries)
aiia -
2020-2020
The CSIRO Collaboration Medal (COVID-19 Vaccine Development Team, 2020)
CSIRO -
2020-2020
Professional Bioinformatician Award
Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society -
2020-2020
Data Hero
Amazon Web Services -
2020-2020
iAwards, Government Services, merit
aiia -
2021-2021
Brilliant Women in Digital Health
Telstra -
2022-2022
Women in AI (Innovation and first runner up of overall award)
Women in AI
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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2019-2019
International conference on Bioinformatics/ECCB
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2020-2020
Enactus World Cup 2020 and COVID-19 Unmasked panel (1000 attendees)
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2020-2020
Research Software Engineering conference NZ (Keynote)
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2021-2021
AWS global Healthcare & Life Science Day (1000 attendees)
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2023-2024
Statewide Clinical Genomics Network Steering Committee Member
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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)
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2018-2018
Keynote at AWS Summit Canberra 1000+ attendees
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2018-2018
Keynote at Open Data Science Conference, India, 300 attendees
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2018-2018
Keynote at International conference on Frontotemporal Dementia
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2018-2018
Plenary panel Alibaba Infinity Singapore
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2019-2019
Keynote at AWS Summit Innovation Day Mumbai
Grants
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2013-2015
NSW Cancer Institute “Link between Obesity and Cancer”
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2014-2015
OCE Cutting Edge Science Symposium "Precise genomic engineering"
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2015-2020
AI NHMRC TCR into Genomics "Preparing Australia for Genomic Medicine" $25M
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2015-2020
AI NHMRC Dementia Research Team Grant "Developing insight into the molecular origins of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" $6.4M
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2019-2019
CI MRFF Frontiers Grant Antimicrobial Resistance $1M
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2021-2021
NHMRC Partnership grand ($3.4M)
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2021-2024
2020 Genomics Health Futures Mission, PI, Prof Zornitza Stark, 2008820, A national large scale automated reanalysis program to increase rare disease diagnosis
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2022-2026
ARC Training Centre for Next-Gen Technologies in Biomedical Analysis ($4M) Prof Killugudi Swaminatha Iyer, Western Australia University
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2012-2013
AMATA conference committee
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2013-present
Member of Melbourne Genomics Alliance Advisory Committee
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2018-present
Inclusion and Diversity committee
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2012-present
59 reviews for 9 journals (Nature Methods, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acid Research, Trends in molecular medicine, Briefings in Bioinformatics)
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2017-present
Editor of The CRISPR Journal
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2015-present
Organizer of the Biannual Australian Genome Engineering Symposium
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2014-present
Australian Genomic Health Alliances
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2018-present
NSW Genomics IMT
Related links
- Group webpage
- Precision genome engineering symposium
- GeCKO platform for mosquito-borne viruses
- Open Data Science Conference Keynote
- CSIRO using serverless compute to analyse the human genome
- AWS This is my Architecture
- AWS Summit Keynote (30 min mark)
- CSIRO's CUNE uses artificial intelligence to find disease genes
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