Rate My Professor Alicia Oshlack

Professor Alicia Oshlack is Head of the Computational Biology Program and group leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with affiliations to the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Melbourne, completed in 2003, after which she transitioned to bioinformatics, applying her computational expertise to medical genomics. Oshlack has over 20 years of experience at the forefront of bioinformatics research, specializing in transcriptional analysis, single-cell RNA sequencing, methylation analysis, and genomic approaches to detect cancer-causing mutations. Her work focuses on innovative statistical and computational methods to analyze high-throughput sequencing data, enabling insights into tumor evolution, cell communication, and personalized cancer treatments. She leads the development of more than a dozen open-source software packages and collaborates on cutting-edge projects investigating disease and development through genome-wide technologies.