Melanie Bahlo

{{Infobox scientist | name = Professor Melanie Bahlo | marriage = 2008 | position = Associate Professor and Statistical Genetics Lab head, Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Parkville, VIC | nationality = Australian/German | birth_place = Germany | high_school = Albury High School | higher Education= [[BSc Hons and PhD in population genetics from Monash University ]] | achievements = }}

Melanie Bahlo FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist and bioinformatician.

Biography

Bahlo attended secondary school at Albury High School in Albury, Australia.[1] She received her PhD in population genetics from Monash University in 1998.[2] Bahlo's research interests include statistics, genetics, bioinformatics, and population genetics. Her work has "led to the discovery of new genes involved in genetic diseases such as deafness and epilepsy".[2] As of 2009 she is the Laboratory head in the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, where her work has focused on "high throughput sequencing data of human and non-human organisms".[3][4]

Bahlo's research projects have included:

  • In-silico gene prioritisation using brain specific gene expression data
  • Analysis methods for cell-free DNA for the detection of foetal anomalies and transplant rejection
  • Discovery of expanded repeats with whole genome sequencing data
  • Identification of identity by descent relationships with DNA data[5]

Bahlo and colleagues (Dr. Mark Bennett and Dr. Haloom Rafehi) from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and their international consortium have contributed to a decades-long global effort that revealed two new gene mutations that cause a rare type of epilepsy.[6]

Awards

Grants
  • 2014-2018 Program Grant “Computational and statistical bioinformatics for medical ‘omics’”, National Health and Medical Research Council[2]
  • 2008-2012 Program Grant “Genetic and Bioinformatic Analysis of Complex Human Diseases”, National Health and Medical Research Council

Service to the community
  • 2014 Panel Member, Marsden Fund New Zealand
  • 2014 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Lecture: “Using statistics to find the causes of inherited diseases”[8]
  • 2014 Invited attendee “Translation of Omics-Based Discoveries into Clinical Research and Practice”, Workshop, National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2014 Gene Technology Access Centre Afternoon Tea with Victorian Teachers
  • 2014 Gene Technology Access Centre Year 9 Students “Meet the scientists”[9]

Memberships

References
  1. "About Melanie Bahlo". Facebook. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. "Dr Melanie Bahlo". Victorian Centre for Biostatistics. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. "2009 awardees: Career awards". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  4. "Prof Melanie Bahlo". Victorian Infection & Innumity Network. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. "Professor Melanie Bahlo: Projects". Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  6. "New genetic cause of epilepsy found". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  7. "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  8. "Anzaas Seminar; Dr Melanie Bahlo "Using Statistics To Find The Causes Of Inherited Diseases"". ANZAAS. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  9. "Professor Melanie Bahlo: Achievements". Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Retrieved 16 August 2016.


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