Alicia Oshlack

Alicia Yinema Kate Nungarai Oshlack[3][2][5] is an Australian bioinformatician and is Co-Head of Computational Biology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

[21] Oshlack's methodology has enabled gene expression levels between humans and other primates to be analysed in an unbiased manner.

[23] For this work Alicia Oshlack was awarded the Ruth Gani Medal for Human Genetics from the Australian Academy of Science in 2011.

[24] Oshlack has developed a software pipeline for performing clinical grade analysis of DNA sequencing data for diagnostic purposes.

[26] Oshlack's views on work life balance in science[27] and communicating what bioinformaticians do to a general audience at parties[28] have been published.