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Lesley Rogers is an Australian neurobiologist and is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. She is best known for her work developing methods for the analysis of transcriptome data as a measure of gene expression. She has characterized the role of gene expression in human evolution by comparisons of humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and rhesus macaques, and works collaboratively in data analysis to improve the use of clinical sequencing of RNA samples by RNAseq for human disease diagnosis.

Gene Expression Analysis
Alicia Oshlack's work has focused on methods for the analysis of genome expression, notably computational and statistical analysis of transcriptome data. This includes work on background correction methods for two-colour microarrays, normalisation of microarray data , comparative analysis of RNAseq data and normalisation of methylation patterns in human DNA beadchip data

Human Evolution
Her methodology work has enabled gene expression levels between humans and other primates to be analysed in an unbiased manner. Her work comparing gene expression levels from liver tissues of five individuals from four different primate species: humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and rhesus macaques, identified the rapid evolution of human transcription factors in humans. Further related work looked at the expression level changes and pathways for these factor across multiple human tissues. For this work Oshlack was awarded the Ruth Gani Medal for Human Genetics from the Australian Academy of Science in 2011.

Clinical Gene Expression Analysis
Dr Oshlack has developed a software pipeline for performing clinical grade analysis of DNA sequencing data for diagnostic purposes. These tools are currently being used for the analysis of sequencing data in the diagnosis of cardiomyopathies at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Service. She has also developed tools for the analysis of tumour data, specifically detecting mutations caused by rearrangement of the tumour genome resulting in oncogenic fusion genes

Early Life and Education
Alicia Oshlack was born in Roleystone, Perth in 1975. She graduated dux from Warrnambool College Victoria, Australia in 1993. She complete a Bachelor of Science (Hons) (1994-98) from the University of Melbourne, majoring in physics. Dr Oshlack remained at the University of Melbourne for her PhD studies in astrophysics, which she completed on the topic of the central structure of radio quasars (1999-2003).

Career Posts
Dr Oshlack made a career transition to apply her mathematics to genetics after moving to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute where she worked as a research officer (2003-07) and then senior research officer (2007-11) in the Bioinformatics Division. Dr Oshlack moved to the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne in 2011 to take up the post of Head of Bioinformatics. She was appointment as the co-chair of the Genomics and Bioinformatics advisory group for The Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance in 2013. She was also appointed to the organising committee of Beyond the Genome in 2013.

Life Balance and Science Communication
Dr Oslack's views on work life balance in science and communicating what scientists do to a general audience have been published.