Alicia Oshlack is an NHMRC career development fellow and is the Head of Bioinformatics at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute where she leads a team of 10 students, post-docs and research assistants. Oshlack is best known for her body of work developing methods for the analysis transcriptome data. Other areas of research include epigenetics using ChIP-seq and methylation array data and also DNA mutation detection for clinical genomics data using next generation sequencing. Alicia Oshlack is an editorial board member of Genome Biology and won the Australian Academy of Science Ruth Gani Medal for human genetics in 2011. Oshlack is passionate about genomics and the important role that bioinformatics plays in this exciting field.