Anzaan Dippenaar
Anzaan joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University in 2011 when she started her PhD in Molecular Biology with a special focus on biological characteristics of the Latin-American Mediterranean strains of M. tuberculosis. Before moving to Cape Town, she studied at North-West University in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa, where she completed her BSc (Microbiology and Biochemistry), BSc (Hons, Biochemistry) and MSc in Biochemistry.
Anzaan is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University and is a member of the Centre of Whole Genome Sequencing. She is interested in using whole genome sequencing approaches to investigate the microevolution of M.tuberculosis during transmission, the mycobacterial genomics of treatment response during tuberculosis disease, and to explore the genomic characteristics of various mycobacterial strains causing tuberculosis in a variety of animal host species.