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Johannes Loubser

Dr Hanno Loubser is a molecular biologist with special interest in biotechnology, genetics, microbiology and bioinformatics. Since 2020, he is a postdoctoral researcher with the TB Genomics research group, where he is involved in next-generation sequencing analysis of MTBC. His projects of interest include the transmission dynamics of TB contacts, unknown variants of ethionamide resistance, within-host microevolution of MDR-TB, the role of DNA methylation in drug resistance, optimizing nanopore sequencing for TB diagnostics, standardization of bioinformatic pipelines for MTBC epidemiology. He is also very passionate about capacity building and teaching.​