Margaretha de Vos
Margaretha joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University in 2007 to pursue a BSc Honours degree, where she also completed her MSc degree in 2009 and graduated with a PhD in Molecular Biology in 2013. Her PhD research focused on the analysis of the whole genomes of closely related M. tuberculosis isolates to identify mechanisms regulating the intra cellular concentration of rifampicin in M. tuberculosis. Margaretha is currently a post-doctoral fellow based at Stellenbosch University and a member of the Centre for Whole Genome Sequencing of MTB. Her research focuses on the use of whole genome sequencing to study the genomic evolution of M. tuberculosis during treatment and the acquisition of drug resistance with the aim to identify molecular markers and other risk factors for the prediction of treatment failure. Her other research interests include the development and validation of novel diagnostics for the identification of drug resistant TB.