Melanie Grobbelaar
Melanie is interested in the transcriptome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, especially the effect of different rpoB mutations on the transcriptomic map of M. tuberculosis using qPCR and RNA-seq. She started her MSc in 2010 at the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and the Centre for Tuberculosis Research in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at Stellenbosch University. Her PhD centred around the transcriptomic effect of rifampicin on different mono-resistant isolates.