Nabila Ismail

Nabila Ismail joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University as a post-doctoral fellow early in 2019. Her research focuses on culture-free or early detection of TB infection and resistance profile information using whole genome sequencing technologies. Nabila achieved all three of her BSc, BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Biochemistry cum laude from the University of Pretoria. Following this, she worked as a research assistant at the NICD Centre for Tuberculosis (a WHO supranational laboratory) where she was actively involved in whole genome sequencing of isolates received from the National Drug Resistance Survey. During this time, she also assisted with the standardization of bedaquiline MIC testing on solid media. She then pursued her PhD in Medical Microbiology through the University of Pretoria and in association with the NICD Centre for Tuberculosis. Her doctoral thesis focuses the use of whole genome sequencing on in vitro generated bedaquiline, clofazimine and linezolid resistant mutants to uncover the genetic basis of resistance.