Andries van Tonder, PhD profile page

Dr. Andries van Tonder is a research associate with an interest in pathogen genomics, in particular Mycobacterium bovis and non-tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM). He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in biology and a MRes in bioinformatics from the University of York in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Following three years working as a genome analyst at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, he moved to the University of Oxford as a research assistant in the Brueggemann lab in the Department of Zoology. This position transitioned into a DPhil in clinical medicine focusing on pneumococcal genomics and evolution. Following his graduation in 2017, he took up a post as a postdoctoral fellow in the Parkhill group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, working on Mycobacterium bovis transmission dynamics and evolution, and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis patients. In June 2019, the Parkhill group moved to the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where he is currently based. To date, he is an author on 46 peer-reviewed articles and has an h-index of 27.