My name is Mushal Allam, I am a senior bioinformatics scientist (PhD) at the Sequencing Core Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.

I have BSc (Hons) in Biology, MSc in Molecular Biology and PhD in Bioinformatics.

My research interests focus on applications of genomics and bioinformatics in microbial diversity, evolution, pathogenesis, virulence and antimicrobial resistance.