Seipati P. Tenyane
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Biography
Seipati P. Tenyane is a PhD student and has her interest in microbial population dynamics and the impact of these microbes on the environment in which they are found. She has expertise in the broader context of molecular microbiology, microbial ecology, evolutionary biology and bioinformatics. Seipati has successfully mapped and annotated the genome of Lactobacillus plantarum IWBT B063. In addition to that, she has helped build a Lb. plantarum gene ontology database which will be useful in determining the molecular responses of these bacteria to various stresses or environments.