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Third Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
3 November - 9 November 2023

Recorded sessions

  • Dr Zané Lombard - Speaker

    Advancing discovery for developmental disorders - expanded analysis of the DDD-Africa resource (Contact PI)

    Dr Lombard obtained her PhD in Human Genetics in 2008, with her PhD research focusing on a bioinformatics-driven approach to disease-gene discovery. She is currently a principal medical scientist and the team lead of the Research & Development group in the Division of Human Genetics, where the focus is on the implementation of next-generation technology for genetic diagnostics. Before this she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Lombard’s research interests include understanding the role that the human genome plays in conveying risk to complex diseases.