Ingrid Whittle
Clinical science
Hutman Diagnostics
Swaziland
Biography
Ingrid is a microbiologist interested in the lives of microorganism in various habitats. She obtained her PhD in 1999 from the University of Queensland (Australia) working on the taxonomy and ecology of acetic acid bacteria in the sugarcane leaf sheath microenvironment. From 2003-2015, Ingrid worked at the Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck (Austria) on the development and application of microarrays to detect microorganisms in the compost and anaerobic digestion environments.
Research Interest
Clinical science