Annelize Jonker is a Veterinary Clinical Bacteriologist at Ampath Veterinary Laboratories since 2024. She graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1994 with a BVSc degree. She started her career as a certifying state veterinarian at an ostrich export abattoir in Oudtshoorn. In 2003 she accepted a post as state veterinarian at the Western Cape Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Here she supervised the Diagnostic bacteriology and Food Safety monitoring sections. In 2010 she received an MSc degree from the University of Pretoria. In 2015 she accepted a post at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases where she lectured infectious bacterial diseases to undergraduate veterinary and veterinary nursing students. She also supervised and provided technical input in the activities at the DVTD diagnostic bacteriology laboratory. Her research interests were diagnostic bacteriology, food safety monitoring bacteriology, intracellular bacteria (particularly Chlamydiales) and antimicrobial resistance. In 2024 she graduated with a PHD from the University of Pretoria.