Emilyn Costa Conceicao, post-doctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Biologist (Federal University of Pará—UFPA, Brazil, 2010); Master's in Parasite Biology (State University of Pará—UEPA and Evandro Chagas Institute—IEC, Brazil, 2012); and PhD in Microbiology (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Université Paris-Sud, France, 2018). Worked as a researcher at the Institute Foundation for the Development of the Amazon - FIDESA from 2012–2013, as a professor at UEPA and UFPA from 2012–2014, and as a lab technologist at the Brazilian Regional Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria (Bacteriology Lab—LABBAC) at the National Institute of Infectology, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (INI/Fiocruz) from 2019-2021. Her research interests include mycobacteriosis, tuberculosis, epidemiology, next-generation sequencing, science education, public health, and bioinformatics. Currently, she is a member of the TB Genomics research group, the TORCH consortium and a collaborator at the IEC Bacteriology Section.