Tracey Tran

Tracey Tran has work experience as a Synthetic Biologist at Touchlight since April 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Autolus Ltd. as a Research Associate from April 2019 to March 2021. In this role, they focused on generating plasmid constructs for CAR-T therapy and utilized lab techniques such as Golden gate and Gibson assembly. Tracey also gained experience in using automated gene synthesis platform BioXp and automated fluid handler (Gilson PIPETMAX). Before joining Autolus Ltd., Tracey served as an MRes research student at UCL from January 2018 to September 2018. During this time, their project focused on Bacterial Microcompartments (BMC) as a new antimicrobial target, where they conducted research on BMC shell proteins and their disruption as an antimicrobial mechanism. Tracey has experience in various molecular biology techniques such as molecular cloning, PCR, mutagenesis, and agarose gel electrophoresis, as well as biochemistry techniques including Sonication, Size-exclusion chromatography, protein expression, protein purification, buffer exchange, and SDS-PAGE.

Tracey Tran attended the University of Westminster from 2014 to 2017, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Biochemistry. Tracey later pursued a Master of Research (MRes) degree in Synthetic Biology at UCL from 2017 to 2018.