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Tracey L. Thaler

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Building: Petit IBB
Office: 3428
Phone: 404.385.3089
Fax: 404.894.2291
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Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
311 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100

Tracey L. Thaler


Education

  • B.S. Zoology, University of South Florida, 1998

  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, 1999

  • M.S. Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002


  • Research Interests

  • Undergraduate Research Topic: “Bacterial Adherence and Biofilm Formation on Vivathane?”

  • Evolution of a/b-Barrel Enzymes: Directed Evolution for Improvement of N-acetylamino acid Racemase (NAAR) Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Mandelate Racemase as a Template Evolution of Half Barrels into Full Barrels


Publications & Presentations

  1. Bommarius, Andreas S., Murphy, Tracey L., Gibbs, Phillip R. “Biocatalyst Design with N-acetyl Amino Acid Racemase.” Presentation, AIChE Annual Meeting 2001.

  2. Murphy, Tracey L., Bommarius, Andreas S. “Development of a Novel Biocatalyst: Directed Evolution of N-acylamino Acid Racemase.” Suddath Symposium 2002.

  3. Murphy, Tracey L., Bommarius, Andreas S. “Development of a Novel Biocatalyst: Directed Evolution of N-acylamino Acid Racemase.” Georgia Life Sciences Summit 2002.

  4. Bommarius, Andreas S., Gibbs, Phillip R., Murphy, Tracey L., Wymer, Nathan J. “Biocatalyst Design with N-acetyl Amino Acid Racemase.” Presentation, AIChE Annual Meeting 2002.