Tracey Mincer
2001 Research Fellow
Bio
One of the recipients of the Khaled bin Sultan Graduate Fellowship Award from 2001-2004 was Tracy J. Mincer, a Ph.D. student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California. The fellowship has provided support to Tracy to conduct investigations into the potential use of unique marine actinomycetes as a new biomedical resource. Tracy received a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry/ Biochemistry from the University of San Diego in 1995, and went on to work as a staff researcher at several laboratories studying plasmid biology and marine bacteria. He has published in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, and Plasmid.