Tracey M. Gloster

Tracey Maureen Gloster is a chemist at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are in structural biology, chemical biology, glycobiology and carbohydrate processing enzymes. and then moved to University of York where she was awarded a PhD in chemistry in 2005 for research supervised by Gideon Davies.

Career and research In her early career she was funded by the Wellcome Trust, initially with a Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellowship held between 2008 and 2011 at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where she worked with David Vocadlo, and then a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development fellowship in 2012 when she joined the University of St Andrews, Scotland. she holds the position of Reader.

Publications Gloster is the author or co-author of over 50 scientific publications. Exploitation of carbohydrate processing enzymes in biocatalysis Revealing the mechanism for covalent inhibition of glycoside hydrolases by carbasugars at an atomic level The enzymatic degradation of heparan sulfate Advances in understanding glycosyltransferases from a structural perspective Developing inhibitors of glycan processing enzymes as tools for enabling glycobiology

Awards and honours Gloster was awarded the Biochemical Society early career research award in 2012, the L’Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowship For Women In Science Fellowship in 2013 She serves as treasurer of the Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Interest Group. She chairs one of the review panels that judge requests to use the Diamond Light Source.

She is a member of the Young Academy of Scotland.