Tracy Palmer

Tracy Palmer
Tracy Palmer at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born(1967-05-08)8 May 1967
Sheffield, England
EducationUniversity of Birmingham (BSc, PhD)
Spouses
  • Michael St John
    (m. 1993; div. 2000)
  • (m. 2000)
ChildrenJames Sargent (b. 2000), Jack Sargent (b. 2002)
AwardsEMBO Member (2017)
Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1996)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsNewcastle University
University of Dundee
University of East Anglia
John Innes Centre
ThesisThe kinetics of the proton-translocating transhydrogenase from photosynthetic bacteria (1992)
Doctoral advisorJ. Baz Jackson

Tracy Palmer is a British microbiologist who is a professor of microbiology in the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University in Tyne & Wear, England. She is known for her work on the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway.