Tanja Narancic

I am an Assistant Professor at School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. My research focuses on elucidating the metabolism of bacteria, and using this knowledge and synthetic biology tools to exploit these bacteria to make high value products.
I graduated with PhD (2012) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. This was followed by postdoctoral research at Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia, where I developed a biocatalyst based on recombinant whole cells for Michael-type formation of C-C bonds and synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant compounds.
In 2013 I moved to the University College Dublin where I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the direction of Prof Kevin O'Connor. I investigated metabolic pathways of microorganisms using proteomics, metabolomics, enzymatic assays and synthetic biology tools as a part of FP7 and H2020 projects. In 2019 I joined Bioeconomy Research Centre BiOrbic as a Research Fellow. I am currently an academic collaborator in BiOrbic, where I coordinate several research projects among BiOrbic PIs, PostDocs, PhD students, as well as designing projects proposed by industrial partners.

Keywords: microbiology, biochemistry, synthetic and systems biology, protein engineering and purification, enzymology, biocatalysis, antimicrobials.