Teaching Old Bacteria New Tricks with Kristala Jones Prather

About The Speaker

Kristala Jones Prather is the Department Executive Officer of MIT Chemical Engineering with research interests in metabolic engineering, biochemical engineering, synthetic biology and bioprocess engineering. Using the cell’s “microbial chemical factory", Professor Kristala Prather is engineering microbes to produce chemical compounds to focus on three key areas:

• Biomedical & biotechnology
• Energy
• Environment and sustainability