Alison Wendlandt is an American chemist who is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[2] Her graduate research initially considered chemical biology: how certain molecules interact human health.
[3] She moved to Wisconsin for her doctoral studies, where she worked alongside Shannon Stahl on the development of catalysts that mediate amine oxidation.
Wendlandt used an enzyme from Streptomyces fradiae to drive the conversion of rare sugar isomers.
[5] This simple one-site reaction allowed for the conversion of D-Glucose to D-allose (a potential candidate for low-calorie sweeteners) with a 40% yield.