Kristala Jones Prather is an American professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[2][3] She earned a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994,[4] and a Ph.D at University of California, Berkeley, in 1999.
[8] In 2009, her team created glucaric acid from Escherichia coli that contained enzymes from three organisms.
[9] In 2016, she was an investigator in the multi-institutional Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, as well as leader of the Prather lab.
[2] In 2015, Prather served on the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars SynBio Project.