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Kristala Jones Prather

Joseph R. Mares (1924) Career Development Assistant Professor
kristala jones prather

Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 66-458
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Phone: 617.253.1950
Fax: 617.252.1651
Email: kljp@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994

Honors and Awards
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, 2004
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1998
UNCF-Merck Science Initiative Graduate Fellowship, 1996
NOBCChE/DuPont Graduate Fellowship Award, 1996
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, 1994
Robert T. Haslam Cup for professional promise in chemical engineering, MIT, 1994
Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT, 1994
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Distinguished Fellow, 1994

Research Interests
_ Metabolic Engineering
_ Biochemical Engineering
_ Bioprocess Engineering
_ Synthetic Biology

Current Research
Selected Recent Publications