The Department of Chemistry is happy to welcome Dr. Stephanie Rankin-Turner as an assistant professor in the upcoming academic year. Stephanie received her Ph.D. from Loughborough University in the UK, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. James Reynolds developing ambient ionization mass spectrometry techniques for the analysis of biological materials. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Conor McMeniman in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, studying the chemical basis of mosquito attraction to humans and the effects of Plasmodium falciparum infection on the human volatilome. At Pitt, the Rankin-Turner lab will focus on the use of ambient ionization mass spectrometry and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to study the human volatilome, with a particular emphasis on how the volatilome changes in response to factors such as disease, infection and environmental exposure.
Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/rankinturnerlab
Email: srankin@pitt.edu