Sydney Povilaitis
Dr. Sydney C. Povilaitis graduated from St. Olaf College with a BA in Chemistry and completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin where she developed technologies for bacterial identification and investigated peptide-membrane interactions under the guidance of Professors Livia S. Eberlin and Lauren J. Webb. In 2023, she joined the Chemistry program at 鶹ƵAPK as an assistant professor of analytical chemistry. Her current research interests include developing mass spectrometry methods for measuring the lipidomic adaptation of yeast to environmental stress and methods for measuring secondary metabolites of anesthetics. Courses that Dr. Povilaitis regularly teaches include Instrumental Methods, Analytical Chemistry, and General Chemistry Lab.