B.S. Grove City College
sma75@pitt.edu

Shelby graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Grove City College where she participated in undergraduate research in inorganic chemistry, contributing to the synthesis of biological mimics of the [Fe-Fe] hydrogenase active site.  Following graduation, she spent two years as a Research Staff Scientist in the Wipf group at the University of Pittsburgh where she worked on several medicinal chemistry projects within the Chemical Diversity Center.  Upon attending graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, she joined the Floreancig Group where she has spent her graduate career solving challenging stereochemical and mechanistic problems.   In her time in the group, she has expanded the Re2O7 catalyzed cascade reactions to include a kinetically controlled bimolecular fragment coupling step, providing access to stereochemically complex 2,6-trans tetrahydropyran rings.  Outside the lab, Shelby likes to go camping, read, enjoy Pittsburgh’s live music venues and craft beer scene, and explore the city by bike.