Musah Lab Attends PITTCON 2026

With Chip at the JEOL booth

Benedetta, Alexa, Niara, Sarah, Dr. Dane, and Dr. Musah traveled to San Antonio, TX to attend PITTCON 2026 Conference and Expo that occurred March 7-11.  Benni gave an oral presentation on her research “Insights on the Interpretation of the DART Mass Spectra of Organosulfur Compounds.” Alexa had two oral presentations “The Case of the Casings: Application of Field Desorption-Mass Spectrometry for Species Identification of Blow Fly Puparial Casings for Postmortem Interval Determination” and “A Grave Attraction: Utilizing Mass Spectrometry to Reveal the Chemical Cues Driving Aspects of Insect Colonization Behavior on Decomposing Remains.” Niara also gave an oral presentation “Burnin’ Up: Assessing the Temperature Dependent Pyrolysis Product Profile of Δ9-THC.” As for Sarah, this was her first time attending a national meeting with the Musah Group. She presented a poster titled “Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My: Rapid Identification of Animal Species Blood Using Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry.” Professor Musah gave two oral presentations “The Interconversion of Major Cannabis Cannabinoids Under Pyrolysis Conditions: Implications for Drug Testing and Analysis” and “Characterization of CBD Pyrolysis Products by GC x GC – HRMS.” We had an extremely full schedule!