Latest News
2025.09.29
Rotation 1 for first-year graduate students in the
Department of Chemistry begins. Welcome rotators!
2025.09.24
The Autumn Quarter 2024 begins!
Nick is teaching CHEM 321, Quantitative Analysis.
2025.09.23
Our pre-print titled Profiling glycoproteins enriched
by surface-functionalized nanoparticles is now available
on ChemRxiv. Thanks for our collaborators at Seer for
their help with this, and congrats to first author Emmajay
and co-authors Tim, Kayla, and Anna!
2025.09.18
A new pre-print from an RRG collaborative effort led by the Edgar Lab
at the University of Toronto is available on bioRxiv, titled "Sialoglycans on
human T cells attenuate death programs executed through the Fas pathway".
Congrats to all authors, including RRG members Tim and Emmajay
as contributing authors, for their efforts!
2025.09.17
Nick visits Minnesota State University, Mankato as the speaker for the
35th Leonard A. Ford Lectureship hosted by the Department of
Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Geology. Nick presented two talks,
a technical talk titled "Tipping the Scales:
How Mass Spectrometry Provides Insights into Health and Disease"
and a general audience talk titled
"The Biological Language Embedded in your Cells' Sugar Coating”.
2025.09.07 thru 2025.09.10
Nick is an invited speaker at the CECAM Workshop titled The Dual Nature of Glycans
in Protein-Protein Interactions: Bridging Computational and Experimental Insights
at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, where he presents on efforts
across the RRG to improve data analysis and integration with structural
characterization of glycoproteins.
2025.08.26 thru 2025.09.17
Ruby visits the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research
for training as part of her Global Innovation Fund
Tier 1 Award.
2025.08.22
Katie learns she is selected for UW's Molecular Biophysics
Training Program (MBTP). Congratulations Katie!
2025.08.18 thru 2025.08.21
Nick attends the ACS 2025 Fall Meeting in Washington DC,
where he presents at C&EN's Talented 12 Symposium,
at the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award Symposium
to accept the 2025 Arthur F. Findeis Award for a Young Analytical Chemist,
and at the Division of Analytical Chemistry's Rising Star Symposium.
2025.08.07
Jacob presents a poster at Eli Lilly's Graduate Student
Innovators in Analytical Chemistry Symposium in Indianapolis.
Congratulations on the invitation to attend and present, Jacob!
2025.08.06
The RRG enjoys a night out a T-Mobile Park
watching the Seattle Mariners get a win!
2025.07.23
Tim is featured in an article by IonOpticks that
highlights his work on glycoproteomics in the RRG!
Here Tim closes with, "I invite all the researchers to enter the glycoproteomics field."
Check out the full article to learn more about Tim and his work:
Thousands of forms, one protein:
how Dr. Tim Veth is deciphering the complex language of Glycans
2025.07.17 thru 2025.07.18
RRG members attend the 2025 Cascadia Proteomics Symposium
in Seattle, where Katie and Haley present full talks and Emmajay
presents a lightning talk and poster. Emmajay receives
a poster prize for her work! And RRG members
enjoyed a Seattle Mariners game as part of the meeting.
2025.07.15
Incoming graduate student Vanessa Encinas starts
here summer rotation in the Riley Research Group.
Welcome Vanessa!
2025.07.07 thru 2025.07.11
Nick lectures on indexed retention time and delivers
the Keynote presentation at the
2025 Skyline Targeted Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Course
hosted in Seattle at UW.
2025.07.01 thru 2025.07.03
Nick attends the Beilstein Glyco-Bioinformatics Symposium,
which he helped co-organize, and he presents a talk
and demos for GlyCounter and IPSA 2.0.
2025.06.27
Nick presents a seminar at the Hannover Medical
School (MHH) Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry,
where former group member Laura is studying!
2025.06.24
Former group member and current collaborator Daniel Gomez Zepeda
from Neus Agell's group at the University of Barcelona wins
the FEBS Letters Best Poster Award for his collaborative work with the RRG
while presenting at the Small G Proteins in Cellular Signalling and Disease
Conference in Manchester, UK, organized by the Biochemical Society.
Congratulations Daniel!
2025.06.23
Undergraduate Chinmayee Deshpande joins the
Riley Research Group as a recipient of the
Department of Chemistry Summer Research Award!
2025.06.16 thru 2025.06.20
Nick attends the UW Faculty Field Tour
to learn more about the state of Washington.
2025.06.06
Kayla is named a recipient of a 2025 Quantitative Proteomics
Research Grant from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Congratulations Kayla!
2025.06.05
Vishnu is named a winner for the ASMS 2025
Undergraduate Poster Competition.
Congratulations Vishnu!
2025.06.05
Nick presents a talk in the Fundamentals: Ion Activation
and Dissociation session, and Haley presents a poster in the
Fundamentals: Ion Activation/Dissociation session at ASMS 2025.
2025.06.03
Katie, Tim, and Vishnu present their posters in the
Glycoproteins II session at ASMS 2025.
2025.06.02
Kayla, Jacob, Ruby, Emmajay, and Anna present their posters in the
Glycoproteins I session at ASMS 2025.
2025.06.01
Our updated version of the Interactive Peptide
Spectra Annotator (IPSA 2.0), led by Vishnu and Tim,
is released! Use it to annotate and inspect your glycopeptide
identifications (and other proteomics data!) by accessing it here.
More documentation and a pre-print coming soon.
2025.06.01
The RRG travels to Baltimore for ASMS 2025
and enjoys a crab dinner and Orioles baseball game
before the conference begins! Also, Vishnu presents in the
ASMS Undergraduate Poster Competition!
2025.05.29
RRG's manuscript, Improvements in Glycoproteomics through
Architecture Changes to the Orbitrap Tribrid MS Platform, has been
accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry!
Congrats co-first authors Tim, Emmajay and
contributing authors Kayla, Ruby, and Anna!
2025.05.23
Nick is announced as a member of the
Chemical and Engineering (C&EN) News Talented12 Class of 2025!
2025.05.09
RRG's spotlight article, Accelerating the stride toward functional
glycoproteomics, has been accepted for publication in Trends
in Biochemical Sciences! Congrats Tim!
2025.04.30
Kayla is recognized with the UW Chemistry Department's
2025 Excellence in Graduate Leadership and Service Award
and a 2024 Outstanding TA Award. Congrats Kayla!
2025.04.14
Nick is announced as a member of the
2025 Class of Searle Scholars!
See News and Updates for more!