News and Updates

2024.12.12

RRG celebrates the end of the quarter with a Holiday Party and gift exchange! 

We hope everyone has a great winter break!

2024.12.03

Nick gives a talk in MolES titled "Systems glycobiology through 

innovations in mass spectrometry and chemical biology"

2024.11.12

RRG's publication, Autonomous Dissociation-Type Selection 

for Glycoproteomics using Real-Time Library Search, has been 

accepted to JPR! Congrats Emmajay, Tim, Jacob, and Katie!

2024.11.08

Nick attends the annual Society of Glycobiology meeting, where he 

chairs a session on High-throughput Analytical Approaches for 

Characterizing Glycoconjugates and presents a talk on GlyCounter.

2024.11.04

Rotation 2 for first-year graduate students in the 

Department of Chemistry begins. Welcome rotators!

2024.10.30

Laura has her last day with RRG before she explores the 

west coast then heads back to Germany. We will miss you, Laura!

2024.10.15

Nick, Emmajay, and Kayla present talks at the Advances in 

Glycoproteomics Analysis Seminar sponsored by TFS.

2024.09.30

Rotation 1 for first-year graduate students in the 

Department of Chemistry begins. Welcome rotators!

2024.09.26

Nick gives a seminar at the University of Toronto's 

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

2024.09.25

The Autumn Quarter 2024 begins! 

Nick is teaching CHEM 321, Quantitative Analysis.

2024.09.20

RRG has a new preprint out on ChemRxiv! Revisiting the effect of trypsin

digestion buffers on artificial deamidation. Congrats, Emmajay and Tim!

2024.09.01

RRG was featured by the UW College of 

Arts & Sciences, check it out here!

2024.08.30

Daniel has his last day with RRG before heading back to Spain.

We will miss you, Daniel!

2024.08.29

RRG has a new preprint out! Improvements in glycoproteomics 

through architecture changes to the Orbitrap Tribrid MS platform

Congrats Tim, Emmajay, Ruby, Kayla, and Anna!

2024.08.26

RRG has a new preprint out! Autonomous Dissociation-Type 

Selection for Glycoproteomics using Real-Time Library Search

Congrats Emmajay, Tim, Jacob, and Katie!

2024.08.23

Vishnu has his last day in-person with RRG before beginning 

fall courses at UC Berkeley. Good luck this year, Vishnu!

2024.08.20

Meet Assistant Professor Nick Riley was 

featured in UW Chemistry Magazine, Autumn 2024 edition! 

2024.08.15

Adrian gives a final presentation for the SCROCCS program

and has his last day in the RRG. We enjoyed having you in the

group and will miss you, Adrian. Good luck with your fall

semester back at Pierce College!

2024.08.06

Nick is highlighted in the "Meet the Glycoscientist" section of

the Fall 2024 newsletter from the American Chemical Society

Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry & Chemical Glycobiology (CARB)

2024.07.23

Katie wins first place for her poster at Cascadia 

Proteomics Symposium 2024! Congrats, Katie!

2024.07.23

Jacob and Nick give talks, and Haley gives a flash talk at 

Cascadia Proteomics Symposium 2024!

2024.07.22

Daniel gives a talk and Katie gives a flash talk at Cascadia 

Proteomics Symposium 2024!

2024.07.22 thru 2024.07.23

RRG attends Cascadia Proteomics Symposium 2024 

at the Institute for Systems Biology in SLU.

2024.07.01

Anna receives the Member-at-Large Educational Reentry Award given by

the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry. Congrats, Anna!

2024.06.26

Daniel attends FASEB conference in Southbridge, MA and 

presents a talk on KRAS phosphorylation that drives cell invasiveness.

2024.06.20

Research Intern Vishnu Rajan joins us for an 

internship experience. Welcome, Vishnu!

2024.06.17

Undergraduate student Adrian Tarroza joins us for a summer internship

 through SCROCCS. Summer rotator Leah McDermott begins

 her rotation with RRG. Welcome, Adrian and Leah!

2024.06.11

Graduate student Daniel Gómez Zepeda joins us for a 

summer internship. Welcome, Daniel!

2024.06.11

Dr. Haley Schramm begins her first day as a postdoc in the group.

She finished her Ph.D. in Chemistry with Prof. Brian Clowers at Washington 

State University. Welcome, Haley! We are excited to have you here!

2024.06.07

The South Carolina Honors colleges publishes a piece titled

"Investigating the Interfaces" that highlights Nick as the SCHC

2023 Distinguished Young Honors Alumni awardee.

2024.06.06

Kayla, Jacob, Anna, and Katie present their posters in the

Glycoproteins II session at ASMS 2024. They also did a great job!

2024.06.05

Ruby, Emmajay, and Tim present their posters in the

Glycoproteins I session at ASMS 2024. They did a great job!

2024.06.04

Nick receives the ASMS Research Award during the

Tuesday Award ceremony at ASMS.

2024.06.03

Nick presents a talk in the Glycopeptides, Glycoproteins,

and Glycomics session at ASMS 2024 in Anaheim.

2024.06.01

The RRG travels to Anaheim for ASMS 2024 and makes

a Saturday pitstop at Disneyland before the conference begins!

2024.05.30

Nick presents at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute-Rezo Therapeutics

Mass Spectrometry Symposium on Emerging Proteomic Technologies

to Address Outstanding Biological Challenges.

2024.05.28

Nick is interviewed by LCGC International Magazine

to highlight his upcoming ASMS 2024 talk

2024.05.13

Our first publication as a group, a review titled "Instrumentation

at the Leading Edge of Proteomics", is published in Analytical Chemistry!

2024.05.07

Emmajay, Tim, and Nick present as the featured speakers

 at the PacMass Spring 2024 meeting.

2024.04.26

Nick visits the Complex Carhohydrate Research Center

and UGA's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

to present a seminar.

2024.04.19

Our review on Instrumentation at the Leading Edge of Proteomics

is accepted by Analytical Chemistry! Check out the pre-print

version at ChemRxiv. Congrats all!

2024.04.11 thru 2024.04.14

Nick attends the Scialog Conference on Automating

Chemical Laboratories as a Scialog Fellow.

2024.04.02

Collaborative work involving the Riley Research Group

and led by the Polyak group at Harvard Medical School

is accepted for publication in PNAS. Congrats all!

2024.03.25

The Spring Quarter 2024 begins! Nick is teaching

CHEM 428/528 Biomolecular Analysis and

CHEM 196 Chemistry Frontiers.

2024.03.22

ASMS announces that Nick is one of the

recipients of the 2024 Research Awards!

2024.03.10 thru 2024.03.13

Nick and Emmajay attend US HUPO 2024 in Portland, OR. Nick presents at the workshop

on Creativity in Scientific Communication during Early Career Researcher Mentoring Day 

and gives a talk in the Functional Characterization of the Proteome parallel session.

Emmajay does an awesome job presenting a lightning talk and her poster.

She even won an Honorable Mention in the lightning talk competition!

2024.03.01

The second 2024 UW Chemistry Graduate Student Open House kicks off!

We are excited to meet and interact with everyone.

2024.02.23 thru 2024.02.25

The Riley Research Group attends the 2024 Volcano Conference.

Tim and Emmajay give great talks, and we enjoy meeting other UW

and PNW chemical biologists!

2024.02.16

The first 2024 UW Chemistry Graduate Student Open House kicks off!

We are looking forward to meeting and interacting with everyone.

2024.01.03

The Winter Quarter 2024 begins! Nick is teaching

CHEM 321, Quantitative Analysis.

2024.01.02

Nick joins as a new provisional faculty member of UW's

Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Graduate Program!

2023.12.22

We welcome new first-year graduate students Anna Duboff, Katie Kothlow,

Kayla Markuson, Jacob Russell, and Ruby Zhang to the group.

We are excited to have each of you join the group

and look forward to the fun science ahead!

2023.12.01

Nick joins as a new member of UW's

Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute (MolES)

2023.11.17

The first pre-print from the Riley Research Group, "Instrumentation

at the leading edge of proteomics" goes live on ChemRxiv!

2023.11.06

Nick presents a poster at the annual Society for Glycobiology meeting.

2023.11.03

Nick joins as a new participating faculty member in the Cancer Consortium 

between UW, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and Seattle Children's.

2023.11.01

Nick officially joins UW's Biological Physics, Structure, and Design (BPSD)

Program as a new participating faculty member.

2023.10.27

Nick presents a faculty lunch seminar to UW's Department of Biochemistry.

2023.10.19

Nick visits New England BioLabs to present a seminar. It was a

great day full of fun science conversations and meeting new people.

2023.10.14

Nick is recognized with the South Carolina Honors College

2023 Young Alumni Award.

2023.10.11

Nick presents a seminar in UW's Department of Genome Sciences. 

2023.10.10

Dr. Tim S. Veth begins his first day as a postdoc in the group.

He finished his Ph.D. with Profs. Maarten Altelaar and Albert Heck at Utrecht

University in the Netherlands. Welcome, Tim! We are excited to have you here!

2023.09.29

Nick presents at the Translational Glycomics Symposium in Milwaukee, WI

as part of the section featuring Rising Stars in Glycoscience.

2023.09.28

Emmajay is awarded a prestigious WRF Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Congratulations, Emmajay! We are so proud of you!

2023.09.28

Chemistry World publishes an editorial from Nick about being in the

Bertozzi lab in October 2022 for the Nobel Prize Announcement.

2023.09.25

Nick is selected as a Scialog Fellow for the Automating

Chemical Laboratories in the Scialog series.

2023.09.19 and 2023.09.20

Nick travels to Busan, South Korea to present a poster and a lunch seminar at the

22nd HUPO World Congress, where he also received the 2023 HUPO Rising Star Award.

2023.09.16

Emmajay interviews for the Washington Reseach Foundation (WRF)

Postdoctoral Fellowship. Good luck, Emmajay! We are routing for you!

2023.09.08

Dr. Emmajay Sutherland begins her first day as a postdoc in the group.

She finished her Ph.D. in Biochemistry with Prof. Clarissa Czekster at St. Andrews University

in Scotland. Welcome, Emmajay! We are excited to have you here!

2023.09.01

The Riley Research Group officially opens its doors!

2023.03.03

The second 2023 UW Chemistry Graduate Student Open House kicks off!

We are excited to meet and interact with everyone.

2023.02.17

The first 2023 UW Chemistry Graduate Student Open House kicks off!

We are looking forward to meeting and interacting with everyone.

The lab will open in 2023!

More details coming soon.