News and Updates

Spring Quarter 2024


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.


Winter Quarter 2024

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!

Autumn Quarter 2023

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!

Prior to Autumn Quarter 2023

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.