@emmajays
WRF Postdoctoral Fellow || Riley Research Group || University of Washington || Studying the glycoproteome with mass spectrometry || Scottish living in Seattle ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโ๏ธ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐๐ท
This article published on International Day of Women and Girls in Science highlights that papers authored by women spend longer under peer review.
Being aware of this means we can begin to fix it and create an equal system for all ๐
www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Today, on the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we recognize the women in the GlycoNet network whose research is deepening our understanding of glycomics and enabling new approaches across health and biotechnology.
#WomenInScience #GlycoNet #Glycoscience #WomenInSTEM #STEM
๐ข Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!
๐๏ธ Tuesday, February 17, 2026 | 10 AM ET
๐๏ธDr. Lance Wells & Dr. Rene Ranzinger
๐๏ธFor details visit: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All... or take a look at the flyer below!
#GlyGen #glycotime #researchwebinar #researchtools
2025 ended with this paper being accepted by Analytical Chemistry! ๐
Please check out our article in its new home and learn how these multinanoparticle protein coronas grant us a deeper insight into the glycoproteome of different biofluids:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Hi Jochen! Using Glycounter (from RRG), we can classify MS/MS scans as 'likely glyco' from the presence of >8 oxonium ions. Here, NP+MAX yields around 60% of MS/MS scans with oxonium ions whereas neat plasma (NP0) has 4%.
Can nanoparticles help us probe the glycoproteome?
The new pre-print from @riley-research.bsky.social seeks to answer this question using the Proteograph technology from Seer Inc.
Check out this lovely study on glycoproteins NP-enriched from biofluids here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
@riley-research.bsky.social had a great time catching up with local research at the Cascadia Proteomics Symposium last week. The lineup featured talks from Katie Kothlow and Haley Schramm, and a lightning talk/poster from @emmajays.bsky.social
Congrats to Emmajay for her 2nd-place poster award too!
It was great to meet you yesterday! ๐ It was nice, if unexpected, to hear a friendly familiar accent
Had an amazing time at the Glycobiology Gordon Research Seminar and Conference in Italy! ๐ฎ๐น As a first-time attendee, I appreciated meeting so many incredible scientists from across the world. We spent the days talking about carbohydrates, and the nights eating them. ๐ #Glycobiology #Glycotime
GlyCounter (and pre-print) from the @riley-research.bsky.social is now out to help inspect raw MS data for glycan-specific ions.
Congrats to first author Katie Kothlow for leading this and to all RRG members who helped test GlyCounter's utility for numerous datasets! This was a great team effort.
Great talk yesterday!! ๐
Today we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Dayhoff, founder of bioinformatics and creator of the first sequence databases. Her legacy inspires generations of scientists in bioinformatics, proteomics, and computational biology.
bit.ly/4hmTdLl
#WomenInScience #Bioinformatics #Proteomics
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
The erosion of trust in science & scientists โ sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans โ has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
I am excited to discuss our efforts in @riley-research.bsky.social to help streamline glycoproteomics methods at the @glygen.bsky.social webinar next week!
Despite current events, @riley-research.bsky.social enjoyed @us-hupo.bsky.social last week!
Connecting w/ colleagues was an antidote for the frustration that occupies a lot of my brain space these days
Thanks for the continual motivation to pursue good science and support scientists however we can
My favorite takeaway from #USHUPO2025 so far?! Building a business is not too different from building a lab. Huge thanks to @lindsaykpino.com & @nmriley.bsky.social for hosting a phenomenal workshop on the business of starting a lab!!!
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundationโs list of flagged words includes both โWomenโ and โFemale.โ
The final chapter of my PhD thesis is officially published!๐ It's a true reflection of collaborative research and I can't thank my PhD supervisor, Clarissa Melo Czekster, enough. Of course, the figures feature the most amount of pink probably seen in a research journal so please enjoy! rdcu.be/d7owS
The heterogeneity of HeLa cell-lines undermines reproducibility.
HeLa cells were obtained without informed consent.
==> Researchers should avoid using HeLa cells unless required by a special justification.
Curious about artificial deamidation? Check out our updated preprint! tinyurl.com/ms6fz3sn
Now with PBS as a 6th buffer + new K562 data + N-terminal Q -> pyro-Glu investigations.
Take home message: Zwitterionic buffers like HEPES minimize unwanted artifacts!
@riley-research.bsky.social
Just let me be a scientist:
The experienced, highly qualified postdoc is a valuable resource.
PDF download
www.embopress.org/doi/epdf/10....
Scientists, academics, researchers: Weโre excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! ๐งช
Check out this UW highlight of RRG member @jacobrussell02.bsky.social and his path to graduate school as a first-generation student! Way to go, Jacob!
artsci.washington.edu/news/firstge...
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science ๐งช disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" โ๏ธ
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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I sometimes forget how flexible proteins are. It becomes really apparent when you use NMR states for an animation. That poor cofactor is getting pushed around a lot ๐
#sciart #blender3d #biocatalysis
We updated some conferences of interest on the Useful Links page on our website:
www.riley-research.com/useful-links
We have yet to really advertise it, but it is a complication of resources we frequent for #TeamMassSpec, #glycotime, conferences, and more.
Hopefully others can find it useful too!
๐จ In case anyone needโฆ
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool ๐!
Check it out ๐
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
