Current News
Welcome, Kidan!
Mar. 5, 2025—Kidan Yefru has joined the RASR Lab team as Undergraduate Researcher. She is a second year student at Vanderbilt University studying Medicine, Health & Society with a minor in Data Science and Spanish. We are very excited to have Kidan with us and see where her time in the RASR Lab will take her!
Ph.D. Candidate Angel Bodrick presents at MMC
Mar. 5, 2025—RASR Lab member and PhD Candidate Angel Bodrick presented at Meharry’s 69th Annual Research Day. She presented her poster “Semi-Automated Robotic Sample Preparation for Scalable Bottom-Up Clinical Proteomic Pipelines” at the Medical College’s Research Day 1 on March 5th. Angel splits her time between the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Neuroscience) at MMC and the Department...
Welcome, Dr. Reed!
Feb. 28, 2025—We are excited to announce that Dr. Tanea Reed is temporarily joining the RASR Lab as a visiting Professor. She teaches Biochemistry at Eastern Kentucky University with research emphasis in the treatment of traumatically brain injured rats with gamma glutamylcysteine ethyl ester following incident: insights into the role of glutathione elevation as a potential post-therapeutic...
RASR Lab at USHUPO 2025
Feb. 27, 2025—RASR Lab’s Dr. Robinson, Dr. Adeola, Dr. Patterson, Nekesa Oliver and Angel Bodrick brought Vanderbilt’s Chemistry research to USHUPO in Philadelphia! The team presented posters, chaired sessions, and connected with friends and colleagues, including Dr. John Kellie, one of Robinson’s first undergrad mentees from Indiana University.
Nekesa Oliver receives award at USHUPO
Feb. 27, 2025—Nekesa Oliver brought home the USHUPO 2025 Student/Trainee Poster Award supported by Molecular Omics. She presented her hypertension work with her poster titled “Discovering Blood-Based Biomarkers for Hypertension Using Quantitative Proteomics.” Congratulations, Nekesa!
Dr. Robinson attends Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School in South Africa!
Feb. 18, 2025—The Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School took place the first week of February. Dr. Robinson travelled to Ballito for “an incredible week of learning, collaboration, and networking” where she made the opening plenary about the need and application of quality control in her work focused on Alzheimer’s Disease. Hear what she had to say about the...
Congratulations, Dr. Chung!
Feb. 18, 2025—RASR Lab member Nadjali Chung gave a successful defense titled Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches to Improve Small Molecule Annotation and Analysis and received her PhD on Monday, February 10, 2025.
Dr. Uribe gives successful defense
Sep. 30, 2024—RASR Lab group alum Isabel Uribe gives successful defense “Exploring ADP-ribosylation Forms Using Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Methods” on September 18th. Congratulations Dr. Uribe!