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Dr. Robinson speaks at Stanford for NOBCChE event

Apr. 25, 2025—Last week, Dr. Robinson travelled to Stanford University to give a seminar “Pushing the Limits of Quantitative Proteomics to Advance Alzheimer’s Disease Research” as part of a NOBCChE event held by the Stanford Chemistry department. 

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Nekesa Oliver wins award at Regional Conference

Apr. 14, 2025—Nekesa Oliver wins Outstanding Presentation Award at NE/SE Regional Conference at the University of Maryland College Park while she enjoyed chemistry experiments for NOBCChE’s NextGen initiative for K-12. The conference was 3 days of learning, networking, & nurturing in the chemistry, research, business, & outreach spaces. Congratulations, Nekesa!

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ASMS 2025 Awards

Apr. 14, 2025—The ASMS 2025 Awards have been announced and RASR Lab is happy to announce successes. Kathryn Kapp received a Postdoctoral Career Development Award and Dr. Robinson a DEIA Mentorship Award. Awards lectures and presentations are at the 73rd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics June 1-5, 2025 in Baltimore, MD.

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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!

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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!

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