Dr Rebecca Edwards PhD

Dr Rebecca Edwards

School of Biosciences
Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
r.l.edwards@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Biosciences
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Rebecca Edwards is a postdoctoral research fellow in mass spectrometry. Currently developing Native Ambient Mass Spectrometry techniques, including Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis and top-down mass spectrometry, for the in-situ analysis of proteins and their complexes from tissue.

Qualifications

PhD in Mass Spectrometry, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2013

BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2009

Biography

Dr Rebecca Edwards is a research fellow in The Cooper group developing Native Ambient Mass Spectrometry techniques, including Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis (LESA) and top-down mass spectrometry, for the in-situ analysis of proteins and their complexes.

During her PhD (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2013) under Prof. Cooper’s supervision, she developed a sample-prep free direct surface sampling top-down mass spectrometry approach to identify haemoglobin variants, including sickle cell disease, directly from neonatal dried blood spots. She has previously held research positions at Vanderbilt University, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Thermo Fisher Scientific before rejoining the Cooper group in her current role since October 2024.

Teaching

MSc Bioinformatics: Module 29784 Metabolomics and Advanced (Omics) Technologies

MSc Bioinformatics: Module 37238 Metabolomics and Advanced (Omics) Technologies, (Dubai online)

Research

Development of native ambient mass spectrometry techniques, including Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis (LESA) and top-down mass spectrometry, for the in-situ analysis of proteins and their complexes.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Edwards, RL, Takach, JE, McAndrew, MJ, Menteer, J, Lestz, RM, Whitman, D & Baxter-Lowe, LA 2023, '', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 14, 1272964.

Edwards, RL, Luis, PB, Nakashima, F, Kunihiro, AG, Presley, S-H, Funk, JL & Schneider, C 2020, '', Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 68, no. 22, pp. 6154-6160.

Joseph, AI, Edwards, RL, Luis, PB, Presley, SH, Porter, NA & Schneider, C 2018, '', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 16, no. 17, pp. 3273-3281.

Edwards, RL, Luis, PB, Varuzza, PV, Joseph, AI, Presley, SH, Chaturvedi, R & Schneider, C 2017, '', The Journal of biological chemistry, vol. 292, no. 52, pp. 21243-21252.

Martin, NJ, Griffiths, RL, Edwards, RL & Cooper, HJ 2015, '', Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1320-1327.

Edwards, RL, Griffiths, P, Bunch, J & Cooper, HJ 2014, '', Proteomics, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1232–1238.

Edwards, RL, Griffiths, P, Bunch, J & Cooper, HJ 2012, '', Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1921-1930.

Edwards, R, Creese, A, Baumert, M, Griffiths, P, Bunch, J & Cooper, H 2011, '', Analytical Chemistry, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 2265-2270.

Review article

Edwards, RL, Menteer, J, Lestz, RM & Baxter-Lowe, LA 2022, '', Biomarkers in Medicine, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 401-415.

Schneider, C, Gordon, ON, Edwards, RL & Luis, PB 2015, '', Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 35, pp. 7606-7614.

Edwards, RL, Martin, NJ & Cooper, HJ 2013, '', Bioanalysis, vol. 5, no. 16, pp. 2043-52.