Professor Dame Carol Robinson
Research Group
Welcome to the Robinson Research Group webpages.
Our laboratories are located in the Chemistry Department at the University of Oxford and our research is focussed on understanding protein interactions in the gas phase.
To carry out this research we have adapted mass spectrometry instrumentation and methods to transfer protein complexes with as little perturbation as possible as they transition from solution to the gas phase.
We focussed first on soluble proteins and more recently on membrane embedded assemblies trying to recreate their native environments as closely as possible.
Image
A photograph of Dr Corinne Lutomski using the Orbitrap Eclipse, mass spectrometer.
About Carol
Carol Robinson holds the Chair of Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She is Co-founder and Director of OMass Therapeutics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery.
Research
From our first experiments in 1993, in which we investigated protein folded pathways, through to our most recent investigations of membrane protein-lipid interactions, mass spectrometry has played a central role.
Videos
Prize Lectures
2023-2025
- 2025 – The Twenty-Fifth Irving L. Schwartz Lectureship, Icahn School of Medicine, USA
- 2024 – The William R. Veatch Endowed Lecture, Harvard Medical School, USA
- 2023 – John B. Fenn ASMS Award Lecture, Houston, Texas, USA
- 2023 – A. I. Scott Medal Award Lecture, Houston, Texas, USA
2021 - 2022
- 2022 – Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture, Oxford, UK
- 2022 – Louis-Jeantet Award Lecture, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2022 – European Chemistry Gold Medal Award, Portugal
- 2022 – McConnell Lecture, Stanford University and Caltech, USA
- 2021 – Michael Smith Distinguished Research Lecture, Canada
- 2021 – The Redfearn Memorial Lecture, University of Leicester, UK
- 2021 – The Jones Lecture, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
- 2021 – The Hinshelwood Lectures, University of Oxford, UK
2019 - 2020
- 2020 – Distinguished Bashour Lecture, UT South Western, USA
- 2019 – Rayson Huang Visiting Lectureship, Hong Kong
- 2019 – Annual Biophysical Society Lecturer, Baltimore, US
2018
- 2018 – Joe L Franklin Memorial Lecture, RICE, Houston, USA
- 2018 – Webster Lecture, Case Western Reserve University
- 2018 – Dame Anne McLaren Lecture, UCL
- 2018 – Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture, University of Cambridge
- 2018 – The Cynthia Ann Chan Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
- 2018 – The Mabel Fitzgerald Lecture, University of Oxford
- 2018 – The Inaugural Annual David James Lecture, University of Cambridge
2017
- 2017 – The Peter Garland Lecture, Dundee
- 2017 – The Fritz Lipmann Lecture, GBM Fall Conference
- 2017 – The Hans Krebs Lecture, FEBS
- 2017 – Baddiley Lecture, Newcastle
- 2017 – The Frederick Soddy Lecture, Merton College, Oxford
2016
- 2016 – AstraZeneca Medal Award Lecture, Biochemistry Society
- 2016 – The Harry G. Day Lecture, University of Indiana
- 2016 – The Torbern Bergman Award Lecture, Umea
- 2016 – The Chemistry Anniversary Lecture, University of York
- 2016 – The Royal Institution Discourse, London
2015
- 2015 – The Havinga Medal Lecture, Leiden
- 2015 – The Irving O Shoichet Lecture, Toronto
- 2015 – Rodney Porter Lecture, Oxford
- 2015 – L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award Lecture, Paris
- 2015 – The Hobart H. Willard Memorial Lecture, University of Michigan
2014
- 2014 – Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang Award Lecture, Copenhagen
- 2014 – The Daniell Lecture, King's College London
- 2014 – Evans Award Lecture, Ohio State
- 2014 – Cornforth Lecture, University of Sussex
- 2014 – Thomson Medal Award Lecture, Geneva
- 2014 – The Birch Lecture, ANU
- 2014 – Ruth and Eddie Hughes Lecture, Caltech
- 2014 – Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, Oxford
- 2014 – The Burger Lecture, University of Virginia
2012 - 2013
- 2013 – The Krebs Lecture, University of Sheffield
- 2013 – Anatrace Membrane Protein Award Lecture, Philadelphia
- 2013 – The Medawar Lecture, MRC Mill Hill
- 2013 – The Clapp Lectures, Brown University
- 2012 – The Randall Lecture, King's College London
- 2012 – The Dewar Lecture, Queen Mary
- 2012 – The DeLuca Lecture, UC San Diego
- 2012 – The Carlson Lecture, Johns Hopkins
- 2012 – Alex Hopkins Memorial Lecture, Cambridge
2010 - 2011
- 2011 – Van't Hoff Award Lecture, Royal Academy of Dutch Scientists
- 2011 – Sarkar Lecture, Toronto
- 2010 – Maud Menten Lecture, Western Ontario
- 2010 – Maurice Wilkins Lecture, Auckland