Michelle Salemi

My background is in Plant Physiology, I actually love extracting proteins from difficult plant parts like bark and, xylem sap, and pollen. I have over 20 years of experience with proteomics and mass spectrometry. I have seen the technology evolve from identifying 5-10 proteins to thousands of proteins and the sensitivity has gone from picomole to zeptomole.  I enjoy the entire workflow of proteomics projects but I really like sample preparation and training users to do their own projects. It’s rewarding seeing people successfully preparing their own samples and submitting them to us. I have taught our annual proteomics class 17 times and enjoy training and mentoring students.