Summary
Michael Schamber is a Senior Scientist with nearly a decade of hands-on experience in protein engineering, structural analysis, and all stages of protein production across mammalian and bacterial systems. He combines wet-lab expertise—unnatural amino acid bioconjugation, FRET sensor design, single-molecule FRET, and high-throughput protein purification—with computational analysis pipelines in R and Python to probe allosteric regulation and conformational dynamics. At Generate:Biomedicines he progressed rapidly through scientist ranks, bringing both technical depth and mentorship experience from graduate and academic roles. Notably, he has scaled protein expression workflows (including automation of 96-well transfections) and translated single-cell functional assays into robust experimental platforms. Based in Boston, he pairs a Northwestern PhD with a pragmatic, systems-level approach to designing proteins for specific structural and functional outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Glendale Community College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences at Northwestern University
University of California Santa Cruz
University of Providence
English