Li received her B.S. in College of Pharmaceutics and Biotechnology, Tianjin University (Tianjin, China) in 2006.  In fall 2006, Li joined Dr. Bruce’s group in Washington State University to pursue her Ph. D. degree.  Li’s research involves development of novel hybrid solid phase methods for cell surface protein interaction identification, and characterization of membrane protein interactions in microbial systems using novel cross-linking technology and high performance FT-ICR MS.