The Srivatsan lab welcomes people from any race, ethnicity, national identity, gender, or sexual background. Our common call is that we are passionate and excited about discovering, building and communicating the wonders of biology to the world. We also believe that our research can be a force for good in the world and that we have an obligation to conduct research accordingly.
The lab is hiring at all levels. We're accepting postdoc applications, graduate students from the University of Washington, and undergraduates in the Seattle area.
Sanjay Srivatsan is an Assistant Professor in the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He received his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley in Bioengineering. Following this he did his PhD with Cole Trapnell and Jay Shendure developing new single-cell sequencing methods to interrogate development. Prior to joining the Hutch, Sanjay was a postdoc in David Baker's lab where designed proteins for use as nanoscopic stains in Cryo-ET. The lab is affiliated with the CompBio Program at the Fred Hutch, the Brotman Baty Institute and the Institute for Protein Design.
Matthew "Matt" Chaw (he/him) is a graduate student in the Genome Sciences department at the University of Washington. At Janelia, Matt built tools to visualize spatiotemporal transcriptomics in the developing worm. Later, he characterized the proteomes of extremophile microorganisms inhabiting salt nodules in the Atacama desert. In the Srivatsan Lab, he hopes to use build high-throughput biochemistry and protein design platforms using microfluidics.
Daniel "Lucas" Kerr (he/him) is a Genome Sciences graduate student in the medical scientist training program (MSTP) at the University of Washington. During his undergrad at UC Berkeley, Lucas conducted organic chemistry research for targeted drug delivery but later became interested in medical genetics and molecular biology at UC San Francisco while studying non-small cell lung cancer. In the Srivatsan Lab, he aims to apply chemical biology to improve current single-cell sequencing technologies to ultimately reveal new aspects of poorly understood human diseases and guide more effective treatment strategies.
David Mai (he/him) is a postdoc at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Previously, he completed his PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on engineering therapeutic T cells for solid tumor applications. In the Srivatsan lab, David is exploring genomic technology development and its applications in cell engineering and protein design.
Nandini Pathak (she/her) is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She has done research in microbiology and immunology during summer internships at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes. Now, in the Srivatsan Lab, she is looking forward to learning more about synthetic biology and developing new technologies to advance biological research.
Yuqi Huang (he/him) is a bioinformatics analyst. Before joining the Srivatsan Lab, Yuqi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in computational biology. At CMU, his research focused on machine learning and graph algorithms. In the Srivatsan Lab, Yuqi aims to develop innovative computational methods for single-cell and spatial analysis.
Ian “IAN’ Campbell is a research technician in the Srivatsan lab. Ian graduated from the University of Washington, majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental biology. As an undergraduate, Ian worked to identify a putative floral signaling ortholog in a local eelgrass species. Ian also helped develop a machine learning model for analyzing scientific claims in primary literature, as part of a joint project between the University of Washington, the Allen Institute for AI, and the University of Maryland. In the Srivatsan lab, Ian aspires to employ microfluidics as an emerging medium to advance single-cell sequencing technologies.
Shendure Lab
McPherson Lab
Trapnell Lab
Currently at University of Michigan MSTP
