Meet Our Team

Principle Investigator

Dave did his undergraduate studies at Yale, and completed his PhD training in David Bartel’s lab at MIT. He was a JCCF postdoctoral fellow in John Rinn’s lab, at Harvard, before launching SheqLab at UW in 2017.

contact: shechner [at] uw [dot] edu

PhD Candidate, Pharmacology

Ashley completed her undergraduate training at Princeton, before joining the UW Pharmacology PhD program, in 2017. She is pioneering the development of new RNA-targeted proximity-proteomics tools.

PhD Candidate, Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) Co-mentored with Sita Kugel (Fred Hutch)

Jess was an undergraduate here at UW before beginning her PhD studies in MCB, in 2018. She is deciphering novel epigenetic mechanisms that contribute to oncogenesis in Pancreatic Cancer.

PhD Candidate, Pharmacology

Evan completed his undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University, before joining the UW Pharmacolology program, in 2019. He pioneered the development of new RNA-targeted proximity-sequencing tools, and is now using those tools to interrogate cardiac development and disease.

UW Undergraduate

Cait is a current Biochemistry Major here at UW. She joined the lab in 2020, and is helping to develop tools that will probe the signals that drive RNA subcellular localization.

Post-bac Fellow/Lab Manager

Haden completed her undergraduate work here at UW, and now manages both our group and Yasemin Sancak’s lab. She’s using proximity-omics tools to interrogate changes in subcellular architecture in response to perturbation.

We are always looking to expand our collaborative team of super RNA nerds. Interested students, postdocs, and other research scientists should see our “Join us!” page for details.