UW Genome Sciences: Faculty

Model Organism Genetics -- Human and Medical Genetics -- Genomics and Proteomics -- Computational Biology

Faculty

Phil Abitua — cellular innovation in chordate development
faculty page | lab website
abitua [ a t ] uw.edu

Brian Beliveau — technologies for visualizing 3D genome organization
faculty page | lab website | bluesky | linkedin | pubmed
beliveau [ a t ] uw.edu

Bonny Brewer — yeast DNA replication
faculty page | lab website
bbrewer [ a t ] uw.edu

Jim Bruce — proteomics, mass spectrometry and advanced technology development
faculty page | lab website
jimbruce [ a t ] uw.edu

William DeWitt — computational biology, evolutionary dynamics, quantitative immunology
lab website
wsdewitt [ a t ] uw.edu

Maitreya Dunham — yeast genetics and evolution
faculty page | lab website | bluesky | linkedin | pubmed
maitreya [ a t ] uw.edu

Evan Eichler — human genomics and molecular evolution
faculty page | lab website
ee3 [ a t ] uw.edu

Alison Feder — viral and tumor evolution
faculty page | lab website | twitter | pubmed
affeder [ a t ] uw.edu

Doug Fowler — develops new methods to understand and edit genomes
faculty page | lab website | twitter | linkedin | pubmed
dfowler [ a t ] uw.edu

Clem Furlong — human biochemical genetics
faculty page
clem [ a t ] uw.edu

Phil Green — genome analysis
faculty page | lab website
phg [ a t ] uw.edu

Nobu Hamazaki — embryonic development, reproductive biology, stem cell engineering, genomic technology
faculty page | lab website
hamazaki [ a t ] uw.edu

Kelley Harris — population genetics and genomics; evolution of the mutation rate and spectrum
faculty page | lab website
harriske [ a t ] uw.edu

David Hawkins — epigenetics, stem cell biology, transcriptional regulation
faculty page | lab website
rdhawk [ a t ] uw.edu

Gail Jarvik — genetics of complex disease
faculty page | pubmed
pair [ a t ] uw.edu

Mary-Claire King — human genetics
faculty page | lab website
mcking [ a t ] uw.edu

Michael MacCoss — proteomics and mass spectrometry
faculty page | lab website
maccoss [ a t ] uw.edu

Sam Miller — bacterial pathogenesis
faculty page | lab website
millersi [ a t ] uw.edu

Bill Noble — computational molecular biology
faculty page | lab website | bluesky | pubmed | wikipedia
william-noble [ a t ] uw.edu

Leo Pallanck — drosophila neurogenetics
faculty page | lab website
pallanck [ a t ] uw.edu

Christine Queitsch — molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic robustness and evolvability
faculty page | lab website
queitsch [ a t ] uw.edu

Saori Sakaue — analysis of functional genomics data generated from novel experimental technology
lab website | twitter / X | bluesky | pubmed
sakaue [ a t ] uw.edu

Devin Schweppe — systems proteomics & adaptive mass spectrometry
faculty page | lab website | twitter | linkedin | pubmed | google scholar
dkschwep [ a t ] uw.edu

Jay Shendure — genomics tech-dev, dev-bio, syn-bio
faculty page | lab website | bluesky | wikipedia | pubmed
shendure [ a t ] uw.edu

Lea Starita — technology development to understand genetic variation
faculty page | website | twitter
lstarita [ a t ] uw.edu

Andrew Stergachis — epigenetics and human disease
website | linkedin | pubmed
absterga [ a t ] uw.edu

Willie Swanson — evolution and function of reproductive proteins
not taking dissertation students
faculty page | lab website | pubmed
wjs18 [ a t ] uw.edu

Jim Thomas — molecular evolution, gene families
faculty page | lab website
jht [ a t ] uw.edu

Cole Trapnell — stem cells, differentiation, and single-cell genomics
faculty page | lab website
coletrap [ a t ] uw.edu

Judit Villen — mass spectrometry-based proteomics and cell signaling
faculty page | lab website
jvillen [ a t ] uw.edu

Chia-Lin Wei — technology development to study genome structures and chromatin organization
faculty page | lab website
weicl [ a t ] uw.edu

Other Training Faculty

These adjunct & affiliate faculty members accept Genome Sciences grads for dissertation research.

Janis Abkowitz — hematopoietic stem cells, erythropoiesis
website
janabk [ a t ] uw.edu

David Baker — protein folding and protein structure
website
dabaker [ a t ] uw.edu

Michael Bamshad — human genetics and evolution
website
mbamshad [ a t ] uw.edu

Trevor Bedford — dynamics of virus populations
website
trevor [ a t ] bedford.io

Alice Berger — cancer functional genomics
website
ahberger [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Jesse Bloom — the evolution of viruses and proteins
faculty page | website | twitter | pubmed
jbloom [ a t ] fhcrc.org

Robert Bradley — RNA biology in human disease
website
rbradley [ a t ] fhcrc.org

Brian Browning — statistical genetics
website | pubmed
browning [ a t ] uw.edu

Gavin Ha — cancer genomics, liquid biopsies, computational biology
website
gha [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Marshall Horwitz — genetics of hematopoietic disease
website
horwitz [ a t ] u.washington.edu

Su-In Lee — computational biology, systems biology, medical genetics, machine learning
website
suinlee [ a t ] cs.washington.edu

David MacPherson — mechanisms through which cancer-mutated genes drive tumorigenesis
website
dmacpher [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Harmit Malik — molecular evolution of genetic conflict
website
hsmalik [ a t ] fhcrc.org

Erick Matsen — molecular sequence analysis and adaptive immunology
website
ematsen [ a t ] gmail.com

JT McCrone — virus evolution
website
jmccrone [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Danny Miller — long-read DNA/RNA sequencing to identify disease-causing genetic changes
website
dm1 [ a t ] uw.edu

Pejman Mohammadi — quantitative analysis of regulatory variation in the genome and its application to rare diseases
website
pejmanm [ a t ] uw.edu

Sara Mostafavi — website
mostafavi.sara [ a t ] gmail.com

Shao-En Ong — proteogenomics approaches in gene regulation and cell signaling
website | twitter | linkedin | pubmed
shaoen [ a t ] uw.edu

David Raible — zebrafish genetics and development
website | twitter | linkedin
draible [ a t ] uw.edu

Manu Setty — single-cell computational biology, regulatory genomics, cell-fate choice
website
msetty [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong — gene-environment interactions & health disparities
faculty page | website
nasa [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Sanjay Srivatsan — single cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, protein sequencing, multiplexed biochemistry
website
sanjay [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Tina Termini — hematopoietic stem cell function
website
ctermini [ a t ] fredhutch.org

Paul Valdmanis — tandem repeat expansions and RNA abnormalities in neurodegenerative disease
website
paulnv [ a t ] uw.edu

Research Faculty

Research faculty members can co-mentor Genome Sciences grads for dissertation research. Rotations must also be co-mentored.

Josh Cuperus — cuperusj [ a t ] uw.edu

Colin Manoil — bacterial molecular genetics
faculty page | lab website
manoil [ a t ] uw.edu

Brook Nunn — website | linkedin | pubmed
brookh [ a t ] uw.edu

Sud Pinglay — website
pinglay [ a t ] uw.edu

M.K. Raghuraman — website
raghu [ a t ] uw.edu

Senior Faculty

Senior faculty no longer accept students for thesis research.

Celeste Berg — drosophila development
faculty page | lab website
caberg [ a t ] uw.edu

Breck Byers — yeast cell biology
faculty page
breck [ a t ] uw.edu

Walt Fangman — yeast chromosome replication
faculty page

Joe Felsenstein — evolution
faculty page | lab website | pubmed
felsenst [ a t ] uw.edu

Stan Fields — macromolecular interactions and protein technologies
faculty page | lab website | wikipedia | pubmed
fields [ a t ] uw.edu

Jon Gallant — translation fidelity
faculty page
jgallant [ a t ] uw.edu

Stan Gartler — mammalian somatic genetics, x-chromosome inactivation
faculty page
gartler [ a t ] uw.edu

Leland Hartwell — cancer genetics
faculty page
lhartwel [ a t ] fhcrc.org

Ray Monnat — human genetic instability
faculty page | lab website
monnat [ a t ] uw.edu

Maynard Olson — human genome
faculty page
mvo [ a t ] uw.edu

Carol Sibley — malaria genetics
faculty page
sibley [ a t ] uw.edu

Barb Trask — molecular cytogenetics and genomics
faculty page
btrask [ a t ] fhcrc.org

Bob Waterston — genomics / gene expression / comparative sequence analysis
faculty page | lab website
watersto [ a t ] uw.edu

Teaching Faculty

Hannah Jordt — hljordt [ a t ] uw.edu
website | twitter | google scholar

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty members do not accept GS graduate students for thesis research.

Bakken, Trygve
Borenstein, Elhanan
Brent, Roger
Carvalho, Claudia
Chowning, Jeanne
Crosslin, David
Crowder, Michael
Doherty, Dan
Domcke, Silvia
Doulatov, Sergei
Dudley, Aimee
Fullerton, Malia (she/her)
Furlan, Scott
Gibbons, Sean
Gu, Liangcai
Hawrylycz, Michael
Henikoff, Steven
Hsieh, Andrew
Kraemer, Brian
Kugel, Sita
Li, Jingyi Jessica
Lockwood, Tina
McLaughlin, Rick
Mefford, Heather
Metzger, Michael
Nelson, Peter
Paddison, Patrick
Ray, John
Riley, Nick
Ruohola-Baker, Hannele
Smith, Gerry - homologous genetic recombination and DNA break repair
Subramaniam, Arvind Rasi
Ventura, Mario
Xin, Li
Yang, Mia