Team

We are looking for new team members (see openings) !


Principal Investigator

Saori Sakaue, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences at University of Washington

  • Postdoc. Functional Genomics, Harvard Medical School
  • Ph.D. Statistical Genetics and Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  • M.D. Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Current Lab Members

Winston Dredge

Postdoc, started March 2025
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Tiffany Tu

Postdoc, started September 2025
Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University

Samvardhini Sridharan

Postdoc, started March 2026
Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Seung Hyuk (Tony) Lee

Postdoc, started May 2026
Ph.D. in Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

Avni Murarka

Summer high school student, Phillips Exeter Academy

Kyra Fetter

Genome Sciences PhD student, started June 2026
B.S. in Bioengineering Bioinformatics, UC San Diego

Valerie Lynch

Genome Sciences PhD student, started June 2026, Joint with Jay Shendure lab
B.S. in Biology, University of Texas

Ally Aggarwal

Summer undergraduate student, Cornell University

This could be you !

See Openings for more info

Alumni

Carina Biar

Rotation Graduate Student, spring 2025
Role: Now Graduate Student at Jay Shendure’s lab