The Fowler Lab

Doug Fowler, Ph. D.

Doug’s background is in protein science and genomics. He loves learning, developing new methods and helping people realize their goals.

@dougfowler42
dfowler [at] uw.edu

Nick Hasle

Nick's research focuses on using microscopy to study thousands of genetic variants in a single experiment. Using a method he developed called Visual Cell Sorting, he seeks to understand the relationships between disease-associated missense mutations, protein localization, and cellular morphology.

haslen [at] uw.edu

Vanessa Nguyen

Vanessa has a background in computational protein engineering and is interested in utilizing high-throughput protein phenotyping to improve computational protein engineering approaches

Melissa Chiasson

Melissa develops mammalian cell-based technologies for measuring protein variants in a multiplex manner and applies these methods to pharmacogenes.

@melchiasson
chiasson [at] uw.edu

Gabe Boyle

Gabe is interested in developing new technology in genomics and high-throughput protein science to improve our understanding of how drugs work and how their use can be personalized to the patient.

gboyle2 [at] uw.edu

Nick Popp

Nick's research interests lie in understanding how variation in genes leads to disease and what interventions can be developed. As such, his work focuses on building new genomic tools to assess gene variation at scale and developing techniques to improve the specificity of existing gene editing technologies.

@poppn13
poppn [at] uw.edu

Jason Stephany

Jason's undergraduate and early work was in vaccines and Immunology and now develops sequencing startegies based on Illumina and PacBio platforms.

jjsteph [at] uw.edu

Hyeon-Jin Kim

Hyeon-Jin develops high-throughput imaging-based methods to understand transcriptional dynamics.

hjk3017 [at] uw.edu

Snehal Nariya

Snehal has a background in Microbiology. Her master's thesis focused on oxygen cycling in methanotrophs and her early work focused on relationship between lung microbiome and airway diseases such as Asthma and COPD. She is interested in learning about sequencing strategies based on Illumina and PacBio platforms.

snehee08 [at] uw.edu