Sanjay Srivatsan, PhD

Dr. Sanjay Srivatsan develops technologies that use the sequences of molecules like RNA or protein to reveal important biological relationships between molecules and between cells. Srivatsan has created single-cell RNA sequencing techniques that increase the scale of single-cell RNA sequencing experiments and give information about which genes are turned on — and where — within cells and tissues. Using these innovations, he showed how changing a DNA-packaging enzyme can alter cellular metabolism, and built a developmental family tree by inferring relationships between cells using gene-expression information. At Fred Hutch, he will continue to develop novel sequence-based technologies that enable scientists to examine relationships between molecules and trace cellular dynamics across vertebrate development.