Dr. Shechner obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from MIT, where he studied the structure and function of artificial ribozymes in the laboratory of David Bartel. As a postdoctoral fellow in John Rinn’s laboratory at Harvard, Dr. Shechner developed new technologies for interrogating and manipulating mammalian noncoding RNAs, and for visualizing chromatin dynamics in live cells. At UW, his lab utilizes and expands upon these technologies to examine the interplay between nuclear architecture and the noncoding transcriptome, and how these interactions are rewired during development and dysregulated in disease. He is a former HHMI fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund.