Faculty Investigators

Richard M. Myers, Ph.D.

President, Director and Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute

Richard Myers joined HudsonAlpha in 2008 from Stanford University, where he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Director of the Stanford Human Genome Center. Dr. Myers received his graduate training at University of California Berkeley and carried out his postdoctoral training at Harvard University.

Website: 
Myers Lab website

Devin Absher, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

 



Devin Absher joined HudsonAlpha in 2010 from Stanford University, where he was a senior scientist at the Stanford Human Genome Center. Dr. Absher received his graduate degree in Genetics from Emory University and carried out postdoctoral training at Stanford University.

Website: 
Absher Lab website

Greg Barsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator/Mark C. Smith Investigator

Greg Barsh joined HudsonAlpha in 2009 from Stanford University, where he was a Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics. Dr. Barsh received his graduate degrees from the University of Washington and carried out his postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Website: 
Barsh Lab website

Greg Cooper, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Greg Cooper joined HudsonAlpha in 2010 from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. Cooper received his graduate degree in Genetics from Stanford University in 2006. 

Website: 
G. Cooper lab website

Sara J. Cooper, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Sara Cooper joined HudsonAlpha in 2010 from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she was a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. Cooper received her graduate degree in Genetics from Stanford University in 2006.

Website: 
S. Cooper lab website
Academic Appointments: 

Adjunct faculty, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jane Grimwood, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Jane Grimwood joined HudsonAlpha in 2008 from the Stanford Human Genome Center. Dr. Grimwood received her graduate degree from the University of Leeds, carried out postdoctoral training at Oxford University and the University of California, San Francisco. She co-directs the Genome Sequencing Center. 

Website: 
Genome Sequencing Center

Chris Gunter, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Chris Gunter joined HudsonAlpha in 2008 after a career in science communications serving as an editor for Nature. Dr. Gunter received her graduate training at Emory University and carried out her postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University. 

Website: 
Test site for Gunter

Jian Han, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

 

Jian Han joined HudsonAlpha in 2006 after serving as a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Han received his medical training from Suzhou Medical College in JiangSu Province, China, and his graduate training from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also the founder of Genaco.

Website: 
Han Lab website

Neil Lamb, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Neil Lamb joined HudsonAlpha in 2007 and serves as the Director of Educational Outreach. Dr. Lamb received his graduate training at Emory University, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Human Genetics and the leader of educational outreach.

Website: 
Education

Shawn Levy, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator

Shawn Levy joined HudsonAlpha in 2009 from Vanderbilt University, where he was a faculty member and Director of Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource. Dr. Levy received his graduate and postdoctoral training from Emory University. He currently directs the Genomic Services Laboratory. 

Website: 
Levy Lab website, Genomic Services Lab