
Contact Info
Email: [email protected]
Location: 601 Genome Way, Huntsville, AL 35806
Alex Harkess, PhD
Alex Harkess, PhD is a faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Harkess joined HudsonAlpha in 2020 after four years with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Harkess was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Danforth, conducting research focused on the evolution and function of small RNA pathways, the evolution of sex chromosomes in plants, and broad-scale comparative genomics. Harkess earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and a B.S. in Botany from Miami University.
Lab Members

Alex Harkess, PhD

Laramie Aközbek
Laramie Smith is a graduate student at Auburn University in the Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Department.

Caroline Bendickson

Sarah Carey, PhD
Sarah Carey, PhD uses comparative genomics and phylogenomics to study the evolution of sex chromosomes in plants.

Charity Goeckeritz, PhD

Haley Hale

Zachary Meharg
Zachary Mehag is a graduate student at Auburn University in the Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Department.

Hannah Mueller

Julie Robinson, PhD

Renan Souza, PhD

Alan Yocca, PhD
Lab Alum

Jordan Manchego
Jordan Manchego is building an automated phenotyping pipeline for duckweeds.