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

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Alex Harkess, PhD

Faculty Investigator
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Laramie Aközbek

PhD student

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

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Caroline Bendickson

UAH undergraduate researcher
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Sarah Carey, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

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

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Charity Goeckeritz, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
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Haley Hale

Lab Manager
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Zachary Meharg

PhD student

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

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Hannah Mueller

Research Associate II
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Julie Robinson, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
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Renan Souza, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
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Alan Yocca, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Lab Alum

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Jordan Manchego

HudsonAlpha BioTrain Intern (2020)

Jordan Manchego is building an automated phenotyping pipeline for duckweeds.