Alex Harkess
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Alex Harkess completed his PhD working with Jim Leebens-Mack studying sex chromosomes, polyploidy, phylogenomics, transposon dynamics, big genome assembly and annotation, and a general interest in the evolution of sex and currently working with Blake Meyers on comparative genomics and small RNA evolution across the land plants, with a particular focus on Dicer-like proteins, Argonautes, and 21 and 24nt reproductive phasiRNAs
Research Interest
Small RNAs, sex chromosomes, phylogenomics
Publications
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Ming R, VanBuren R, Wai CM, Tang H, Schatz MC, Bowers JE, Lyons E, Wang ML, Chen J, Biggers E, Zhang J. The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis. Nature genetics. 2015 Dec;47(12):1435.
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Albert VA, Barbazuk WB, Der JP, Leebens-Mack J, Ma H, Palmer JD, Rounsley S, Sankoff D, Schuster SC, Soltis DE, Soltis PS. The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1241089.
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Gent JI, Ellis NA, Guo L, Harkess AE, Yao Y, Zhang X, Dawe RK. CHH islands: de novo DNA methylation in near-gene chromatin regulation in maize. Genome research. 2013 Apr 1;23(4):628-37.
