Alex Krohn
Director Of Conservation Genomics
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Krohn is Director of Conservation Genomics with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and over a decade of experience applying genomic tools to conservation, natural resource management, and herpetology. Based in Chapel Hill, he leads interdisciplinary projects that combine field-based natural history, population genetics, and reproducible R-based analyses to inform practical conservation decisions. His background spans academic leadership at UCSC, government fieldwork, and on-the-ground species monitoring, giving him rare fluency across research, management, and implementation. He publishes regularly and shares code and reproducible pipelines on GitHub to make genomic workflows transparent and actionable for conservation partners. A natural problem-solver and group manager, he focuses on reptiles and amphibians but brings methods that scale across taxa and conservation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Oberlin College
French, Spanish, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
bioconductor10
artifacts-detection10
imputation9
phylogeny9
taxonomy9
seq9
microbiome9
bioinformatics9
pedigree9
metagenomics9
r8
genomics8
outliers8
genomics-visualization8
population-genetics8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alexkrohn/AmargosaVoleTutorials
May 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
alexkrohn/AlligatorSnappingTurtleGenomics
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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