Contact Info
Email: slevy@hudsonalpha.org
Phone: 256-327-5267
Location: 601 Genome Way, Huntsville, AL 35806
Shawn Levy, PhD
Technology development and automation, informatics, genomic variation
Shawn Levy, PhD, is a faculty investigator and the founding director of the Genomic Services Laboratory (GSL) at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. He serves as executive director of the HudsonAlpha Clinical Services Laboratory, LLC., which he launched in 2014. Levy focuses on the development and application of genomic and bioinformatic technologies and methods to support scientific investigation. His team uses high performance genotyping and sequencing technologies to support projects from plant and animal phylogenetic studies to translational and clinical-based projects at the GSL. Levy is adjunct faculty in the department of genetics and department of epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals. He received his PhD in biochemistry and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics in 2000 at Emory University in Atlanta, where he set up a microarray facility at the Emory Center for Molecular Medicine. Before joining HudsonAlpha in 2009, Levy was a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with appointments in the department of molecular physiology and biophysics and the department of biomedical informatics. He was the founding director of the Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource.
2000 PhD in Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
2000 Fellow in Genetics, Emory University
1994 BS in Biochemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2014-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2010-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham
2010-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama-Birmingham.
2009-Present Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Ala.
2009-2012 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
2003-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2000-2009 Director, Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2000-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2007 Co-chair, Genomics Working Group, American Medical Informatics Association
2004 Career Development Award-SPORE in Gastrointestinal Cancer-Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
The Levy Lab is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers U01HG007301, P30CA013148, U01MH105653, U24HD090744, UL1TR001417, and R21CA201856. The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsors.
