Alana Alexander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu)[1] is a New Zealand bioinformatician at the University of Otago.
Alexander completed a PhD in Wildlife Science at Oregon State University in 2014, with a thesis titled The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), supervised by Scott Baker.
[4][5] Following this she returned to New Zealand for a postdoctoral position in Neil Gemmell's laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago.
[2][6] Following this, Alexander attained a Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on hologenomes, where the genomes of an organism and the microbes it hosts are considered together.
[10][11] Alexander was received the 2020 New Supervisor of the Year Award by the Otago University Students' Association.