Mark Alan Hershkovitz is an American biochemist and taxonomist.
[1] In 1981 he received his Bachelor of Science from Illinois State University.
He received his Master of Science and PhD degrees from University of California, Davis, in 1986 and 1990;[2] his focus in his doctoral program was botany.
Afterwards, he worked for the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics at the Smithsonian Institution as a postdoctoral scientist, and c. 1996 he joined the National Center for Biotechnology Information as a fellow under the Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award.
[2] Phylogeny of Chaetanthera (Asteraceae: Mutisieae) reveals both ancient and recent origins of the high elevation lineages Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 594-605.