Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp
Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp is a computational biologist with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service. She works in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit and is stationed on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Early life. Amanda Hulse-Kemp grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Animal Biotechnology from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2010. Hulse-Kemp earned her Ph.D. in 2015 from Texas A&M University's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, where her doctoral advisor was Dr. David Stelly . In Stelly's lab, she coordinated the development of the CottonSNP63K Array, the first of its kind for cotton. The CottonSNP63K array has already been utilized to make characterization of germplasm resources more efficient and to identify economically important genes. She and Dr. Stelly also formed International Cotton SNP Chip Consortium. She completed postdoctoral research at the Seed Biotechnology Center at the University of California, Davis, where she focused on bioinformatics, resource development and integration of genomics and biotechnology tools for enhancing breeding of vegetables and other crops. At the center, she assisted in genetic analyses of pepper , cotton, tomato, coffee, and spinach. Career. Hulse-Kemp works as a computational biologist at the intersection of genomics and biotechnology and crop breeding. She works with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agriculture Research Service in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit. Her current research focus involves utilizing bioinformatics to enhance ARS breeding programs in both plants and animals. She is a USDA assistant professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. She collaborated on the Coffee Genome Project, which aims to sequence "Coffea arabica" and to examine inter-variety diversity. She was part  of the team behind the first sequencing of the "C. arabica" genome. Awards and Publications. As a PhD. student at Texas A&M University, she earned the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research in 2014, the Texas A&M University Distinguished Graduate Student award, the Dean's Outstanding Achievement Award for Graduate Research, and the BB Singh Award for Crop Science Thesis. Hulse-Kemp has co-authored the following publications: She has been lead author on the following publications: