Our current team - those who are currently working on projects with the Hoban Conservation Lab - is typically 6 to 9 people, but we also have an extended group of lab alumni who continue to meet and develop ideas with us.
Current Team
Sean Hoban, PhD (he/him)
Principal Investigator Twitter: @seanmhoban |
Emily Schumacher, MSc (she/her)
Research Assistant Twitter: @koticneutralDNA |
Austin Koontz, MSc (he/him)
Research Assistant Twitter: @austinkoontz11 |
Kaylee Rosenberger (she/her)
Research Experience Extension Fellowship |
Research Assistant |
Cindy Johnson (she/her)
Volunteer |
Chloe Hendrikse
Research Experience for Undergraduates student (REU) |
Research Associate in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University CTS Fellow Twitter: @AR_Castilla |
Ashley Hamilton (she/they)
PhD Student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago |
Alumni and Greater Network:
Was: PhD Student, Purdue 2016-2020 (Sean on Committee) Now: Project manager The Morton Arboretum 
Was: Research Assistant, 2017-2019 Now: PhD student University of Florida 
Was: Research Assistant, 2016-2017 Now: PhD student at the Ohio State University Samantha Gray, MS
Was: Research Assistant, 2019 Now: Science Teacher |
Was: Postdoc, 2019-2021 Now: Senior Data Analyst Morning Consult Twitter: @AlissaJ_Brown 
Brit Garner, PhD
Was: PhD Student, University of Montana 2015 - 2021 (Sean was on committee) Now: Science teacher at Dalton School Twitter: @BritGarner 
Mackenzie Coden
Was: Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2017 Now: PhD Student at Yale University 
Loren Ladd (she/her)
Research Experience Extension Fellow |
Emma Spence, MS (she/her)
Was: Research Assistant, 2017-2018 Now: Field and Lab Manager Center for Large Landscapes Conservation Twitter: @ScientistESS 
Mira Garner, MS (she/her)
Was: Research Assistant, 2019 Now: Master's Student University of British Columbia Twitter: @garner_mira 
Bailie Munoz
Was: CTS Fellow, 2018-2020 Now: Medical surgery assistant at Eversight, Chicago |