Sean Hoban

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e-mail: shoban@alumni.nd.edu; sean.m.hoban@gmail.com

web page research: http://sites.google.com/site/hoban3/

Curriculum Vitae esteso english

 

ATTIVITA' DI RICERCA

My research interests are the genetic consequences of population dynamics (spatial and temporal), particularly those in small, bottlenecked populations.  I am also interested in range-edge effects, hybridization with introduced species, dispersal, and local adaptation.  I am currently working as a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Giorgio Bertorelle (Università di Ferrara) after having finished a year working with Oscar Gaggiotti (Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine).  Together, the three of us are developing software for conservation genetic analysis.  Specifically, we are working for the ConGRESS, an online repository of data, resources and tools for this field.  This project is a large scale collaboration between 12 institutions in 11 countries, funded by the European Union's FP7 Program, as described briefly here.  The aspect of the project that Oscar, Giorgio and I are working on is creation of a software pipeline to facilitate the use of simulations in planning a conservation genetic study.  The goal of our software package is to facilitate intelligent project planning for a conservation genetics study, specifically to help the user decide the number of genetic markers, individual organisms, and populations to incorporate in the study.

I worked in Grenoble, France from July 2010 to July 2011, and am now in Ferrara, Italy.  I started this assignment shortly after finishing my PhD with Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson at the University of Notre Dame (May 2010), which I undertook after finishing my Bachelor's studies in Biology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY (May 2005).   My PhD dissertation was titled "Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Population Dynamics in Butternut (Juglans Cinerea L.)."  In addition to my work with ConGRESS, I continue to work with the Romero-Severson lab on a variety of projects, including genetic cultivar evaluation and genetic signatures of postglacial recolonization.  My work is a mix of empirical, theoretical and applied projects.

 

BREVE CURRICULUM VITAE

2005 - 2010    PhD in Biology, concentration in Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, University of Notre Dame, USA

2001 - 2010    B.A. in Biology, Bellarmine University, USA

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

  • Hoban S and J Romero-Severson (in prep) Correct identification of cultivars of butternut and heartnut, and implications for nut tree improvement The Nutshell, the quarterly newsletter of the Northern Nut Growers Association
  • Hoban S, G Bertorelle, and O Gaggiotti (in prep) A review of population genetic simulators for practical use in ecology and evolutionary biology
  • Borkowski D, S Hoban, T McCleary, and J Romero-Severson (in prep) Fine-scale genetic structure and differentiation in an island population of red oak (Quercus rubra L.), a wind-pollinated forest tree
  • Hoban S and J Romero-Severson (in prep) Parental contribution to a small patch of regenerating Julgans cinerea, a temperate forest tree: reproductive dominance by few parents
  • Hoban S and J Romero-Severson (in review) Homonymy, synonymy and hybrid misassignment in butternut (Juglans cinerea) and Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailantifolia) Cultivars
  • Hoban S and J Romero-Severson (in revision) Human impacted landscapes facilitate hybridization between a native and an introduced tree species
  • Hoban S, S Schlarbaum, T McCleary, J Romero-Severson (in revision) Spatial genetic structure influenced by topography and population demography in butternut (Juglans cinerea L)
  • Hoban S and J Romero-Severson (2011) Challenging a ‘Why should I care’ attitude by incorporating societal issues in the classroom American Biology Teacher 73 (1)