GROW Webinar - Making ex situ plant conservation more effective: Conserving genetic diversity using DNA as well as simple, affordable proxy metrics.

Sean Hoban is a Tree Conservation Biologist at The Morton Arboretum in Chicago USA. Sean also has a leading role in the IUCN SSC Conservation Genetic Specialist Group, GEO BON, and the Coalition for Conservation Genetics. He has a PhD from University of Notre Dame, and performed a postdoc with a European conservation genetics knowledge dissemination project and another postdoc at an NSF funded mathematical biology synthesis center. He has more than 80 publications and currently focuses on developing science-based advice for ex situ collections like botanic gardens, for understanding the genetics and ecology of threatened species to guide action, and for bringing knowledge on adaptive capacity of populations to national and global policy. He has helped develop and deploy several methods for assessing genetic diversity in botanic gardens and seed banks.  He regularly works with organizations like the Center for Plant Conservation, BGCI, US Forest Service, and US Fish and Wildlife Service. He also has interests in seed dispersal, macrogenetics, hybridization, and population size change over time. You can read more about his group at hobanlab.com.

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