Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Grace just signed her offer and will be starting a tenure track faculty job at Michigan State in 2024!!! This is so exciting and I am really looking forward to continuing our collaboration and seeing Grace build her group. She’ll be recruiting soon!… [Read full details]
Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab.… [Read full details]
Xavier is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in August 2020. He did his undergrad work at Case Western Reserve University, where he did his senior project on gorilla behavior at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.… [Read full details]
Claire is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in August 2020. She did her undergrad work at Mississippi State University, where she helped with a project using camera traps to monitor scavenger activity. Prior to joining the lab, Claire worked as a field technician studying the effects of forest management on the diversity and relative abundance of breeding songbirds in various parts of Illinois and as an intern at the Hastings Reserve studying cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers.… [Read full details]
Dr. Annemarie van der Marel joined the Hobson Lab this week as our first Postdoctoral Researcher! Annemarie did her PhD at the University of Manitoba with Dr. Jane Waterman, focusing on squirrel behavior.
Here in the Hobson Lab, she’ll be leading the relaunch of our Monk Parakeet projects, looking at sociality, decision-making, and cognition in this highly successful invasive parrot species. … [Read full details]