Ian Hoskins was raised in Colorado and received his Bachelor’s of Science in Integrative Biology with a minor in Chemistry from The University of Colorado at Denver. He entered the biotechnology sector and worked at Enzymatics, Inc. and ArcherDX, Inc. between 2013 and 2018 developing genomic assays and software for clinical cancer research. Ian was admitted in The University of Texas at Austin Microbiology graduate program in 2018 and joined the lab of Dr. Can Cenik as his supervisor’s first graduate student.