Postdoc Profile: Karla Vargas

National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) celebrates the significant contributions postdocs make to research and discovery, both university and nationwide. This Postdoc Profile is a part of a series to commemorate NPAW which takes place from September 15 to 23, 2022. 

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Q: What is your name?

Karla Vargas

Q: Where are you from?

Peru

Q: Where do you work at ASU?

School of Life Sciences

Q: Where did you earn your doctorate?

The University of Arizona

Q: What does your research focus on?

My current research focuses on host-virus dynamics and viral diversity associated with wild populations of vertebrate species across the Baja California peninsula and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. 

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I enjoy the outdoors and I love Arizona because is so diverse and unique!

Q: What are your career goals? 

I want to continue doing exciting research by applying viromic and genomic approaches to answer important questions that will help the conservation of wildlife.