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.
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.
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