Oscar Vargas
Associate Professor And Herbarium Director
Arcata, California, United States
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Top SchoolOscar Vargas is an evolutionary biologist and herbarium director with nine years of academic and curatorial experience studying plant evolution in biodiversity hotspots, especially the Asteraceae and Andean and Californian floras. He combines field taxonomy and systematics with modern phylogenetics and next-generation sequencing to address questions in plant diversification and conservation. As an associate professor at Cal Poly Humboldt, he directs a living research collection while teaching and mentoring students in botany and evolutionary methods. His career blends international museum curation in Colombia with postdoctoral research at UC Santa Cruz and University of Michigan, reflecting a rare mix of tropical and temperate expertise. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex genomic data into taxonomic and conservation-relevant narratives.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Plant Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Plant Biology at The University of Texas at AustinUniversidad de los Andes
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
phylogenetic-trees6
r-package5
r4
annotations4
traits4
visualization3
ecology3
biodiversity3
temporal3
bioinformatics2
spatial2
ckan2
data-collection1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oscarvargash/biol_550_2022
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
oscarvargash/biol_550_2024
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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