Kara Loos, PhD
Kara worked as a Genomics Research Associate with the IMSS group, working both as a project manager as well as on various different sequencing projects with collaborators. These projects include 16S community sequencing, RNA-Seq, whole genome sequencing, In-Seq and Oxford-Nanopore sequencing, on both environmental and clinical samples. In addition to collaborative projects, her role in IMSS is to assist other faculty members in using IMSS technologies and resources, facilitate student training and project support, and to aid in seeking new regional, national, and international collaborative ventures.