Daniel Raudabaugh is a masters student in plant biology at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He studied P. destructans, the causal agent of white nose syndrome, in Dr. Andrew Miller's mycology lab. (Check it out, Dr. Miller is a pretty fungi!)

 

Daniel acknokledges that he could not have done this research without the help of his advisor, those people who provided cultures from caves outside of Illinois, and the efforts of the white nose group on campus.

 

Raudabaugh's interest in science is something he traces to his upbringing in central Pennsylvania where there are many wild areas. He has two undergraduate degrees, one in Spanish/Hispanic Cultures fron Juniata College and one in biology from Lock Haven University. It was during his biology undergraduate work that he began studying mycology, which has lead him to his current position in the plant biology department.

 

Read his published paper yourself.

 

Read a bit more about the research he is involved with here.

 

What you can do now that you know about white nose syndrome.