Stephanie Sila
in Team
Stephanie joined the lab in June 2022, the summer after her first year as a veterinary student at PennVet. Steph was instrumental in starting of first microbiome study in little brown bats, where she is currently combining metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data to understand factors taht impact the outcome of P. destructans infection, the fungal pathogen responsible for White Nose Syndrome, a disease that has devastated the bat populations in the U.S.