David McGaughey, the photographer/web designer/site manager of DMM Photography was born in Baltimore, MD, USA in 1982. He grew up in the fertile plains of Iowa for most of his (young) life. In 2004 he graduated with a BA from Amherst College. He has recently graduated with a Ph.D from the Human Genetics and Molecular Biology Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the NHGRI at the National Institutes of Health