David AuCoin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Dr. AuCoin received a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst followed by a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition, Dr. AuCoin completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. AuCoin has spent nearly 15 years studying a number of pathogenic microbes. Graduate and postdoctoral studies focused on viral replication and egress of Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus and human cytomegalovirus. Recently, research in the AuCoin laboratory has focused on developing antibody-based diagnostics and therapeutics.