David Merriam

David Merriam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Biology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His areas of expertise encompass course design and using data to improve teaching.  Merriam also specializes in microbiology, understanding vaccine safety, hesitancy, and how well vaccines work. His main focus is on outbreaks related to food or diseases that can be passed from animals to humans.

Merriam contributed as a co-author to the piece titled, “SIV clearance from neonatal macaques following transient CCR5 depletion,” published on bioRxiv. He also co-authored the article, “Cytomegalovirus mediates expansion of IL-15–responsive innate-memory cells with SIV killing function,” featured in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 

Before joining MSU Denver, Merriam served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  

He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis, and his bachelors of science in Biology from Metropolitan State University of Denver