Dustin Edwards

Research

I study viral genomics.

• AreaRetrovirusesHTLV-1, REV and LPDV
• AreaBacteriophagesGenomics, structure and host biology
• AreaScience educationSEA-PHAGES and course-based research
• CurrentREV and LPDV in wild turkeys in TexasTwo bird retroviruses, and why they matter for wild turkeys and prairie chickens

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Publications

1. 2026Science communication tools: rubrics for generating posters and manuscripts that are authentic to the practice of scienceJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education
2. 2025Acceptance, perceptions, and compliance for COVID-19 vaccines among students attending a rural university: An interventional study using brief video messagesJournal of American College Health
3. 2025Exploration of Providers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Phage Therapy and Intentions for Future Adoption as an Alternative to Traditional Antibiotics in the US—A Cross-Sectional StudyInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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Lab resources

• ProtocolPhage isolation and purificationWhere the Tarleton SEA-PHAGES lab runs a step differently from the Phage Discovery Guide
• CalculationsLab calculations and common questionsTiters in pfu/ml, spot titer dilutions, webbed plate volumes and lysate yields
• CalculatorsPhage lab calculatorsTiter from plaque counts and spot titers, serial dilution plans and webbed plate volumes, with the arithmetic shown
• ProtocolCOI primers: LCO1490 and HCO2198Primer sequences and PCR conditions for COI barcoding of invertebrates

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Teaching

• SEA-PHAGESPhage Discovery ProgramThe two-semester undergraduate research program in HHMI SEA-PHAGES: 157 student researchers in 9 cohorts since 2017.

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Writing

1. July 30, 2026Every Cloudflare product, and which ones this site runs onEvery Cloudflare developer product as of September 2026 in one table: what Workers, D1, KV, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, AI Search and the rest actually do, and which ones a complete site runs on, where, and why. With the refusals and the constraints, dated.
2. July 30, 2026Put the rules in the API, not in the MCP serverAPIs and MCP servers are layers, not rivals. A practical rule for architects: implement authentication, authorization, and business policy in the HTTP API exactly once, and build MCP servers as thin discovery layers that contain none of it.
3. July 31, 2026Rendering Observable Plot charts inside a Cloudflare WorkerHow to render Observable Plot charts inside a Cloudflare Worker: the linkedom shim that works, the domino and Vega failures that don't, byte-identical output across Node and workerd, and accessible charts enforced by the build.

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Software

• ProductFoxhoundFailed Stripe payment recovery
• ProductFoxingPublic-domain reading
• ProductFoxing EduFoxing, sold to schools

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