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Department of Biological SciencesStephenville, Texas

Dustin Edwards

Professor and Virologist

Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University System

Plate I. Plaque morphology, drawn.A bacterial lawn in a petri dish with one plaque of each morphology, each on a leader to its label: i, clear; ii, turbid; iii, bullseye; iv, halo; v, pinpoint; vi, diffuse edge. A scale bar marks 1 cm.Plate I. Plaque morphology, drawn.A bacterial lawn in a petri dish with one plaque of each morphology, each on a leader to its label: i, clear; ii, turbid; iii, bullseye; iv, halo; v, pinpoint; vi, diffuse edge. A scale bar marks 1 cm.
Plate I. Plaque morphology, drawn.
iClearComplete lysis; lytic.
iiTurbidLawn survives inside; temperate.
iiiBullseyeClear center, turbid ring.
ivHaloTurbid ring beyond the edge; depolymerase.
vPinpointUnder 1 mm.
viDiffuse edgeNo defined boundary.

1Research

I study viral genomics.

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2Publications

36 papers on retroviruses, bacteriophages and science education.

  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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3Lab resources

The lab's protocols and calculators.

  1. Phage isolation and purificationProtocol

    Where the Tarleton SEA-PHAGES lab runs a step differently from the Phage Discovery Guide

  2. Lab calculations and common questionsCalculations

    Titers in pfu/ml, spot titer dilutions, webbed plate volumes and lysate yields

  3. Phage lab calculatorsCalculators

    Titer from plaque counts and spot titers, serial dilution plans and webbed plate volumes, with the arithmetic shown

  4. COI primers: LCO1490 and HCO2198Protocol

    Primer sequences and PCR conditions for COI barcoding of invertebrates

All protocols

4Teaching

157 student researchers in 9 cohorts since 2017.

All teaching

5Writing

  1. Every Cloudflare product, and which ones this site runs onWhat every Cloudflare developer product does as of September 2026, and which ones a complete site runs on and why.
  2. Put the rules in the API, not in the MCP serverPut authentication, authorization and business rules in your HTTP API once, and build MCP servers as thin layers on top that hold none of them.
  3. Rendering Observable Plot charts inside a Cloudflare WorkerHow to render accessible Observable Plot charts inside a Cloudflare Worker with linkedom, with the same output in Node and workerd.

All 14 posts

6Software

Products and the tools behind them.

All software

Germomics

Antitoxin Togo, Please

Season 1, episode 1021:17

What do blue jeans have to do with diphtheria antitoxin and the 1925 Serum Run to Nome? Follow the journey from Levi Strauss and the Gold Rush to the 1925 serum run, where sled dogs raced to deliver life-saving antitoxin. Timeless fashion and infectious diseases might seem like an unlikely pairing, but history has a way of weaving together the unexpected.

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