Curriculum Vitae · Fall 2026

Dustin Edwards, Ph.D.

Professor and Virologist, Department of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University System.

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Publications
3Publications per year, 2005 to 2026: most in 2022, with 6.
Grants
6Grants per year, 2005 to 2026: most in 2018 and 2019, with 6.$97,561.63 awarded
Students mentored
88Students in one-year cohorts per year, 2005 to 2026: most in 2021, with 42.summed across listings

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Appointments 2

Positions

  1. 2014-2020

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Technology, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, Texas A&M University System

    Heads: P. Sudman, Ph.D., A. Nelson, Ph.D., M. Sanderford, Ph.D., and K. Herrmann, Ph.D.

Administrative and leadership

  1. 2019-present

    Chair of Institutional Biosafety Committee

    Tarleton State University

    Responsibilities

    Leadership and governance

    • Chair IBC meetings and ensure quorum/conflict management
    • Mentor members and appoint subcommittees
    • Serve as primary liaison to Division of Research and NIH OSP

    Compliance and reporting

    • Ensure full NIH Guidelines compliance
    • Oversee incident/violation reporting to NIH OSP
    • Approve charter, policy, roster, and manual updates

    Research oversight and laboratory inspections

    • Lead review/approval of research protocols
    • Assign containment levels and mitigations and sign approvals
    • Direct regular lab inspections and enforce corrective actions

    Training and collaboration

    • Direct IBC member training
    • Coordinate with IRB, IACUC, and Risk Management

Publications 3

  1. 2019

    Complete Genome Sequence of Bacteriophage Finny, Isolated from a Microbacterium foliorum Culture

    Tiffany Lee, Michaela Aguirre, Shey Andrews, ... Dustin Edwards and 13 more

    Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(40)

    Senior author · Bacteriophages

    Abstract, citation and all 17 authors

    Citation

    Tiffany Lee, Michaela Aguirre, Shey Andrews, Kayla Bahr, Abigail Ballard, Matthew Bristerpostma, Faith Cox, Leah Dowell, David Kiker, Tiffany Lujan, Stacy Luka, Abbigal Ramirez, Rheaven Sandoval, Kenneth Underhill, Haze Murphy, Cecilia Cabrera, Dustin Edwards. 2019. Complete Genome Sequence of Bacteriophage Finny, Isolated from a Microbacterium foliorum Culture. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(40). https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01039-19

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    Authors

    Tiffany Lee, Michaela Aguirre, Shey Andrews, Kayla Bahr, Abigail Ballard, Matthew Bristerpostma, Faith Cox, Leah Dowell, David Kiker, Tiffany Lujan, Stacy Luka, Abbigal Ramirez, Rheaven Sandoval, Kenneth Underhill, Haze Murphy, Cecilia Cabrera, Dustin Edwards

  2. 2019

    Complete Genome Sequence of Cluster O Mycobacterium smegmatis Bacteriophage Ryadel

    Travis Miller, Danielle Bachhofer, Ashleigh Cooper, ... Dustin Edwards and 10 more

    Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(13)

    Senior author · Bacteriophages

    Abstract, citation and all 14 authors

    Citation

    Travis Miller, Danielle Bachhofer, Ashleigh Cooper, Jessica Doty, Josh Katuri, Jonathan Musgrave, Aleksey Palumbo, Heidi Spann, Amanda Stone, Keith Emmert, Julie Edwards, Jesse Meik, James Pierce, Dustin Edwards. 2019. Complete Genome Sequence of Cluster O Mycobacterium smegmatis Bacteriophage Ryadel. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(13). https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01594-18

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    Authors

    Travis Miller, Danielle Bachhofer, Ashleigh Cooper, Jessica Doty, Josh Katuri, Jonathan Musgrave, Aleksey Palumbo, Heidi Spann, Amanda Stone, Keith Emmert, Julie Edwards, Jesse Meik, James Pierce, Dustin Edwards

  3. 2019

    Survey of Reticuloendotheliosis Virus in Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in Texas, USA

    Brittany Stewart, Camille Trautman, Faith Cox, ... Dustin Edwards and 3 more

    Journal of Wildlife Diseases 55(3):689

    Senior author · Retroviruses

    Abstract, citation and all 7 authors

    Citation

    Brittany Stewart, Camille Trautman, Faith Cox, Heidi Spann, Jason Hardin, Robert Dittmar, Dustin Edwards. 2019. Survey of Reticuloendotheliosis Virus in Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in Texas, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 55(3):689. https://doi.org/10.7589/2018-08-187

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    Authors

    Brittany Stewart, Camille Trautman, Faith Cox, Heidi Spann, Jason Hardin, Robert Dittmar, Dustin Edwards

Grants 6

  1. 2019

    $1,500SEA-PHAGES

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Recipient · Bacteriophages · Science education

  2. 2019

    $87,205Barton Springs Salamander Conservation Fund

    City of Austin/U.S. Fish and Wildlife

    Recipient

  3. 2019

    $2,000Student Research Grant

    Tarleton State University

    with a student researcher

    Recipient

  4. 2019

    $516.63Student Travel Grant

    Tarleton State University

    with Phage Discovery Program

    Recipient · Bacteriophages

  5. 2019

    $340Student Travel Grant

    Tarleton State University

    with student researchers

    Recipient

  6. 2019

    $6,000Office of Academic Affairs

    Tarleton State University

    Recipient

Fellowships and awards 2

  1. 2019

    Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Recipient

  2. 2019

    Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

    College of Science and Technology, Stephenville, TX

    Recipient

Invited talks 4

The CV lists 26 international and 170 national and regional presentations, 2004-2026, most of them posters and talks given by students with Dustin as senior author. Listed here: the invited talks, seminars and roundtables he leads.

  1. 2019

    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences

    Deans and Program Directors for University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, TX

    Speaker · Science education

  2. 2019

    Faculty Roundtable: Teaching Live: Students Connecting their Learning Experiences in the Moment?

    Center for Instructional Innovation, Stephenville, TX

    Speaker · Science education

  3. 2019

    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: HHMI SEA-PHAGES

    Dean's Circle for College of Science and Technology. Stephenville, TX

    Speaker · Bacteriophages · Science education

  4. 2019

    (REV)ised: a New Search for Reticuloendotheliosis Virus

    Rio Brazos Master Naturalists. Acton, TX

    Speaker · Retroviruses

Courses taught 9

  1. 2019

    BIOL 4090-050/060: Science in Society

    Tarleton State University, Fall 2019

    Instructor

  2. 2018-present

    BIOL 4090-030: Bioinformatics

    Tarleton State University, Spring 2018 to present

    Instructor

  3. 2017-present

    BIOL 4090-010: Virus Isolation

    Tarleton State University, Fall 2017 to present

    Instructor

  4. 2016-2026

    BIOL 4350 | BIOL 5086: Vaccines

    Tarleton State University, Spring 2016 to Spring 2026

    Instructor

  5. 2016-2021

    BIOL 5185: Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Research Topics

    Tarleton State University, Spring 2016 to Fall 2021

    Instructor

  6. 2015-2025

    BIOL 3380 | BIOL 5086: Introduction to Virology

    Tarleton State University, Fall 2015 to Spring 2025

    Instructor

  7. 2015-2021

    BIOL 3103: Genetic Techniques

    Tarleton State University, Fall 2015 to Fall 2021

    Instructor

  8. 2015-2025

    BIOL 3403/3303: Genetics

    Tarleton State University, Spring 2015 to 2025

    Instructor

  9. 2014-2024

    BIOL 2300: Cell Biology

    Tarleton State University, Fall 2014 to Fall 2024

    Instructor

Students mentored 7

Counts only: the CV names each student, and this page never does.

BSL-2 laboratory research mentoring

  1. 2015-2026

    19 students: Research students and trainees

    BSL-2 laboratory research

    Tarleton State University

    Projects across all 23 laboratory students (Tarleton, NIH and Baylor) include the discovery of novel bacteriophages for nontuberculous mycobacteria, bacteriophage-delivering hydrogels, pathogen testing in biosolids, protein-protein interactions of cytotoxic phage proteins, bacteriophage anti-CRISPR systems, microbiomes of endangered salamanders, reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) and lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) in wild galliformes in Texas, avian retrovirus qPCR assays, HTLV-1 HBZ, HTLV-1 Orf-I and HTLV-1 Tax. The CV records these students going on to M.D., D.O., M.D./Ph.D. and Ph.D. programs, postdoctoral and research positions, and teaching.

    Mentor · Bacteriophages · Retroviruses

Presidential Honors Program research mentoring

  1. 2017-2023

    14 students: Honors undergraduates, six cohorts

    Presidential Honors Program: Discovery and Characterization of Novel Bacteriophages

    Tarleton State University

    Mentor · Bacteriophages

Additional research mentoring

  1. 2019-2020

    19 students: Undergraduates

    Phage Discovery Program research courses (Discovery and Characterization of Novel Bacteriophages)

    Tarleton State University

    Mentor · Bacteriophages

  2. 2018-2019

    11 students: Undergraduates

    Molecular Biology and Biochemistry lab courses (Cloning and Expression of Bacteriophage Genes)

    Tarleton State University

    Mentor · Bacteriophages

  3. 2018-2019

    17 students: Undergraduates

    Phage Discovery Program research courses (Discovery and Characterization of Novel Bacteriophages)

    Tarleton State University

    Mentor · Bacteriophages

Graduate thesis and non-thesis committees

  1. 2019-present

    8 students: Graduate students

    7 thesis and non-thesis committees, Department of Biological Sciences

    Tarleton State University

    Including chair of one non-thesis committee (2022-2025).

    Member

Mentored student awards

  1. 2016-2025

    36 awards: Mentored students

    Awards won at research meetings

    Tarleton State University

    Among them Orville Wyss, Sarah McIntire, Samuel Kaplan and Joan Abramowitz awards at Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology meetings, and awards at Tarleton State University research symposia, the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium, the Texas A&M University System Pathways Symposium, the Texas Academy of Science, the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America, and the World Congress on Virology and Infectious Disease.

    Mentor

Service 24

Department

  1. 2019

    Student Recruitment

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Volunteer

  2. 2015-present

    Advisor for Pre-Physical Therapy Students

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Advisor

  3. 2015-present

    Biomedical Sciences Student Orientation Advisor

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Advisor

  4. 2015-2019

    Faculty Volunteer, Texan Transition Week

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Volunteer

College

  1. 2019-2021

    Presentation Judge for Math Day

    Stephenville, TX

    Judge

  2. 2019

    Poster Judge for College of Science and Technology Research Symposium

    Stephenville, TX

    Judge

  3. 2015-present

    Tarleton Health Professions Advisory Committee (THPAC)

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Member

University

  1. 2019

    Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee for Education Technology

    Stephenville, TX

    Member

  2. 2019-present

    Chair, Institutional Biosafety Committee

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Chair

  3. 2018-present

    Lead Investigator, Biosafety Investigations

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

  4. 2018-2021

    Faculty-Student Research Advisory Board

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Member

  5. 2017-present

    Honors College Faculty Member

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Member

  6. 2016-present

    Committee Member, Institutional Biosafety Committee

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Member

  7. 2016-2019

    Department Representative, Biological Sciences, Faculty Senate

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Member

  8. 2016-2019

    Faculty Advisor, TSU Service Day

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Advisor

  9. 2015-present

    Faculty Advisor, Alpha Epsilon Delta

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Advisor

Professional

  1. 2019

    Poster Judge for Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Spring Meeting

    New Braunfels, TX

    Judge

  2. 2017-present

    Science Education Alliance Faculty Member, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, MD

    Member · Science education

  3. 2016-present

    Editorial Board for the journal Intervirology

    Editor

  4. 2016-present

    Peer Reviewer for the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

    Reviewer · Retroviruses

  5. 2013-present

    Peer Reviewer for the journal Frontiers in Microbiology

    Reviewer

Community

  1. 2018-2019

    STEM+C Science Outreach, Morgan Mill School District

    Volunteer

  2. 2016-2019

    STEM+C Science Outreach, Bluff Dale School District

    Volunteer

  3. 2015-2019

    Adopt-A-Highway Community Roadside Clean-up

    Volunteer

Professional development 2

  1. 2019

    Best Practices for Teaching an Online Course, CII

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Participant

  2. 2019

    Institutional Biosafety Committee Training (IBC)

    Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX

    Participant

268 entries from the Fall 2026 CV. Each paper follows its journal record at Crossref and has its own page under Publications.