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Dr. Kevin Edwards

Associate Professor
Office
SLB Science Laboratory Building 125
  • About
  • Education
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

BSC 299.056 Independent Honor Study

BSC 499.026 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 499.126 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 290.012 Research In Biological Sciences

Research Interests & Areas

Drosophila molecular genetics; cell & developmental biology; biological microscopy.

Ph D Cell Biology

Duke University
Durham, NC

MS Molecular Biology

San Diego State University
San Diego, CA

BS Biology (Genetics)

Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

Grants and Contracts

MRI: Acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope within a core facility for research and training at Illinois State University
Kevin Andrew Edwards, Wolfgang Stein, Tom Hammond, Alysia Vrailas Mortimer, John Sedbrook, Andres Vidal-Gadea, Marjorie Jones.
National Science Foundation. October 1 2018 - September 30 2022
Genetic repair of muscular degeneration associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Andres Vidal-Gadea, Kevin Andrew Edwards.
NIH_R15. June 1 2016 - May 30 2019

Performances and Exhibits

Life: Magnified Exhibit
Kevin Andrew Edwards.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the American Society for Cell Biology; and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's Arts Program. June 2014 - December 2014

Presentations

Investigating the RNA molecules of meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD)
Dilini Samarajeewa, Nicholas Rhoades, Hua Xiao, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Patrick Shiu, Tom Hammond.
28th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 17, 2015
SAD-6: an SNF2-family protein involved in meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA
Dilini Samarajeewa, Nicholas Rhoades, Hua Xiao, Patrick Shiu, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Tom Hammond.
16th Annual DNA Repair Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 18, 2014
Efficient detection of unpaired DNA during meiosis requires a component of the homologous recombination machinery
Pegan A Sauls, Dilini Samarajeewa, Jay Pyle, Kevin Sharp, Zach Smith, Morgan McCall, Hua Xiao, Patrick Shiu, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Erik D Larson, Tom Hammond.
Neurospora conference 2014, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 7, 2014