Curriculum Vitae Ruben Michael Ceballos, Ph.D. Address: 850 Dickson St Address: SCEN 601 Place of Birth: San Diego Citizenship: United States City,State: Fayetteville, AR 72701 Email: [email protected] Residency: Arkansas Race: Native American (Ódami/Tephuán) Educational History 2010 University of Montana (Missoula, MT), Integ Microbiol & Biochem, PhD Thesis: Differential Virus Host Ranges and Virus Production in the Fuselloviridae of Hyperthermophilic Archaea PhD Thesis Advisor: Scott Miller, Ph.D. (University of Montana) Research Collaborator: Ken Stedman, Ph.D. (Portland State University) 2018 Jewish National Fund Faculty Fellowship Awardee 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute SEA-PHAGES Certification 2007-2010 NSF IGERT Scholar-Montana Ecology of Infectious Disease 2009-2010 Ford Foundation Fellow (Ph.D. dissertation fellow) 2006-2009 Alfred P. Sloan, Sloan Indigenous Graduate PhD Scholar 2006 NASA Astrobiology Institute MIRS Fellow 2003 Univ of Alabama-Birmingham (Birmingham, AL), Behav Neuroscience, MA 1994 Univ of Alabama-Huntsville (Huntsville, AL) Physics/Mathematics, BS Professional Appointments 2016-present Univ of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Dept of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track; Research 1) 2012-2016 Univ of Minnesota-Morris, Div of Science & Math (Morris, MN) Assistant Professor, Biology (Teaching-Oriented) Assistant Professor/Affiliate Faculty, American Indian Studies 2011-2012 Univ of Montana-Division of Biological Sciences (Missoula, MT) Interim Director – UM Native American Research Laboratory Research Assistant Professor – Division of Biological Sciences 2007-2011 Univ of Montana-Division of Biological Sciences (Missoula, MT) Director – UM Native American Research Laboratory Research Assistant Professor – Division of Biological Sciences 2008-2018 Montana State University - Dept Chem & Biochem (Bozeman, MT) Adjunct Professor – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2005-2007 Univ of Montana-Div of Biological Sciences (Missoula, MT) Visiting Research Faculty (EPSCoR Faculty Development Program) 2004-2007 Salish Kootenai College – Dept of Chem & Biol Sci (Pablo, MT) Director-SKC Molecular Biology & Biophysics Res Lab (2006-2007) Chemistry, Physics, and Biochemistry Instructor 2003-2004 American School “La Escuela Americana” (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) Instructor of Chemistry and Biology (IB program), Environ Sci 2002-2003 Discovery School (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) Instructor of Math and Science 2002 (fall) Instituto de la Comunidad Teol de Honduras Sur. de U.T. de Costa Rica (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) Instructor of Chemistry I and Chemistry II (taught in Spanish) 2000-2002 Coosa Valley College (Rome, GA) State of Georgia Dept of Tech. and Adult Ed. – Dept. of Economic Dev. Adjunct Instructor (Electronics, Medical Microbiology) 1997-2000 Soluciones Técnicas Avanzadas (San Luis Potosí, Mexico) Director of Engineering 1994-1997 University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL, USA) Neurobiology Research Center Graduate Research Fellow 1990-1994 Boeing Company-Missiles and Space Division (Huntsville, AL) NASA Space Station Project -Flight Modules Design Publications (*undergrad co-authors/co-authors from underrepresented groups) 2021 Barnes CN*, Johnson BP, Leacock SW, Ceballos RM*, Hensley LL, Reyna NS (2021) Gene Expression & Data Analysis Pipeline Using Cancer BioPortal in the Classroom. J. Microbiol. and Biol. Educ. [accepted 12/17/20] 2020 Ceballos RM* and Stacy CL* (2020) Quantifying Relative Virulence: When mmax fails and AUC alone just isn’t enough. Journal of General Virology https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001515 (November 5, 2020) 2020 Ceballos RM*, Drummond C, Stacy C*, Padilla-Crespo E, Stedman K (2020) Host-dependent differences in replication strategy of the Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped Virus strain SSV9: lytic replication in allopatric hosts. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1218. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01218. 2020 Thonis A, Ceballos RM*, Tuen AA, Lovegrove BG, Levesque DL (2020) High upper critical limits and a large thermoneutral zone in a small tropical mammal. J. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 93(3):199-209. 2019 Erikstad, H-A, Ceballos RM*, Smestad N, and Birkeland N-K (2019) Diversity and Homogeneity among Thermoacidophilic Verrucomicrobia Mathanothrophs Linked with Geographical Origin. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10:1129. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01129 2017 Ceballos RM*. Bioethanol and Natural Resources: Substrates, Chemistry. and Engineered Systems, (1st ed