TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Vincent visits Virginia Tech for the CeZAP Symposium and speaks with XJ Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall about their research on hepatitis E virus and Rift Valley fever virus. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: XJ Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Immune 100 live at the Incubator Hepatitis E virus (Curr Op Micro) Rift Valley fever virus NSs and autophagy (PLoS Path) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.0	From MicrowTV, this is Twivv, this week in Virology, a special episode recorded on October 16th,
0:19.3	2025. I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All recorded on October 16th, 2025.
0:25.9	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:36.3	Today I'm in Blacksburg, Virginia, and here is Virginia Tech, also known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I'm here for a symposium,
0:41.6	the CZAP Composium, Symposium, Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropod-Born pathogens.
0:49.3	It's a center at the university, as you hear. And I gave a talk this morning about science communication.
0:55.8	And I thought I would sit down with two virologists to give you a sense of what's going on here.
1:02.7	And my first guest is someone who is not new to TWIV. He was last on TWIV 285 XJ Meng.
1:11.7	Welcome back.
1:12.7	Great seeing you mentioned.
1:13.9	You look the same.
1:15.5	You look the same too.
1:16.7	I know.
1:17.5	I don't look the same.
1:19.2	I can't believe it was 11 years.
1:21.6	We sat.
1:22.5	Actually, we were in a conference room last time.
1:25.1	Correct.
1:25.6	With McDonald, right?
1:27.9	Sarah McDonald, yeah.
1:29.0	She is now at Wake Forest University.
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