Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
1980-07-01 - 1985-05-31
1985-08-01 - 1988-06-30
1991-05-01 - 1999-06-30
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Meng, X.J., R.H. Purcell, P.G. Halbur, J.R. Lehman, D.M. Webb, T.S. Tsareva, J.S. Haynes, B.J. Thacker, and S.U. Emerson
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 1997; 94:9860-9865.
Discovery of first animal HEV
Meng, X.J., P.G. Halbur, M. Shapiro, S. Govindarajan, J.D. Bruna, I. K. Mushahwar, R.H. Purcell, and S.U. Emerson
Publication: Journal of Virology. 1998;72:9714-9721.
First demonstration of cross-species HEV infection
Emerson SU, Zhang M, Meng X.J., St. Clair M, Nguyen H, Huang Y, and Purcell RH
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2001;98:15270-15275.
Development of infectious clone for HEV
Huang YW, Oprissnig T, Halbur PG, and Meng XJ.
Publication: Journal of Virology. 2007;81:3018-3026.
Identification of authentic ORF3 start
Pudupakam RS, Y.W. Huang, P. Billam, S. Ramamoorthy, F.W. Pierson, and X.J. Meng.
Publication: Journal of Virology. 2009;83(1):384-95.
Discover that the hypervariable region of HEV is dispensable for HEV infection
Cao D, Cao QM, Subramaniam S, Yugo DM, Heffron CL, Rogers AJ, Kenney SP, Tian D, Matzinger SR, Overend C, Catanzaro N, LeRoith T, Wang H, PiƱeyro P, Lindstrom N, Clark-Deener S, Yuan L, and X.J. Meng.
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2017;114(27):6914-6923.
Development of a chronic HEV infection model
Sooryanarain H, Ahmed SA, X.J. Meng
Publication: mBio. 2021:e0143421. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01434-21.
Elucidate the role of Progesterone in HEV infection
Sooryanarain H, C.L. Heffron, and X.J. Meng.
Publication: mBio. 2020;11(1):e03103-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.03103-19.
Identification of HEV RNA PAMPs that induce differential Type I and Type III Interferon responses in HEV infected cells