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PhD Candidate, Molecular Virology
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology
Graduate Advisor: Dr. X.J. Meng

e-mail: afeagins@vt.edu

2003	B.S., Biology Mercer University Macon, GA

Investigation of the zoonotic transmission of Hepatitis E virus from pigs to humans and determination of the mechanism of cross-species transmission.

Third place graduate student award (Basic Science Category) at the 18th VMRCVM Annual Research Symposium, May 23-24, 2006.
Travel Award to present at the American Society for Virology 26th Annual Meeting. Corvallis, OR. July 14-18, 2007.