Yanghua “Sunny” He , PhD
Assistant ProfessorCollege of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Work Phone: 808-956-7090 Work Email: yanghua.he@hawaii.edu
Research Interests
1. (Epi-)genomics in livestock animal production 2. Impacts of climate changes on livestock production 3. Nutrigenomics/microbiome: studying mechanisms of how different diets contribute to phenotypes.
Recent Publications
- Mandeep Adhikari, Ryan J Longman, Thomas W Giambelluca, C.N. Lee, Yanghua He*. Climate change impacts shifting landscape of the dairy industry in Hawai`i. Translational Animal Science, 2022. txac064, https://doi.org/10.1093/tas/txac064
- Jose Carrillo; Ying Bai; Yanghua He; Yaokun Li; Wentao Cai; Derek M. Bickhart; George Liu; Scott M. Barao; Tad Sonstegard; Jiuzhou Song. Growth curve, blood parameters and carcass traits of grass-fed Angus steers. Animal. 2021 Oct 29;15(11):100381. PubMed Central PMID: 34757288
- Cunling Jia, Ying Bai, Jianan Liu, Wentao Cai, Lei Liu, Yanghua He, and Jiuzhou Song. Metabolic Regulations by lncRNA, miRNA, and ceRNA Under Grass-Fed and Grain-Fed Regimens in Angus Beef Cattle. Front. Genet., 04 March 2021. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7969984
- Xi Wang, Xi Li, Sujun Wu, Kerong Shi, Yanghua He. DNA methylation and transcriptome comparative analysis for Lvliang Black goats in distinct feeding pattern reveals epigenetic basis for environment adaptation. Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment 2021 v.35 no.1, pp. 788-795. Catalog777040,
- Bo Han, Yi Ding, Huanmin Zhang, Li Zhang, Chunfang Zhao, Ning Yang, and Jiuzhou Song. LincGALMD1 regulates viral gene expression in the chicken. Frontiers in Genetics, 10:1122. 2019 doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01122
Current Graduate Students
Natalie Deans, M.S. Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences Mandeep Adhikari, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering