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
Integrating omics data to investigate interactions between genetics and environment in animals and humans, answering how organisms (epi-)genetically respond to environmental changes and adapt to them.
Recent Publications
1. Guanjue Xiang, Xi He, Belinda M. Giardine, Kathryn J. Weaver,…, Amber Miller, Qian Qi, Yanghua He, Yichao Li, Jens Lichtenberg, …, Mitchell J. Weiss, Yong Cheng, Gerd A. Blobel, David Bodine, Yu Zhang, Qunhua Li, Shaun Mahony, Ross C. Hardison. Cross-species regulatory landscapes and elements revealed by novel joint systematic integration of human and mouse blood cell epigenomes. bioRxiv: MS ID#: BIORXIV/2023/535219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.02.535219. 2. Mandeep Adhikari, Michael B. Kantar, Ryan J. Longman, Christopher Aguirre, Melelani Oshiro, Kyle Caires, C. N. Lee, Yanghua He*. Genome-wide association study for carcass weight in pasture finished beef cattle in Hawaii. Frontiers in Genetics. Volume 14. 2023. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1168150 3. Jingyue Ellie Duan, Jicai Jiang, Yanghua He*. Editorial: Bridging (Epi-) Genomics and Environmental Changes: The Livestock Research. Front. Genet. 2022, 13:961232. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.961232 4. 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/tas/txac064.Current Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students (Chair)- Mandeep Adhikari, (PhD, MBBE home): beef GWAS
- Natalie Deans, (MS, HNFAS home): beef metagenomics
- Jacey Mitchell (Undergraduate, Molecular Cell Biology): cattle heat-stress
- Franchesca Mojorovich (Undergraduate, HNFAS home): aquaculture