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Yanghua “Sunny” He  , PhD
Assistant ProfessorCollege of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Work Phone: 808-956-7090work Work Email: yanghua.he@hawaii.eduINTERNET

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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

Pathway to degree completion *FOR STUDENTS ADMITTED FALL 2020 OR LATER *

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Degree program faculty

Mapuana Antonio, DrPH
Jinan Banna, PhD, RD
Marla J. Berry, PhD
Jean Butel, PhD
Monica Esquivel, PhD, RDN, CSSD
Bradley (Kai) Fox, PhD
Adrian Franke, PhD
Yanghua “Sunny” He, PhD
Kacie K.H.Y. Ho, PhD
Rajesh Jha, PhD
Soojin Jun, PhD
Yong Soo Kim, PhD, MS
Iris Fumiko Kimura, PhD, AT.Ret, PT
Kate Larson, PhD
Janet Latner, PhD
Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Mi-Jeong Lee, PhD
Rachael Leon Guerrero, PhD, RDN, LD
Qing X. Li, PhD
Yong Li, PhD
Unhee Lim, PhD, MS
Chloe Panizza Lozano, PhD, MHlthProm, GradDip Dietetics
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD PhD
Birendra Mishra, PhD, MS, DVM
Pratibha Nerurkar, PhD
Rachel Novotny, PhD RDN LD
Jenee Odani, DVM
May Okihiro, MD
Caleb C. Reichhardt, PhD
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, PhD RDN LD IBC
Andre P. Seale, PhD
John A Shepherd, PhD
Mark S. Thorne, Ph.D.
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH, MS
Jinzeng Yang, PhD

Contact

Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
1955 East-West Road,
Ag Sci 216
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7095
Fax: (808) 956-4024
Email: nutrphd@hawaii.edu

UH Graduate Division

Address: 2540 Maile Way Spalding 354 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-8544 Email: gradss@hawaii.edu Website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/

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