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
- Yanghua He, Robert L. Taylor Jr., Hao Bai, Christopher M. Ashwell, Keji Zhao, Yaokun Li, Guirong Sun, Huanmin Zhang, Jiuzhou Song. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and immunity in chickens that vary in Marek's disease resistance. Poultry Science. August 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.103036.
- Guanjue Xiang, Xi He, Belinda M. Giardine, Kathryn J. Weaver, ..., Ross C. Hardison. Cross-species regulatory landscapes and elements revealed by novel joint systematic integration of human and mouse blood cell epigenomes. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.02.535219. Genome Research. 2024
- 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. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10203587. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1168150
- 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. 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/tas/txac064
Recent Grants
Epigenetics study of thermal tolerance in Pacific White Shrimp, USDA NIFA CTSACurrent Graduate Students
(Chair)- Urmita Chowdhury, (MS, HNFAS home): shrimp epigenetics
- Natalie Deans, (MS, HNFAS home): beef metagenomics
- Madison Handa (post-graduate, pre-veterinary student)