HNFAS Faculty


FACULTY INFORMATION
Yang, Jinzeng
Professor & Chair  


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Email:  jinzeng@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-6073
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Molecular biology, animal biotechnology, transgenic animals, genetics, gene regulation, muscle biology, lactation physiology, mammary gland biology
Jha, Rajesh
Department Chair of FCS / Professor of Animal Nutrition  


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Email:  rjha@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-4122
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Monogastric Animal Nutrition, Gut Health and Physiology, Feed and Feed Additive Evaluation
Butel, Jean (Jeannie)
Assistant Specialist - Community Nutrition  


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Email:  jbutel@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7069
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Banna, Jinan
Professor in Human Nutrition  


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Email:  jcbanna@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7857
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Nutrition Education, Community Nutrition
Bustamante, Yunuen
Assistant Extension Agent  


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Email:  yunuenb@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 453-6050
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Esquivel, Monica
Associate Professor and Dietetics Program Director  


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Email:  monicake@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8691
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, community based participatory nutrition, child health promotion, food and nutrition security
Hackney, Lara
Instructor  


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Email:  laraj27@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-3837
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

He, Yanghua
Associate Professor - Genomics and Epigenomics  


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Email:  yanghua.he@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7090
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

1. Benchwork: Sequencing platforms: Illumina HiSeq; Mi-seq; 10x Genomics; Nanopore sequencing. Library constructions for sequencing: DNA-seq; RNA-seq; ChIP-seq and CUT&RUN; MBD-seq; MeDIP-seq; WGBS; RRBS; Bisulfite cloning sequencing; pyrosequencing; HiC; PLAC-seq; ATAC-seq. CRISPR-based technologies (Genome-editing and Epigenome-editing). sgRNA Library Screening. 2. Data analysis: Bioinformatics in Genetic and Epigenetic data analysis; Galaxy platform; Linux Operating System; Computational languages: Perl, Python, R, Matlab, SAS, C++
Ho, Kacie
Associate Professor  


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Email:  kacieho@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8286
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Jun, Soojin
Professor  


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Email:  soojin@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8283
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Food Engineering, Food Processing, Food preservation, Biosensing
Lee, Cheng Sheng
Researcher and Exec Dir Ctr for Trop & Subtrop Ag  


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Email:  chenglee@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-3385
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Reproduction control in marine finfish and marine shrimp; Early life history of fish and shrimp; Ecology of live feed organisms; and Aquaculture Management in general.
Lee, Mi-Jeong
Associate Professor  


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Email:  leemj7@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-9565
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Li, Yong
Professor  


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Email:  liyong@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-6408
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Food Microbiology, Food Safety
Mahato, Prem Lal
Junior Extension Agent  


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Email:  pmahato@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 969-8218
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Poultry production, specialized in eggshell strength measurement and evaluation
Mishra, Birendra
Associate Professor  


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Email:  bmishra@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7021
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals and Poultry, Environmental stress on reproduction, Transcriptional regulation of egg formation in the laying hens, nutritional programming to increase the reproductive efficiencies.
Mishra, Rajeev Kumar
Assistant Specialist  


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Email:  rajeevkm@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-3847
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Novotny, Rachel
Professor  


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Email:  novotny@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-3848
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Community and global nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Public health nutrition; Field assessment of nutrition status
Oshiro, Melelani
Associate Extension Agent  


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Email:  mabran@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 322-4892
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Livestock production and husbandry, Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) training, small ruminant production.
Reichhardt, Caleb Case
Assistant Professor - Livestock Animal Production  


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Email:  CCReichh@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7691
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Ruminant Livestock Management, Production, and Muscle Biology.
Seale, Andre P.
Researcher and Professor  


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Email:  seale@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8961
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Comparative endocrinology, fish physiology, cell and molecular biology, signal transduction, aquaculture.
Thorne, Mark
Specialist  


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Email:  thornem@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 887-7625
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Grazing management and beef cattle support
Wise, James TF
Assistant Professor  


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Email:  jw410@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8337
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Metals, energy metabolism, xenobiotic metabolism, environmental health, lung cancer, marine mammals
Yang, Zhi
Assistant Professor in Food Chemistry  


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Email:  zhiy@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7411
Special Skills and Knowledge:  

Food biopolymers, Rheology, Non-thermal processing, food microstructures
29 April 2019

NIFA (Heart) CHL

NIFA (Heart) CHL

The CTAHR Children’s Healthy Living (CHL) Program headed by Rachel Novotny (HNFAS) was recognized April 25 by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

CHL won the Mission Integration of Research, Education, and Extension Award for working across all three of NIFA’s mission areas to produce positive outcomes in agriculture, the environment, communities, or people. The category award was one of three given to lead institutions of NIFA-supported projects that have resulted in exceptional impacts. 

The CHL program is designed to partner with remote, underserved, minority populations in the Pacific to increase the region’s capacity to build and sustain a healthy food and physical environment. The goal is to prevent obesity among young children. CHL combines various efforts to train a public health and nutrition workforce; conduct public health and nutrition research; develop a food, nutrition, and physical activity data-management and -evaluation system; and communicate nutrition- and health-related information to the public.

During its Day of Appreciation ceremony, NIFA honored several land-grant university partners with NIFA Partnership Awards for supporting NIFA’s mission to advance agricultural research, education, and outreach to solve societal challenges. These projects exemplify what NIFA Director J. Scott Angle calls “work [that] has significantly made a difference in elevating agriculture and science for the benefit of Americans.”
 

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