HNFAS Faculty

FACULTY	INFORMATION
Banna, Jinan
Professor in Human Nutrition see more...	Email: jcbanna@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7857 Special Skills and Knowledge: Nutrition Education, Community Nutrition
Butel, Jean
Asst Spec see more...	Email: jbutel@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7069 Special Skills and Knowledge:
Cacpal, Kristina
Extn Agent see more...	Email: kcacpal@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 567-6929 Special Skills and Knowledge: Farm to School
Caires, Kyle
Associate Extension Agent see more...	Email: kccaires@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 541-760-6317 Special Skills and Knowledge: Beef cattle support, livestock, 4-H livestock program
DuPonte, Michael W
Emeritus see more...	Email: mduponte@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 969-8201 Special Skills and Knowledge: Livestock and Pasture Management
Esquivel, Monica
Associate Professor and Dietetics Program Director see more...	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
Fukumoto, Glen K
Co Extn Agent see more...	Email: gfukumot@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 322-0165 Special Skills and Knowledge: Pasture, Livestock & Waste Management
Hackney, Lara
Instructor see more...	Email: laraj27@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-3837 Special Skills and Knowledge:
He, Yanghua
Assistant Professor of Genomics and Epigenomics see more...	Email: yanghua.he@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7090 Special Skills and Knowledge: 1. Benchwork: Sequencing platforms: Illumina HiSeq; Mi-seq; 10*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 see more...	Email: kacieho@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-8286 Special Skills and Knowledge:
Jha, Rajesh
Professor and Graduate Chair of Animal Sciences see more...	Email: rjha@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-4122 Special Skills and Knowledge: Monogastric Animal Nutrition, Gut Health and Physiology, Feed and Feed Additive Evaluation
Jun, Soojin
Professor see more...	Email: soojin@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-8283 Special Skills and Knowledge: Food Engineering, Food Processing, Food preservation, Biosensing
Kim, Yong-Soo
Researcher see more...	Email: ykim@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-8335 Special Skills and Knowledge: Growth physiology; muscle biology ; meat science: Cattle-ProductionSwine-Production-all aspectsCattle-PostharvestSwine-Postharvest
Lee, Chin Nyean
Specialist see more...	Email: chinl@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-4882 Special Skills and Knowledge: Reproductive PhysiologyDairy Science: Cattle-Dairy -Pasture ManagementForage Crops in gen.-MarketingCrops in gen.-Agricultural DevelopmentAnimals in gen.-Agricultural DevelopmentPasture in gen.-Management
Lee, Cheng Sheng
Researcher and Exec Dir Ctr for Trop & Subtrop Ag see more...	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 see more...	Email: leemj7@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-9565 Special Skills and Knowledge:
Li, Yong
Professor see more...	Email: liyong@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-6408 Special Skills and Knowledge: Food Microbiology, Food Safety
Mishra, Birendra
Associate Professor see more...	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.
Morgan Bernal, Lydi
Jr Extn Agent - Oʻahu Farm to School see more...	Email: lydi@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7095 Special Skills and Knowledge: Farm-to-School, school gardens, teacher professional development, coalition building
Nakamoto, Stuart T
Extension Economist/Spec see more...	Email: snakamo@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-8125 Special Skills and Knowledge: Agribusiness marketing/adding value (marketing of Specialty crops and products), agribusiness management, agribusiness economics, risk management, tea, blueberries
Novotny, Rachel
Professor see more...	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
Odani, Jenee
Lecturer see more...	Email: jsodani@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7095 Special Skills and Knowledge: Small ruminant support and general animal health; diseases of terrestrial and aquatic livestock; Board-certified in veterinary anatomic pathology
Oshiro, Melelani
Asst Extn Agent see more...	Email: mabran@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 322-0165 Special Skills and Knowledge: Small ruminant support and livestock
Reichhardt, Caleb Case
Assistant Professor of Livestock Animal Production see more...	Email: CCReichh@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7691 Special Skills and Knowledge: Beef cattle management and muscle biology.
Seale, Andre P.
Researcher see more...	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 see more...	Email: thornem@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 887-7625 Special Skills and Knowledge: Grazing management and beef cattle support
Yang, Jinzeng
Professor & Chair see more...	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

5 November 2019

Space…the Final (Reproductive) Frontier

Multiple problems with reproduction can affect astronauts, HNFAS researcher shows

Birendra Mishra, in the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, co-authored a groundbreaking study, “Reproductive Hazards of Space Travel in Women and Men,” supported by NASA and published in the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology.

Extended travel in deep space poses potential hazards to the reproductive function of female and male astronauts, such as exposure to cosmic radiation, microgravity, increased gravity (hypergravity), psychological stress, physical stress, and circadian rhythm disruptions. Cosmic radiation contains protons, helium nuclei, and high charge and energy (HZE) particles. Studies performed on Earth in which rodents were exposed to experimentally generated HZE have demonstrated a high sensitivity of ovarian follicles and spermatogenic cells to these particles.

Exposure to microgravity during space flight and to simulated microgravity on Earth disrupts spermatogenesis and testicular testosterone synthesis in rodents, whereas the male reproductive system seems to adapt to exposure to moderate hypergravity. Studies on the effects of microgravity on female reproduction have found it disrupted oestrous cycling and in-vitro follicle development.

Many remaining data gaps need to be addressed, including the effects of microgravity, hypergravity, and space radiation on male and female reproductive tracts; hypothalamic–pituitary regulation of reproduction and prenatal development of the reproductive system; and the combined effects of multiple reproductive hazards encountered in space.

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