HNFAS Faculty

FACULTY	INFORMATION
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
Jha, Rajesh
Department Chair of FCS / Professor of Animal Nutrition 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
Butel, Jean (Jeannie)
Assistant Specialist - Community Nutrition see more...	Email: jbutel@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7069 Special Skills and Knowledge:
Banna, Jinan
Professor in Human Nutrition see more...	Email: jcbanna@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7857 Special Skills and Knowledge: Nutrition Education, Community Nutrition
Bustamante, Yunuen
Assistant Extension Agent see more...	Email: yunuenb@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 453-6050 Special Skills and Knowledge:
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
Hackney, Lara
Instructor see more...	Email: laraj27@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-3837 Special Skills and Knowledge:
He, Yanghua
Associate Professor - 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; 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 see more...	Email: kacieho@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-8286 Special Skills and Knowledge:
Jun, Soojin
Professor see more...	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 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
Mahato, Prem Lal
Junior Extension Agent see more...	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 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.
Mishra, Rajeev Kumar
Assistant Specialist see more...	Email: rajeevkm@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-3847 Special Skills and Knowledge:
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
Oshiro, Melelani
Associate Extension Agent see more...	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 see more...	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 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
Wise, James TF
Assistant Professor see more...	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 see more...	Email: zhiy@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 956-7411 Special Skills and Knowledge: Food biopolymers, Rheology, Non-thermal processing, food microstructures

4 September 2024

Deep Dive

HNFAS/Sea Grant partnership leads to new aquaculture facility

It’s been a long-term objective of CTAHR to establish an aquaculture facility on the UH Mānoa campus. That objective was realized in 2024.

With funding from the UHM Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research, CTAHR, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Andre Seale of the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food, and Animal Sciences has partnered with the UH Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant) to create the new “Tuahine Aquaculture Research and Education Center.”

“Ultimately, through a versatile and integrated system design capable of providing animals with a range of environmental conditions, the main goal of the center, known as TAREC, will be to provide a platform for integrated research, Extension, and education activities that address aquaculture industry needs and funding agency priorities, while supporting workforce development,” says Andre.

CTAHR’s partner in this endeavor, Dr. Darren Lerner of Hawai‘i Sea Grant, remarks, “We have been thrilled to work with Dr. Seale over the past several years to help create a much-needed aquaculture facility (TAREC) at the university of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and look forward to our continued partnership on aquaculture research, outreach, and education activities.”

The recently completed facility, which is located within CTAHR’s Magoon Research and Education Station:

encompasses about 8,600 square feet and contains two recirculation systems that may be used for housing aquatic organisms in either fresh water or seawater.
has nearly 80 tanks and experimental aquaria ranging in capacity from 20-5,000 liters, and is currently housing tilapia broodstock and native Hawaiian sea cucumbers for ongoing research projects.
is already helping Andre and his students conduct a Sea Grant-funded study on striped mullet culture for Hawaiian fishpond restocking efforts.
is being utilized by Andre for experiential learning activities on aquaculture systems by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in our aquaculture production course (ANSC450/ OCN 450).
Future outreach and education activities include collaborating with Sea Grant on aquaculture training workshops for the community.

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