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

7 June 2018

Outstanding for the Animals

Animal scientist, CTAHR alumnus, and retired HNFAS professor Jim Carpenter has received the 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. After getting his BS from Vermont, Jim went on to earn his MS in Animal Nutrition from the Animal Science program in CTAHR in 1969 and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1976. Then he returned to teach in the Animal Science department at CTAHR. An active graduate committee chair and member, Jim oversaw 57 undergraduate and graduate committees. His extramural research funding totaled over $2.25 million on a broad range of projects, and he has received many university and national teaching awards. Jim retired from CTAHR in 2009. He also served with the Hawai‘i Army National Guard, becoming brigadier general before retiring.

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