Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences (HNFAS)

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
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
Cacpal, Kristina
Junior Extension Agent see more...	Email: kcacpal@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 567-6929 Special Skills and Knowledge: Farm to School
Dela Cruz, Rica Ann
Data Manager see more...	Email: ricadc@hawaii.edu Phone: (808) 649-0847 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
Assistant 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; 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, 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 - Oahu 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
Oshiro, Melelani
Assistant Extension 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 - 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

27 June 2018

Visit With a Visiting Scholar

Fulbright scholar S.M. Kamruzzaman will give two lectures on animal science on Monday, July 2. The first, at 10 a.m., will be on “Medicinal Plants with Anti-Platelet Activity.” The second, at 2:00 p.m., will focus on “Transboundary Animal Diseases in South Asia: Concerns and Challenges.” Both will be in AgSci 219.

27 June 2018

Small Ruminants

Cooperative Extension conducted four workshops for veterinarians and technicians and four open lectures covering “Small Ruminant Health,” one each on O‘ahu, Maui, the Big Island, and Kaua‘i, featuring David Pugh, a board-certified veterinary specialist in nutrition, parasitology, and theriogenology.

13 June 2018

On the Road With Poultry

Congratulations to ANSC graduate student Nirvay Sah, who received a PSA Graduate Student Travel Award in the amount of $1,000 to attend the Poultry Science Association (PSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

13 June 2018

High Aspirations in Hainan

CTAHR and Hainan University have entered into an MOU establishing the Joint Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, which will be housed at the Hainan University campus. CTAHR faculty will work as visiting researchers there, and Hainan University students and graduates will be recruited for UH programs.

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. Jim got his MS in Animal Nutrition from CTAHR in 1969 and returned to teach here after getting his PhD.

30 May 2018

Eat and Learn

During the Spring 2018 semester, HNFAS provided more than 4000 muffins and 1000 Grab and Go meals to students for free. Food preparation was a joint effort of Joannie Dobbs and Alan Titchenal (both HNFAS), with volunteer help from HNFAS students Simen Sam, Vanessa Almeida, Katie Seaton, and Nicole Tomasa.

30 May 2018

Sports Diet

Monica Esquivel (HNFAS) recently spoke at the Hawaii Athletic Trainers’ Association High School student workshop on what Registered Dietitians (RD) do, the pathway to becoming an RD, opportunities at UH Manoa, and how diet and food interacts with the body.

2 May 2018

Turtle Food

Rajesh Jha (HNFAS) co-authored a new publication, “Of turtles and trees: Nutritional analysis of tree heliotrope (Heliotropium foertherianum) leaves consumed by green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Hawaiʻi,” about a new food turtles have recently been observed eating: leaves that fall from the popular coastal tree called tree heliotrope.

2 May 2018

The Ewes Have It

Kyle Caires’ (HNFAS) project entitled “Characterization of Vaginal Tract Microbiota in Ewes Synchronized With Intravaginal Progesterone Implants,” a result of collaborative research in Hawai‘i with partners in Brazil, has just been accepted for the the XXIV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Embryo Technology.

11 April 2018

Learning to Grow

CTAHR students and other volunteers engaged 169 elementary first- and fourth-graders in garden activities over the spring semester, teaching them about nutrition for people and plants.

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