Honggang Zhao

Postdoctoral Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment Section

About

Honggang is broadly interested in the application of genomic and bioinformatic tools to address ecology and evolution questions. Before coming to Hare lab, Honggang received his M.S. and Ph.D. at Auburn University. Currently, he is working on the genomic basis of within-generation selection in eastern oyster across an estuarine salinity gradient, as well as the molecular mechanisms underlying these eco-evolution dynamics.

Education

Ph.D. in Population Genetics. Auburn University, 2019
M.Sc. in Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, 2015
M.Sc. in Aquaculture, Shanghai Ocean University, 2015

Recent Research

Zhao, H., Silliman, K., Lewis, M., Johnson, S., Kratina, G., Rider, S.J., Stepien, C.A., Hallerman, E.M., Beck, B., Fuller, A. and Peatman, E., 2020. SNP analyses highlight a unique, imperiled southern walleye (Sander vitreus) in the Mobile River Basin. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77:1366-1378.
Thongda, W., Zhao, H., Zhang, D., Jescovitch, L.N., Liu, M., Guo, X., Schrandt, M., Powers, S.P. and Peatman, E., 2018. Development of SNP panels as a new tool to assess the genetic diversity, population structure, and parentage analysis of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Marine Biotechnology 20:385-395.
Zhao, H., Li, C., Hargrove, J.S., Bowen, B.R., Thongda, W., Zhang, D., Mohammed, H., Beck, B.H., Austin, J.D. and Peatman, E., 2018. SNP marker panels for parentage assignment and traceability in the Florida bass (Micropterus floridanus). Aquaculture 485:30-38.
Zhao, H., Li, C., Beck, B.H., Zhang, R., Thongda, W., Davis, D.A. and Peatman, E., 2015. Impact of feed additives on surface mucosal health and columnaris susceptibility in channel catfish fingerlings, Ictalurus punctatus. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 46:624-637.

Contact Information

(360) 261-1416

hz269 [at] cornell.edu