Zhihua Jiang

Professor Zhihua Jiang leads research in Animal Phenomics at Washington State University's Department of Animal Sciences within the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. His work focuses on bridging genomics and phenomics to optimize livestock systems, emphasizing RNA variants' roles in phenotype-genome interactions. Key areas include transcriptome profiling, epigenomics, and alternative polyadenylation studies across species like sheep, pigs, and rats.

Research highlights include the FarmGTEx project analyzing livestock transcriptomes and studies on hybridization in peafowl. He actively recruits students for the Genome-to-Phenome PhD Program. Advising and grants details are pending specific mentions in provided texts. His lab's contributions span domestication genomics, microbiome interactions, and disease-related transcriptomic mechanisms.