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Wang, Han-Ping

Director / Principal Scientist

Ohio Aquaculture Research and Development Integration Program (OARDIP)

Ohio State University South Centers
1864 Shyville Road
Piketon, OH 45661-9749

Adjunct Professor

Department of Animal Science, OSU
wang900@ag.osu.edu, wang.900@osu.edu
 

 


 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Genetic selection, breeding, sex-control, sex determination mechanism, reproductive  physiology and technology, and production method in aquaculture

 

RESPONSIBILITY:

Serves as the Director and provides leadership for the Ohio Aquaculture Research and Development Integration Program (OARDIP). OARDIP encompasses 58 completed and active projects carried out within the Aquaculture Research Center and the Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Lab at Piketon, the Bowling Green Aquaculture Center, the Department of Animal Sciences and the OSU School of Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University. He and his team have established five long-term programs, one new Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Laboratory in Piketon and one new Aquaculture Center in Bowling Green, and enhanced two existing laboratories and a hatchery (wet lab) under OARDIP.

Supervises researchers and staff of the Aquaculture Research Center at Piketon, Bowling Green Aquaculture Research Center, and Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Laboratory and leads all research activities. Serves as PD to direct, design and perform innovative aquaculture genetics and breeding research at OSU South Centers. Identifies problems and barriers, and develops hypotheses related to aquaculture genomics and breeding, and finds solutions through creative experimental designs, and data analyses and evaluations. Analyzes research results, and writes and publishes refereed journal articles and other publications (books and media articles). Actively develops new ideas and concepts, and writes proposals seeking funding to support statewide research and outreach programs. Serves as faculty participating academic, teaching and seminar activities in the Department of Animal Science. Coordinates research collaborations with other institutions and countries. Supervises and advises post-doctoral researchers, research associates, graduate students, visiting scholars and other aquaculture research professionals.

Dr. Han-Ping Wang is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of aquaculture genetics and breeding based at OSU South Centers, Piketon, Ohio. Dr. Wang has served as an invited keynote speaker and conference chair/co-chair at national and international conferences multiple times. He has provided leadership for more than 70 research projects (with funding of approximately $10 million) in the areas of aquaculture genetics/genomics, breeding and physiology for the past 26 years. He was the first to achieve success in controlled breeding and culture of Reeves shad (Journal of World Aquaculture Society, 2003) and in developing a YY-super male bluegill population and superior yellow perch strains that grow up to 50% faster than unimproved strains. He was invited by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to serve as a consultant for US efforts in breeding and restoration of American shad from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Wang has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. His reputation as a scientific leader has attracted more than ten scientists and international scholars to work under his guidance in the Aquaculture Research Center and Genetics Lab at Piketon. Dr. Wang received six S&T Achievement Awards, and ten Best Paper and other professional Awards from some of national and international agencies.
 

EDUCATION

 

         Ph.D. in Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding
         M.S. equivalence in Aquaculture
         B.S. in Fisheries
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

  • Principal Scientist,  The Ohio State University South Centers.

  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Animal Science,  The Ohio State University.

  • Adjunct Professor, The Key Laboratory of Fish Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.

GRANTS/PROJECTS AS THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Number of Federal and State Grants as the Principal Investigator                     33  ($5,910,000)

Number of Grants from other countries and international organizations             14 ($215,282)

Number of projects as the Principal Investigator                                               47 ($6,125,282)

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (PAST 7 YEARS)  

  • Wang, H.P., H. Yao, P. O’Bryant, D. Rapp, G.K. Wallat and R. MacDonald. 2011. Family–tank interactions on early growth performance of yellow perch reared in single-family tanks versus mixed-family tanks as inferred using microsatellite pedigrees. Aquaculture Research, 2011, 1-9

  • Cao, X, H.P. Wang, H. Yao, P. O'Bryant, J. D. Rapp and G. K. Wallat. 2011. Evaluation of one-stage and two-stage selection in yellow perch I: genetic and phenotypic parameters for growth traits of F1 fish reared in ponds using microsatellite parentage. Journal of Animal Sciences, jas.fass.org/content/early/2011/08/26/jas.2011-3902.

  • Gao, Z., H.P. Wang, H. Yao, W. Wang, R. MacDonald and L.G. Tiu. 2010. No sex-specific markers detected in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus by AFLP. Journal of Fish Biology 76: 408–414.

  • Wang , W.J., H.P. Wang, H.Yao, G.K. Wallat, L.G. Tiu and Q.Y. Wang. 2010. A first genetic linkage map of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) using AFLP markers. Aquaculture International 18:825–835.

  • Gao, Z., H.P. Wang, G.K. Wallat, H. Yao, D. Rapp, P. O’Bryant, R. MacDonald and W. Wang, 2010. Effects of a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor on gonadal differentiation of bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. Aaquaculture research 41:1282-1289.

  • Wang, H.P, Z. Gao, Paul O’Bryant, D. Rapp, H. Yao, G. Wallat and R. MacDonald, and W. Wang. 2010. Temperature effects and genotype-temperature interactions on sex determination in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. Journal of Experimental Zoology (In review)

  • Wang, H.P. Z. Gao, R. Hayward, G.K. Wallat, P. O’Bryant, D. Rapp, H. Yao and L.G. Tiu. 2010. Yellow perch in duoculture with bluegill: Diminished social interaction costs improve growth rates of both fishes at different temperatures. Journal of Applied Ichthyology (in review).

  • Reddish, J. M, Zapata, I., Wang, H. P., Wick, M. 2010. Comparative proteomics of regional strains of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) Aquaculture (in review).

  • Wang, H.P., L. Li, G.K. Wallat, B. Brown, H. Yao,  Z. Gao L.G. Tiu, P. O’Bryant, D. Rapp and R. MacDonald. 2009. Evaluation of relative growth performance and genotype by environment effects for cross-bred yellow perch families reared in communal ponds using DNA parentage analyses. Aquaculture Research, 40: 1363 - 1373

  • Gao, Z., H.P. Wang, D. Rapp, P. O’Bryant, H. Yao, G.K. Wallat, W. Wang, R. MacDonald and L.G. Tiu. 2009. Gonadal sex differentiation in the bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus and its relation to fish size and age. Aquaculture, 294:138–146. 

  • Wang, H.P. G.K. Wallat, R. Hayward, P. L.G. Tiu, O’Bryant and D. Rapp. 2009. Establishment of mostly-male groups of bluegill by size-selection and evaluation of their growth performance. North American Journal of Aquaculture, 71:216–223.

  • Zhan, A.B, W. Yao, B. Brown, H.P. Wang, 2009. Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers for yellow perch (Perca flavescens). International Journal of Molecular Science 10:18 – 27.

  • Wang, H.P. Z. Gao,  J. Ottobre, G.K. Wallat, L.G. Tiu, D. Rapp, P. O’Bryant and H. Yao. 2008. Effects of estradiol-17b on survival, growth performance, sex reversal and gonadal structure of bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. Aquaculture 285:  216–223. 

  • Brown, B., H. P Wang, L. Li, G. Chandler, and G.K. Wallat. 2007. Yellow perch strain evaluation I. Genetic variance of six broodstock populations. Aquaculture 271:142–151. 

  • Li, L. H.P. Wang, C. Givens, and B. Brown. 2007. Isolation and characterization of microsatellites in the yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 600-603.  

  • Gao, Z., W. Wang, K. Abbas , X. Zhou, Y. Yang, J.S. Diana, H.P. Wang, H. Wang, Yang. Li, and Y. Sun. 2007. Haematological characterization of loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus: Comparison among diploid, triploid and tetraploid specimens. Com. Biochem. and Physiol. 147: 1001–1008.

  • Hayward R.S. and H.P. Wang. 2006. Rearing Male Bluegills Indoors May Be Advantageous for Producing Food-size Sunfish. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 37: 496-508. 

  • Wallat, G.K, L. G. Tiu, H. P. Wang, D. Rapp, and C. Leighfield. 2005. The effects of size grading on production efficiency and growth performance of yellow perch in earthen ponds. North American Journal of Aquaculture 67: 34-41. 


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