Dr. Zhihua Jiang is currently a full professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and serves as Hatch Program Chair in Animal Biology and Biomedicine at Washington State University. During his career, he developed and maintained a nationally and internationally recognized research program in comparative genome biology, primarily addressing issues related to complex phenotypes and biomedicine. His current work focuses on studying the origin of phenotypes using state-of-the-art genomics and transcriptomics approaches in combination with bioinformatics and cell/embryo biology.