Dr. Huanmin Zhang received his Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science from the Northwestern Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry in 1977. He earned, from the University of California Davis, a Master’s degree in Animal Science in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1991. From 1990 to 2002, he worked as a Senior Research Specialist and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Arizona. From 2002 to 2023, he served as a Research Geneticist at the Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, USDA-ARS. Now, he is the Senior Research Scientist at the U.S. National Poultry Research Center. His research interests and expertise include Marek’s disease, genetics and epigenetics, genetic resistance to disease of livestock, avian leukosis, host genetics and vaccine efficacy, and host genetics and behavior characteristics.