1. Editorial Board, Reviews in Aquaculture, 2007
2. Editorial Board, Animal Biotechnology, 2007
3. North American Editor, Marine Biotechnology, 2004 - present
4. Editorial Board, Aquaculture, 2004 - present
5. Aquaculture Coordinator, National Animal Genome Project NRSP-8, 2003-2008
6. Scientific Advisory Board, Oceans and Human Health Initiative, NOAA.
7. Steering Committee, International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture
8. Panel Chair, Porcine Genome Sequencing
9. Adviser, National Agricultural Hi-tech Industries, China.
10. Adjunct professor, Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai, China.I
11. International Director, Aquaculture Education Center of Ministry of Education, China.
12. International Director, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Systems and Molecular Ecology of the Ministry of Agriculture, China.
13. International Scientific Advisor, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences.
14. Director, Sino-American Functional Genomics Laboratory, Qingdao, China.
15. Advisory Panel Member, Genome Research on All Salmonids (cGRASP), Canada. 
16. Reviews for over 40 professional Journals.
17. Grant Review Panel members for numerous USDA, NIH, NOAA, and SeaGrant.
18. Panel members for numerous national and international functions.
19. Conference organizers for Plant and Animal Genome, and World Aquaculture Society sessions.

My major research interests are in genome research of catfish including major projects of:

1.  Development of molecular markers;
2.  Genetic linkage mapping;
3 . QTL mapping;  
4 .  Transcriptome analysis including gene discovery of 25,000 catfish genes, EST sequencing, gene indexing, and gene ontology studies;
5.  Physical mapping;
6.  Development of microarray technologies;
7.  Comparative mapping; and
8.  Bioinformatics.