The Bee lab
PEOPLE
Our team
Zhou started the current team at China Agricultural University in 2016. Young scientists and students joined with varied academic backgrounds, learning new knowledge while contributing to the common goal.
Faculty
Xin Zhou 周欣
Ph.D., Professor
xinzhou(a)cau.edu.cn
Xin Zhou received his PhD in Entomology at Rutgers University, USA and worked as a postdoc researcher at Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Canada. Before joining China Agricultural University, Zhou worked at the BGI for 6 years, as the Executive Director of the China National GeneBank. Zhou is now a Professor at the Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University and a senior PI at Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, National Engineer and Technology Research Center for Fruit and Vegetable Processing. Read more...
Shiqi Luo 罗诗琦
Ph.D., Associate Professor
shiqi_luo(a)cau.edu.cn
Shiqi Luo received her PhD in Zoology at Peking University in 2013 and worked as a postdoc researcher at Peking University for three years. Her research interests include population and evolutionary genomics of insects. Using high-throughput sequencing, comparative genomics and molecular biology methods, she hopes to understand the roles of genomic evolution, symbiont genomic evolution and gene regulation by small RNAs, in insect adaptation to diverse environments. Luo is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Entomology. Read more...
Shanlin Liu 刘山林
Ph.D., Associate Professor
shanlin.liu(a)cau.edu.cn
Shanlin Liu finished his Ph.D. at Copenhagen University working on conservation genomics - his Ph.D. thesis studied the genomics of saola. Before his time in Denmark, Shanlin has spent five years in BGI-research and has led or participated in the development of several assembly software, including SOAPBarcode, SOAPDenovo_Trans, and MitoZ. Also, Shanlin has played an important role in the 1KITE (1,000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project which aims to study the transcriptomes of more than 1,000 insect species encompassing all recognized insect orders so as to infer robust phylogenetic backbone trees of insects. Read more...
Xue Zhang 张雪
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
zhangxue05(a)cau.edu.cn
Xue Zhang is broadly interested in the symbiosis between microbiome and insects. Particularly she uses DNA technology and omics strategies to explore the origin of symbionts, the homeostasis of symbiotic community and the microbiome interaction with insects, through which, more significantly, she manipulates the symbiotic microbiome to change the function of the hosts. Read more...
Chengfeng Yang 杨成凤
Ph.D., PostDoc
cfyang07(a)126.com
Chengfeng Yang received her Master degree in the College of Food Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, and PhD at the Zhou lab, CAU. Yang is now carrying out research on the coexistence relationship among intestinal bacteria at the strain level.
Students
Junbo Tang 唐浚博
Ph. D. student
twg0312(a)hotmail.com
Lizhen Guo 郭丽珍
Ph. D. student
glx0127(a)cau.edu.cn
I got my Bachelor degree in China Pharmaceutical University and Master degree in Nanjing Medical University, with a major in genetics. I am interested in understanding genetic mechanisms using genetics tools including gene editing technologies. I am very glad to join the Zhou lab to study honeybees. By the way, I wish I could be a cat in my next life. I am co-supervised by Xin Zhou and Xue Zhang.
Lizhen Guo graduated from Northeast Agricultural University , with a major in Food Quality and Safety. Guo recently completed her Master degree at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University. She is developing a new pipeline to effectively screen antimicrobial peptides from insect transcriptomes. Lizhen is co-supervised by Prof. Xin Zhou and Shiqi Luo.
Benfeng Han 韩本凤
Ph. D. student
934942055(a)qq.com
Jiangxing Dong 董江星
Ph. D. student
djx571(a)yeah.net
Benfeng Han received her Master degree in plant protection at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Han will become a PhD student in Zhou lab, co-supervised by Xin Zhou and Xue Zhang, working on gut microbiota of honeybees. She is interested in photography, finding beautiful scenery.
Jiangxing Dong graduated from Henan Normal University and received a Master degree in the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he worked at Novogene for 1 year as a bioinformatics analyst, where he mainly studied fish genomics. Dong is now a PhD student in the Zhou lab.
Lifei Qiu 邱立飞
Ph. D. student
qiulifei(a)snnu.edu.cn
Lifei Qiu received his Master degree in Shaanxi Normal University. Lifei has extensive experience in field work, especially at collecting. He is working on evolutionary genomics of Apis.
Bo Li 李博
Ph. D. student
2433658421(a)qq.com
Zhenfang Li 李振芳
Ph. D. student
lzf3246(a)163.com
Bo Li received his Master degree in the College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University. Li is now a PhD student in the Zhou lab. He is interested in the evolution of bees.
Zhenfang Li received her master degree in the College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University. She admires how hard the honeybees work for a better life and wishes to become one of them. Zhenfang is supervised by Prof. Shiqi Luo.
Ye Xiao 肖烨
Ph. D. student
453005009(a)qq.com
Ye Xiao received her Master degree in the College of Agriculture, South China Agruicultural University. She believes in the circle of life and evolution that drives it. She is very interested in the evolution of bees and hopes to explain these phenomena with -omics. Ye is co-supervised by Xin Zhou and Shanlin Liu.
Jiaming Liu 刘佳铭
Ph. D. student
745530138(a)qq.com
I graduated from the Northeast Agricultural University, China, with a major in Plant Protection. I joined the Zhou lab with an interest in the honeybee gut microbiota, supervised by Prof. Shiqi Luo. I hope to explore the mechanism, by which the gut community influences the immune system of honeybees. By the way, I enjoy all kinds of delicious food.
Yifan Gu 顾一凡
Ph. D. student
1398559971(a)qq.com
Yifan Gu received his Master degree in Marine Biology at Dalian Ocean University in 2021. Yifan is now a PhD student in Zhou lab working on evolutionary genomics of Apis, co-supervised by Xin Zhou and Shanlin Liu.
Bing Yang 杨炳
Ph. D. student
yangbingheart(a)163.com
Yang graduated from the Capital Normal University with a Master's degree in ecology. His previous research mainly focused on the development of algorithms for phylogeny and species identification using artificial intelligence. He is interested in bioinformatics using cutting-edge algorithms such as artificial intelligence, evolutionary genomics, and computational biology.
Shuai Wang 王帅
Ph. D. student
438812928(a)qq.com
Shuai Wang receied her Master degree in South China Normal University. Wang is now a PhD student in Zhou lab. She is working on the mechanism of honeybee body pigmentation.
Bingxin Zhang 张冰心
Ph. D. student
bxzhang1997(a)126.com
Bingxin Zhang graduated from Jiangxi Agricultural University, with a bachelor's degree in Plant Protection. Zhang will become a postgraduate in the Zhou lab working on gut microbiota of the honey bees.
Zhunan Zhao 赵竹楠
Ph. D. student
scrin38(a)outlook.com
Zhunan Zhao graduated from the College of Biological Sciences，China Agricultural University and received Ms at Zhou lab. Zhao is now a Ph.D. student working in the Zhou lab with an interest in pollination ecology, supervised by Shanlin Liu.
Shuyi Zhang 张纾意
Ph.D. student
503919598(a)qq.com
Shuyi Zhang graduated from Capital Normal University, with a major of biotechnology. After graduation, Zhang joined the Zhou Lab as a research associate. And now, Zhang is a PhD student focusing on pollination ecology.
Xinyue Zhang 张馨月
Master student
3515762764(a)qq.com
Fei Mo 莫非
Master student
939891514(a)qq.com
Xinyue Zhang just graduated from the Plant Protection College of China Agricultural University. Zhang is a master student in the Zhou lab, supervised by Prof. Shiqi Luo, with an interest in gut microbiota of the honeybees.
Fei Mo graduated from Hainan University with a major in plant protection. He is interested in species evolution and pollination biology. He wants to explore the relationship between humans and ecosystems and he also hopes to learn photography from Dr. Zhou, so he is now a worker bee in Zhou's hive.
Danlei Liang 梁丹蕾
Master student
1657723219(a)qq.com
Mengjiao Su 苏梦姣
Master student
smj191101(a)163.com
I graduated from Yunnan Agricultural University，with a major in plant protection.Now is a postgraduate student working in the Zhou lab and hoping to explore the honeybee gut microbiota. My wish is to do the experiment without losing my hair.
Mengjiao Su graduated from Henan University of Science and Technology with a major in plant protection. Su loves learning and life. She enjoys sports and travel, with a passion to learn photography so that she could record all the good things in her life.
Min Huang 黄敏
Master student
huang_091206(a)163.com
Jiawei Hu 胡家玮
Master student
1115454199(a)qq.com
Min Huang graduated from Henan Agricultural University with a bachelor's degree. She loves learning, reading and idling. And she loves everything in nature. Min Huang is supervised by Prof. Shiqi Luo.
Jiawei Hu graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University with a bachelor's degree. Now he is a master student studying in the Zhou lab, supervised by Prof. Xue Zhang. He's going to study honey bee gut microbiome and learn about bioinformatics. Finally, he likes to sing, dance, rap and play basketball.
Changwu Shi 石昌伍
Master student
1398119484(a)qq.com
Zihan Lin 林子涵
Master student
358408446(a)qq.com
Changwu Shi graduated from Shandong Agricultural University, majoring in plant protection. He has no particular hobbies, but he can't stop eating delicious durian and cheese. He likes to watch documentaries of the insect world and is deeply interested in the behavior and evolution of social insects. Changwu is supervised by Prof. Shanlin Liu.
Zihan Lin graduated from Southwest University, with a major in agriculture. She is a cat person and keeps a cat named Saner. She really enjoys the life with her cat, which makes her feel relaxed and recharged. She also loves everything to do with art, like drowning in the music, playing the insrtuments, reading the books and so on. Recently she's become strongly obsessed with Hume’s Problems. It is a lot of hard work, but it was worth it. Not only it helps acquire critical thinking skills, but also provides insights to her research project. Most importantly, she enjoys the process in pursing the answers.
Yashuai Wu 吴亚帅
Master student
wu_ya_shuai(a)163.com
Na Qiu 邱娜
Master student
15044610892(a)163.com
Yashuai Wu graduated from the College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University. Wu is now a master student in the Zhou lab, supervised by Prof. Shiqi Luo, working on small RNAs, supervised by Prof. Luo. In particular, he hopes to reveal the regulation effect of tsRNAs in honeybees.
Na Qiu graduated from the Northwest Agricultural and Foresty University with a major in forest protection. She enjoys calligraphy and travel and dreams of being an artist. She likes challenges, no matter what difficulties she encounters. She is always ready to try and respond positively. Na is supervised by Prof. Shanlin Liu.
Haiyue Sun 孙海月
Undergraduate student
2018319010307(a)cau.edu.cn
Haiyue Sun graduated from China Agricultural University, majoring in plant protection. Now she is a graduate student in Zhou lab, and hopes to study and engage in scientific research in her future study and life. She wants to make more friends while making more academic attempts.
Jiajia Yang 杨佳佳
Undergraduate student
1456103935(a)qq.com
JiaJia Yang is an undergraduate student of the College of Plant Protection, who is eager to learn about bees for developing better honey products.
Alumni
Yongkun Ji 纪永坤
PostDoc, 2017-2020
Now: Gomics Gene Technology, Nanjing
Yuxue Li 李玉雪
Technician, 2017
Xinmi Song 宋欣密
Research Associate, 2018-2019
Now: Ph.D. student at Huazhong Agricultural University
Lifei Qiu 邱立飞
Research Associate, 2018-2019
Now: Ph.D. student at Zhou lab, CAU
Wenli Wu 吴文立
Research Associate, 2019-2020
Qinzhi Su 苏秦之
Ph. D. student, 2016-2022
Now: PostDoc at Peking University
Chenyi Li 李晨伊
Ph. D. student, 2016-2022
Now: PostDoc at Shenyang Agricultural University
Chengfeng Yang 杨成凤
Ph. D. student, 2017-2022
Now: PostDoc at Zhou lab, CAU
Yating Du 杜雅婷
Ms. & PhD student, 2017-2022
Now: Novogene, Tianjin
Lizhen Guo 郭丽珍
Ms. student, 2016-2017
Now: Ph.D. student at Zhou lab, CAU
Dandan Lang 郎丹丹
Ms. student, 2016-2019
Now: Beijing Glibizzia Bioscience Co.
Wenjun Zhang 张文隽
Ms. student, 2017-2019
Now: CDC, Beijing
Jiahui Hu 胡加辉
Master student, 2018-2021
Now: BGI, Shenzhen
Zhunan Zhao 赵竹楠
Master student, 2019-2022
Now: Ph.D. student at Zhou lab, CAU
Jiqiu Wu 吴季秋
Undergraduate student
URP and under graduate thesis, 2017-2018
Now: Ms. student at Imperial College
Xinyue Wang 王昕玥
Undergraduate student
URP, 2018
Jieni Wang 王杰妮
Undergraduate student
Under graduate thesis, 2018
Now: Ms. student at Zheng lab, CAU
Si Li 李斯
Undergraduate student
Under graduate thesis, 2019
Shuyi Zhang 张纾意
Undergraduate and Ms student
Under grad. thesis and research assistant, 2019
Ms student, 2020-2022
Now: Ms. student at Zhou lab, CAU
Yuankang Guo 郭园康
Undergraduate student
URP, 2019
Ran Li 李然
Undergraduate student
URP, 2019
Boxuan Wang 王博玄
Undergraduate student
URP, 2020
Ran Liu 刘冉
Undergraduate student
URP, 2020
Ao Zhang 张澳
Undergraduate student
URP, 2021
Now: Ms. student at Sun Yat-sen Univ.
Yuanxin Wang 王源锌
Undergraduate student
URP and under grad. thesis, 2021
Now: Ms. student at Shanghai Jiaotong University
Keke Yuan 苑轲轲
Undergraduate student
URP and under grad. thesis, 2021
Jiezhen Wan 万洁桢
Undergraduate student
URP and under grad. thesis, 2021
Yuan Wei 魏源
Undergraduate student
URP, 2022
Lidi Fu 付莉迪
Undergraduate student
URP, 2022
Haiyue Sun 孙海月
Undergraduate student
URP and under grad. thesis, 2022