Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Research Assistants to join the team (see openings) !

Jump to staff, PhD students, administrative support, lab visitors, alumni.

Staff

Yanmei Dou

Principal Investigator, Sept. 2021-

  • Ph.D. with Prof. Liping Wei, Peking University
  • Postdoc with Prof. Peter J Park, Harvard Medical School

Yunchao Zheng

Assistant Professor, Feb. 2024-

  • B.S. in Agronomy, Zhejiang University
  • Ph.D. in Biophysics, Zhejiang University (2014.8-2020.9); Visiting Student in Population Epigenetics and Epigenomics, Technical University of Munich (2018.3-2019.4)
  • Postdoc Fellow with Prof. Yanmei Dou (Oct. 2021- Jan. 2024)

Wenlong Li

Postdoc Fellow, Apr. 2024-

  • B.S. in Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University
  • Ph.D. in Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, China Agricultural University (transition from M.S.)

Xiaoyu Ma

Staff Scientist, Oct. 2022 -

  • M.S in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,Qiqihar University
  • B.S in Biology ,Qiqihar university

Luo Yan

Staff Scientist, Mar. 2023 -

  • B.S in Applied biological sciences, JiLin Agricultural University
  • M.S in Botany, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Huan Liu

Lab manager, Aug. 2024 -

  • B.S. in biopharmaceutical, Wenzhou Medical University
  • M.S. in pharmacy, Wenzhou Medical University

Yiheng Du

Staff Scientist, Jun. 2025 -

  • B.S. in Biology, Shandong University
  • M.S. in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics

PhD Students

Jinhong Lu

PhD student, Sept. 2021 -

  • B.S. in Biological Sciences, South China Agricultural University

Weixiang Wang

PhD student, Oct. 2021 -

  • B.S. in Biology, Northwest A&F University
  • M.S. in Physiology, Nanjing University

Qing Yang

PhD student, Feb. 2022 -

  • B.S. in Bioinformatics, Soochow University

Wenxuan Fan

PhD student, Jan. 2022 -

  • B.E. in Pharmaceutical Engineering, East China Univ. S&T

Chunyi Wang

PhD student, Nov. 2022 -

  • B.S. in Agronomy, Lanzhou University

Mengdie Yao

PhD student, Nov. 2022 -

  • B.S. in Mathematics with Applied Mathematics (2+2), The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China & The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
  • M.S. in Statistics (Data Science), Imperial College London
  • M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago

Zhirui Yang

PhD student, Nov. 2022 -

  • B.S. in Biotechnology, Northwest A&F University
  • M.S. in Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Northwest A&F University

Xing Wu

PhD student, Nov. 2023 -

  • B.Ec. in Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
  • M.S. in Statistics, Central South University

Lab visitors, BSc students

Bachelor Students

Baozheng Xu

Undergraduate Student, Sept. 2023-

Administrative Support

Yuxuan is helping us (and other groups) with administration.

Alumni

Yonghe Xia


Role: Staff Scientist, Apr. 2022- Agu. 2025

Zhen Xu


Role: Research Assistant, Nov. 2021-Mar. 2022

Lu Lu


Role: Visitor, Sept. 2021-Jun. 2022

Meiyue Hu


Role: Research Assistant, Nov. 2022-Feb. 2023

Yihang Ding


Role: Research Assistant, Jul. 2022-May. 2023

Guoqiang Jiang


Role: Lab manager, Oct. 2022-Feb. 2024

Yuanshi Wang


Role: Undergraduate Student, Sept. 2022- Sept. 2024