Zhou Lab

Events

Apr. 2024, we went to Beihai Park to spend an unforgettable spring outing. Boating in the rain has a different taste, just like the idiom "in the same boat under wind and rain (风雨同舟)"! We also enjoyed a dinner of Northeast cuisine together! Xin organized the enjoyable Outing Day event for the first time.
Mar. 2024, warmly welcome Changqing Zheng to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Mar. 2024, we celebrated birthdays of Qingyuan and Yiying. Happy birthday to the yong faces!
Feb. 2024, warmly welcome Ning Guo to join the lab as a master intern!
Jan. 2024, warmly welcome Yunchen Liu to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Jan. 2024, we celebrated birthdays of Jitao and Shengyi. Happy birthday to the boys!
Jan. 2024, we organized and participated in the joint New Year party in 2024 (with Haodong Chen and Xiaofeng Fang Lab) for welcoming the year of dragon. Thanks to Wu Limin and two other lab managers for their effort in organization. Everyone received a game prize and a companion gift. An unforgettable party! Our host Li Ziyi is cool! We rehearsed and sang a song for the first time, "Later (后来)"!

Dec. 2023, Check out the 2023 Resolution of Zhou Lab (only on cell phone) and Special Issue for 2023 at FateHub!
Nov. 2023, it's a great joy to have Dr. Zhen Liu from Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT), CAS, for an academic lecture in School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua! What a memorable academic feast! We sincerely thank the speaker and all organizers led by Yiying Yu, Limin Wu, Ying Liu.
Title: Primate Embryo Development and Stem Cell Research
Nov. 2023, we celebrated birthdays of Ying Liu, Chang Xu and Qian Li. Happy birthday to the young girls!
Oct. 2023, we celebrated birthday of Fan Zhou. Happy birthday to Fan!
Sep. 2023, warmly welcome Xin Hao to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Sep. 2023, we celebrated our three years' anniversary of Zhoulab! Ziyi and Yiying led the yearly work report and Xiangshan Hill hiking with the help and participation of all of the labmates!
Ziyi Li won the Best Science Presentation Award and the Best Logo Design Award simultaneously! Qingyuan Zhu was rewarded the Special Public Service Award!
Check out our poetry reading, Three years' poem and distance (三周年的诗与远方) produced and supported by Yiying and all of the lab members!
And please do reach out our must surf of Special Issue of Three Years Index and the Unforgettable Moments of Us!
Sep. 2023, warmly welcome Taiyu Chen to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Sep. 2023, at Teachers' Day, 'Teachers and Students Night Talk Concert' took us all to the sea of music and art!
Aug. 2023, warmly welcome Jiafang Liu to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Jul. 2023, we enjoyed our first barbecue and beer snack on a hot summer night! Haolin tried beer for the first time!
Jul. 2023, our first invited spotlight preview, 'Prolonged 3D culture unlocks black box of primate embryogenesis', is online at Cell Stem Cell. Huge congrats to Ziyi and Fan! Check out the paper in pdf!
Jun. 2023, we gave gifts and signed cards to Ms. Zhu Mei, who is about to retire from the college office. Ms. Zhu also gave us a nice retirement speech. Wish Mr. Zhu a happy retirement!
Jun. 2023, we had a great time at the National Speed Skating Oval for Outing Day. Everyone learned and enjoyed skating at Olympic speed, which was one of the coolest things happened in 40°C Beijing!
Jun. 2023, warmly congratulate Yiyuan on successfully completing the defense of his Thesis!
Jun. 2023, warmly welcome Manyun Sun to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
May 2023, we celebrate birthday for Limin, Ziyi and Yiying. Happy Birthday to the ladies!
May 2023, we are delighted to have Dr. Hongmei Wang from Institute of Zoology, CAS, for a wonderful academic lecture in School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua! We sincerely thank the speaker and all organizers led by Qian, Limin, Qingyuan, Jitao, Shengyi, Ziyi.
Title: Early Embryonic Development and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Mammals
May 2023, warmly welcome Haolin Fan to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
May 2023, Fan gave a special lecture on "Peri-implantation Embryo Development and Regulation" at the Cloud Development Forum.
Apr. 2023, our first collaborative work, 'Cynomolgus monkey embryo model captures gastrulation and early pregnancy', is online at Cell Stem Cell. Huge congrats to Qingyuan, Ying, Qian and all of the authors!
We congratulate and thank the teams of Dr. Zhen Liu and Dr. Qiang Sun from State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. What an amazing journey!
Check out the paper in pdf and News reported by Nature, Science, BioArt and FateHub!
Mar. 2023, warmly welcome Yiying Yu to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Mar. 2023, we are delighted to have Dr. Marta Shahbazi from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK, for a wonderful academic lecture in Frontiers in Biological Sciences at Tsinghua! We sincerely thank the speaker, discussion panelists Dr. Chun So and Dr. Meng Zhu, and the organizers led by Qian, Qingyuan, Ziyi, Jitao and Shengyi.
Title: Morphogenetic control of cellular differentiation during gastrulation.
Mar. 2023, the first hiking party, Outing Day led by Ziyi, happened! We had a great time to Beijing Olympic Forest Park for spring tour! We also had special and joyful dinner at an exotic restaurant named Zam Zam!
Mar. 2023, warmly welcome Tao Ran and Haoyuan Li to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Mar. 2023, warmly welcome Ziyi Li to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Mar. 2023, huge congratulations to Yiyuan for winning the admission to the Graduate Program of the Department of Biology at MIT!
Feb. 2023, we celebrate birthday of Qingyuan and Jitao. Happy birthday to the boys!
Jan. 2023, our first work, 'Decoding anterior-posterior axis emergence among mouse, monkey, and human embryos', is online at Developmental Cell. What a journey! Huge congrats to Qingyuan, Jitao, Ying and all of the authors!
We thank all of the labmates for supportive discussion and help during the lab launching. Let's keep going together!
Check out the paper in pdf and Chinese News reported by BioArt and FateHub!
Jan. 2023, we celebrate birthday of Shengyi and Qian. Happy birthday to them!

Dec. 2022, Check out the 2022 Resolution of Zhou Lab and Special Issue for 2022 at FateHub!
Dec. 2022, the new-round epidemic hit again. We set up an epidemic-prevention-supply team for preparing N95 masks, medicines, thermometers and other items for our labmates. Key members: Limin, Qingyuan, Jitao and Yiyuan. Shengyi and Jia-Wen also offered help! Together to overcome the difficulties!
Dec. 2022, congrats to Lin for finishing her postdoc training. She will join the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research scientist.
Oct. 2022, our labmates join Tsinghua Biomedical Frontier Forum-Development, Aging and Regeneration. Qingyuan, Jitao and Ying sucessfully gave their first poster presentation! Lin won her 'Best Oral Presentation Award'! Congrats to all of the presenters!
Oct. 2022, we celebrated birthday of Chang Xu and Fan Zhou. Happy birthday to Chang and Fan!
Sep. 2022, we celebrated the second anniversary of Zhoulab and had an unforgettable retreat!
Best Report: Lin Zhang;Best Performance: Jia-Wen Xu;Best Logo Design: Xiaoting Zhang, Qian Li, Jitao Ge and Mysterious
Host: Qian Li (report); Ying Liu and Shengyi Yan (entertainment program); Qingyuan Zhu (dinner)
Organizers: Qian Li, Chang Xu and Limin Wu
Everyone contributed and participated in the celebration!
Check out our lovely-moment video of Two Years' Anniversary!
Sep. 2022, warmly welcome Xiang Yu to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Sep. 2022, huge congratulations to Jinghan for successful election to Qinghua Xuetang Life Science Program!
Sep. 2022, the setup of the second high-performance computing server at Zhou Lab was completed! Welcome the new member and we named her Bepop!
Sep. 2022, congrats to Wenjia for her wonderful summer internship and summary report!
Aug. 2022, congrats to Zifan for successful undergraduate internship!
Aug. 2022, the very first human blastoid using stem cell at Zhoulab was generated!
Aug. 2022, we celebrated birthday of Ying Liu. Happy birthday to Ying!
Jul. 2022, warmly welcome Qian Li to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Jun. 2022, the very first Jounal Club for Undergraduates at Zhoulab (JCUZ) was held successfully via online/offline. Led by Zhixuan Xie. Guest reviewer: Yiyuan Huang. Presented by: Wenjia Zeng, Zhixuan Xie, Jinghan Zhao and Zifan Wang. Discussed literature: Basement membrane remodelling regulates mouse embryogenesis, Nature (2020).
May 2022, warmly welcome Wenjia Zeng to join our lab meeting as a guest student!
May 2022, huge congratulations to Li Pu for successful graduation thesis defense!
May 2022, we invited and hosted the first and wonderful academic lecture for Dr. Nicolas Rivron from Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with the Frontiers in Biological Sciences at Tsinghua!
Title: Blastoids: Shaping the mammalian embryo for implantation.
May 2022, warmly welcome Ying Liu and Chang Xu to join the Zhou Lab as PhD Students!
Apr. 2022, warmly welcome Jinfan Laiwang, Zhixuan Xie, Jinghan Zhao to join our lab meeting as guest students!
Apr. 2022, we go to the Summer Palace for our first spring tour!
Apr. 2022, congrats to Yiyuan for winning Students’ Research Training Fund at Tsinghua!
Mar. 2022, we celebrate birthday of Limin and Jia-Wen. Happy birthday to the ladies!
Feb. 2022, warmly welcome Xianze to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Jan. 2022, we celebrate birthdays of Qingyuan and Jitao. Happy birthday to the boys!
Jan. 2022, we join our first International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) online meeting!

Dec. 2021, Check out the 2021 Resolution of Zhou Lab and Special issue for 2021 at FateHub!
Dec. 2021, Fan summarized the 2021 of Zhoulab and we had an enjoyable time at our New Year dinner and party!
Dec. 2021, we celebrate birthdays of Lin, Shengyi and Yiyuan. Happy birthday to the young faces!
Oct. 2021, warmly welcome Li Pu to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Aug. 2021, warmly welcome Yiyuan to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Aug. 2021, warmly welcome Houzhen to join the lab as an undergraduate intern!
Aug. 2021, we summarize the progress of all the lab members and celebrate the first birthday of the Zhoulab!
Aug. 2021, warmly welcome Ying Liu to join the lab as a research intern!
May 2021, we successfully host the first Happy Hour in 2021 for the Tsinghua biomedical students and PIs!
May 2021, we celebrate birthday of Tianyi. Happy birthday to Tianyi!
Apr. 2021, huge congratulations to Lin and Jia-Wen for winning their CLS postdoctoral fellowship!
Apr. 2021, warmly welcome Jitao Ge to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Mar. 2021, we celebrate birthday of Limin and Jia-Wen. Happy birthday to the ladies!
Jan. 2021, warmly welcome Tianyi Zhang to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!
Jan. 2021, warmly welcome Shengyi Yan to join the Zhou Lab as a PhD Student!

Dec. 2020, warmly welcome Jia-Wen Xu to join the Zhou Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
Dec. 2020, Check out the 2020 Resolution of Zhou Lab at FateHub!
Oct. 2020, The WeChat Official Accounts of Zhou Lab, "FateHub", is now online! Fatehub aims to share latest research and lab news, as well as promote the litrature-reading and writing of the labmates. Follow us now!
Oct. 2020, warmly welcome Lin Zhang to join the Zhou Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
Sep. 2020, welcome the new member, the first high-performance computing server at Zhou Lab! We named her Akira!
Sep. 2020, warmly welcome Limin Wu to join Zhou Lab as an Administrative Assistant & Lab Manager!
Aug. 2020, setup of the Internet in the Zhou Lab is completed. We sincerely thank Shun Wang, the Chief Engineer and his colleague, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua.
Aug. 2020, warmly welcome Qingyuan Zhu to join Zhou Lab as a Research Assistant!
Aug. 2020, the Zhou Lab opens its doors!
Jun. 2020, Fan introduced the forthcoming lab to the community on Cell Stem Cell journal! Link
May 2020, warmly welcome Lijuan Wang to join the Zhou Lab as a Lab Manager (part-time) !
May 2020, the space renovation and decoration plan of the Zhou Lab were confirmed!