People

Here is a list of all lab members.
To see a photo album of the lab, go to this page.
For photos and details of former lab members, see this page.

The PI

Jackson Champer was born in 1986 in New York City. He received a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Oregon and a M.S. in physics from UCLA. Jackson then switched his focus to biology, receiving a Ph.D. from City of Hope Beckman Research Institute in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University with Philipp Messer and Andrew Clark from May 2016 until March 2021. Jackson opened a lab at Peking University in late May 2021.
email: jchamper@pku.edu.cn
Jackson Champer's CV
Postdoctoral Researchers
Jie Du earned her PhD during 2014-2020 at the Institute of Zoology in the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She joined the Champer lab at Peking University in December 2020 and formally started when the lab opened in May 2021.
Xuejiao Xu majored in Agriculture Entomology and Pest Management in Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. During 2019 to 2021, she studied in the Pirbirght Institute in the UK as a visiting student, testing a CRISPR-based split drive system in the economically important agricultural pest Plutella xylostella. She joined the Champer Lab in July 2021 shortly after obtaining her PhD.
Graduate Students
Yiran Liu obtained a master’s degree studying at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2017 to 2020, majoring in Invasion Biology. She joined the Champer lab in April 2021 and formally started in May 2021. Yiran Liu officially entered the Peking University SLS graduate program in 2023.
Weizhe Chen majored in Biological Science at Ocean University. She joined the lab in December 2021 for her undergraduate thesis. She continued in the lab as a PhD student for the 2022 PTN program class.
Ruobing Feng majored in biotechnology at Ocean University. She is a PhD student in the 2022 SLS graduate program.
Xinyue Zhang majored in bioinformatics at Harbin Institute of Technology. She is a PhD student in the 2022 SLS graduate program.
Yingke Wu majored in plant protection at Nanjing Agricultural University. She is a PhD student in the 2022 SLS graduate program.
Jialiang Guo earned his master's degree from Imperial College London. He has joined the Champer Lab in October 2022 and began the PTN graduate program in 2024.
Jinyu Zhu received a B.Eng. in Bioinformatics from Peking University. He joined the Champer Lab as an undergraduate researcher in October 2022. He is a PhD student in the 2024 CLS program. Personal Website: https://jyzhu-pointless.github.io
Other Postgraduate Lab Members
Xihua Jia obtained a Ph.D. in the Institute of Biological Engineering, Beijing. She then received 8 months of postdoctoral training in McGill University before working as a research scientist in Chronogen R&D, Canada until 2007. During past ten years, she worked in PKU as a research technician. Jia joined the Champer lab in July 2021.

Additional Lab Members

Postdocs: Jie Yang, Christopher Kruger (joint with Bo Zhang's lab)
Graduate Students: Nicky Faber (co-advised, based at Wageningen University), Xiaozhen Yang (long-term visiting M.S. student from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University), Yue Han
Undergraduates: Jiahe "Carol" Li, Weitang Sun, Yuqi Zhang, Chengwei Shi, Ziye Wang, Peixin Wu, Ziyin Yao
Other Lab Members: Xiaokuan Wang, Yang Zhang, Yuna Cho


A monument (to molecular biology?) built by students of Jackson Champer during summer 2011.