Chief Scientist: WU Jie
Brief introduction of Chief Scientist:
Dr. & Prof. Wu Jie , Ph.D. Supervisor
Chief Scientist of China Apiculture Research System,
President of Apicultural Science Association of China, Director of Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology，Ministry of Agriculture，P. R. China
Principal Investigator for four projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Principal Investigator for more than 10 projects of National Science and Technology Research.
Education Backgroud:
Ph.D., 2009, Special economic animal breeding ; Zhejiang University
M.S., 1997, Entomology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
B.S., 1984, Apiculture, Fujian Agricultural college
Objectives:
1) Exploring the main influence factors of native bumblebee artificial rearing and the diversity and function of enternic microorganism;
2) Understanding the molecular mechanism of reproductive regulation of bumblebee;
3) Assessing the economic contribution of bee pollination in China.
Research Focus:
1) Honeybee and bumblebee pollination biology;
2) Bee pollinators factory breeding and application research;
3) Diversity and abundance of bee pollinator enternic microorganism.
Team members:
CHEN Lihong;
LI Jilian;
LI Haiyan;
HUANG Jiaxing;
CHEN Yanping;
LIU Pengfei;
FANG Bingbing
Achievements:
1. Li JL, Powell J E, Guo J, Evans J D, Wu J, Williams PH, Lin QH,  Moran N A, Zhang ZG. (2015). Two gut community enterotypes recur in diverse bumblebee species. Current Biology,25(15): R652-R653.
2. Huang J. A. A. J. (2015).Extreme Food-Plant Specialisation in Megabombus Bumblebees as a Product of Long Tongues Combined with Short Nesting Seasons. PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(8): e132358.
3. Huang J, Wu J, An J, Williams PH. (2015). Newly discovered colour-pattern polymorphism of Bombus koreanus females (Hymenoptera: Apidae) demonstrated by DNA barcoding. Apidologie,  46(2): 250-261.
4. Guo J, Wu J, Chen YP, Evans JD, Dai R, Luo W, Li JL. (2015). Characterization of gut bacteria at different developmental stages of Asian honey bees, Apis cerana. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 127:110–114.