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Aug 2021                 Shaopeng’s work “Nuclear export and translation of circular repeat-containing intronic RNA in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD” is                                                     published in Nature Communications. Great collaboration with the Wu lab at Biophysics Department, using                                                                   single molecule technique to address disease mechanisms. Congratulations!

July 2021                 Shuying is promoted to Associate Professor

June 2021                BBQ party at Greenbrier

May 2021                The Sun lab receives R21 funding from NIA

April 2021                Shaopeng (1st place!) and Yini won the Excellence in BASIC RESEARCH Award in the 2021 Pathology Young Investigators’ Day.                                  Congratulations!

March 2021              Zhe and Ben (Rothstein lab)’s work “UPF1 reduces C9orf72 HRE0induced neurotoxicity in the absence of nonsense-mediated                                       decay dysfunction” is published in Cell Reports. Link   Congratulations!

March 2021              Zhe Zhang receives the Toffler Scholar Award for innovative thinking and research excellence. Congratulations!

March 2021              Shaopeng’s poster won the runner-up prize at the Packard Symposium. Congratulations!

March 2021              Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore

Jan 2021                   Mackenzie Kui started rotation in the Sun lab

Dec 2020                  Sun lab virtual party

Dec 2020                  Shaopeng presented at the CSHL Neurodegeneration meeting

July 2020                  Shuying receives the JHU Catalyst Award

June 2020                 CMP graduate student Yingzhi officially joins the Sun lab. Welcome!

May 2020                  Shuying presented at the Michael J Fox Foundation Workshop

May 2020                  Shuying gave a webinar at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network

March 2020               Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore

Jan 2020                   Xiujuan Fu joins the lab as visiting student. Welcome!

Jan 2020                   Shuying was invited to present at Northwestern University

Dec 2019                   Lab holiday party

Nov 2019                  Shuying presented at Brain Night.

Oct 2019                   Weiwei and Shaopeng’s work “CRISPR-Cas9 Screens Identify the RNA Helicase DDX3X as a Repressor of C9ORF72                                                   (GGGGCC)n Repeat-Associated Non-AUG Translation” is published in Neuron. Link   Congratulations!

Aug 2019                  Lab hiking in the Great Falls Park, with Qiu lab.

   

June 2019                 Zhe Zhang receives the Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship from ALS Association. Congratulations!

May 2019                  Rong Wu joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

May 2019                  The Sun lab participated in the Fiesta 5K for ALS research

May 2019                  Shuying talked at the Target ALS annual meeting in Boston

April 2019                 Weiwei Cheng won the Excellence in BASIC RESEARCH Award in the 2019 Pathology Young Investigators’ Day poster session.                                    Congratulations!

March 2019              Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore

Feb 2019                  Shuying was invited to talk at the Translation Machinery in Health and Disease Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, TX

Nov 2018                  Shuying talked at the 5th RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease Conference in San Diego

Nov 2018                  Weiwei and Shaopeng presented posters at the RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease Conference

Oct 2018                   Yini Li joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

Oct 2018                   Shuying talked at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) Annual Retreat in University of Pennsylvania

Aug 2018                  Shuying talked and Shaopeng presented a poster at the LiveLikeLou Foundation Emerging ALS Investigators Symposium at the                                    University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute

July 2018                  The Sun lab receives R01 funding from NINDS

June 2018                 The Sun lab had a bowling party

June 2018                 Zhe Zhang joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

May 2018                  Shuying talked at the Target ALS meeting in Boston

March 2018               Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore

Jan 2018                   The Sun lab receives funding from ALS Association. Many thanks for the support!

Jan 2018                   Weiwei’s paper is published in Nature Communications. link   Congratulations!

Dec 2017                   Sun and Qiu labs holiday party

Dec 2017                   Daoyuan Dong joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

Dec 2017                   Weiwei presented a poster at the International Symposium on MND/ALS in Boston.

Oct 2017                    The Sun and Wu lab receive a Discovery Fund for Synergy Award. link   Many thanks to JHU School of Medicine!

Oct 2017                    Shirui Yan joins the lab as a technician. Welcome!

Oct 2017                    Yongzhi Xie joins the lab as a visiting student. Welcome!

Sept 2017                   Kamsi Odinammadu joins the lab for rotation. Welcome!

May 2017                   Shuying talked at the Target ALS meeting in Boston

March 2017                Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore

Jan 2017                     The Sun lab receives funding for Young Investigator-led Collaborative Project from Target ALS. Many thanks!

Dec 2016                    Sun and Qiu labs holiday party

Dec 2016                     Shaopeng Wang joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

Nov 2016                     Shuying is invited to talk at the CSHL Asia RNA Biology meeting in Suzhou, China

Oct 2016                       Weiwei Cheng joins the lab as the first postdoc. Welcome!

Sept 2016                     Shuying receives Packard fellowship. Many thanks to Robert Packard Center for ALS Research!