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!