October 2024
We had a Halloween lunch with fun games! Everybody swapped lab coats for costumes!
September 2024
We are excited to welcome our new rotation students to the lab!
Fenmiao Zhong, PhD student from BCMB program
Lea Barros, PhD student from Neuroscience program
Bojun Song, Master student from BMB program
September 2024
Physiology department Fun Day in Patterson Park
August 2024
Physiology department retreat
August 2024
Our lab celebrates a double achievement with TWO new publications within a month by Daoyuan (Dong et al., Sci. Signal.) and Rong (Wu et al., 2024, Neuron)! Congratulations to both for their outstanding works! !
August 2024
Farewell party for Yini at Gunpowder Galls State Park. Yini is joining the Borch Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Department at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor. We will miss you!!
August 2024
Niannian Xu joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
June 2024
CMP graduate student Yongxin Huang officially joins the Sun lab. Welcome!
May 2024
Congratulations to Shuxian on receiving the ALS Association-Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship!!
April 2024
Lab barbeque party at Gunpowder Galls State Park.
March 2024
Xiujuan and Zhe’s work “DDX3X overexpression decreases dipeptide repeat proteins in a mouse model of C9ORF72-ALS/FTD” is published in Experimental Neurology. Congratulations!
December 2023
Holiday Party
October 2023
Shuxian Zhang joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
October 2023
We moved to Hunterian 207.
September 2023
Gosia, Shaopeng and Daoyuan’s work on Single-molecule imaging reveals distinct elongation and frameshifting dynamics between frames of expanded RNA repeats in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD is published in Nature Communications. Great collaboration with the Wu lab from the Biophysics Department at Hopkins. Congratulations!
September 2023
Physiology Annual Retreat
August 2023
We published a review about translation dysregulation in ALS at Molecular Neurodegeneration. link
June 2023
Yini’s work “Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration” is published in Nature Neuroscience. Great collaboration with the He lab at the University of Chicago. Congratulations!
June 2023
Yini Li receives the Target ALS Springboard Postdoc Fellowship. Congratulations!
April 2023
Lab barbeque at Patapsco Valley State Park.
March 2023
Yingzhi Ye receives the Toffler Scholar Award for innovative thinking and research excellence. Congratulations!
January 2023
JHU Biotechnology Master student Scott Wei-Ren Wang joins the Sun lab. Welcome!
January 2023
Xiujuan’s farewell party
December 2022
Holiday Party
November 2022
Shuying and Zhe presented at the CSHL Neurodegenerative Diseases Biology & Therapeutics meeting.
October 2022
Farewell party for Shaopeng
September 2022
Zhe Zhang receives the Postdoc Development Grant from Muscular Dystrophy Association. Congratulations!
August 2022
Physiology fun day
August 2022
Physiology department retreat
July 2022
Congratulations to Yini on winning the 1st place of poster award at the Live Like Lou Symposium in Phoenix.
June 2022
CMM graduate student Nick Zhu joins the Sun lab. Welcome!
June 2022
Great time at the RNA Society meeting, Boulder.
April 2022
BBQ party at Brigton dam
March 2022
Great talk from Yini Li at the Hopkins RNA meeting
March 2022
Shuying talked at the Packard Symposium in Baltimore
December 2021
We escaped!
August 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. 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
January 2021
Mackenzie Kui started rotation in the Sun lab
December 2020
Sun lab virtual party
December 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
January 2020
Xiujuan Fu joins the lab as visiting student. Welcome!
January 2020
Shuying was invited to present at Northwestern University
December 2019
Lab holiday party
November 2019
Shuying presented at Brain Night.
October 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. Congratulations!
August 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.
February 2019
Shuying was invited to talk at the Translation Machinery in Health and Disease Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, TX.
November 2018
Shuying talked at the 5th RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease Conference in San Diego.
November 2018
Weiwei and Shaopeng presented posters at the RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease Conference
October 2018
Yini Li joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
October 2018
Shuying talked at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) Annual Retreat in University of Pennsylvania
August 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
January 2018
The Sun lab receives funding from ALS Association. Many thanks for the support!
January 2018
Weiwei’s paper is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
December 2017
Sun and Qiu labs holiday party
December 2017
Daoyuan Dong joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
December 2017
Weiwei presented a poster at the International Symposium on MND/ALS in Boston.
October 2017
The Sun and Wu lab receive a Discovery Fund for Synergy Award. Many thanks to JHU School of Medicine!
October 2017
Shirui Yan joins the lab as a technician. Welcome!
October 2017
Yongzhi Xie joins the lab as a visiting student. Welcome!
September 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
January 2017
The Sun lab receives funding for Young Investigator-led Collaborative Project from Target ALS. Many thanks!
December 2016
Sun and Qiu labs holiday party
December 2016
Shaopeng Wang joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
November 2016
Shuying is invited to talk at the CSHL Asia RNA Biology meeting in Suzhou, China
October 2016
Weiwei Cheng joins the lab as the first postdoc. Welcome!
September 2016
Shuying receives Packard fellowship. Many thanks to Robert Packard Center for ALS Research!
