Stella Sun
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University of Pittsburgh
2050 Biomedical Science Tower 3
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Education & Training
Undergraduate
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
B.S. Life Sciences, 2004-2008
Postgraduate
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Research Scientist 2017-2021
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Postdoc Associate 2016-2017
Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Research Fellow 2014-2016
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D., in Biological Sciences 2008-2014
Selected Awards and Honors
2020 Stanford ChEM-H Seed Grant
2014 Young Scientist Travel Award, Kuo Symposium on 3D Cryo-EM Molecular Imaging
2011 Blackwell Poster Awards, 22nd Annual Molecular Parasitology Meeting
Representative Publications
Sun SY, Segev-Zarko L-A, Chen M, Pintilie GD, Schmid MF, Ludtke SJ, Boothroyd JC, Chiu W. Cryo-ET of Toxoplasma parasites gives subnanometer insight into tubulin-based structures [Internet]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111661119
Tierney W, Vicino I, Sun S, Chiu W, Engel E, Taylor M, Hogue I. Methods and Applications of Campenot Trichamber Neuronal Cultures for the Study of Neuroinvasive Viruses [Internet]. 2021. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0098.v1
Chen M, Bell JM, Shi X, Sun SY, Wang Z, Ludtke SJ. A complete data processing workflow for cryo-ET and subtomogram averaging. Nat Methods. 2019 Nov;16(11):1161–1168. PMCID: PMC6858567
Sun SY, Kaelber JT, Chen M, Dong X, Nematbakhsh Y, Shi J, Dougherty M, Lim CT, Schmid MF, Chiu W, He CY. Flagellum couples cell shape to motility in. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jun 26;115(26):E5916–E5925. PMCID: PMC6042131
Jin J, Galaz-Montoya JG, Sherman MB, Sun SY, Goldsmith CS, O’Toole ET, Ackerman L, Carlson L-A, Weaver SC, Chiu W, Simmons G. Neutralizing Antibodies Inhibit Chikungunya Virus Budding at the Plasma Membrane. Cell Host Microbe. 2018 Sep 12;24(3):417–428.e5. PMCID: PMC6137268
Chen M, Dai W, Sun SY, Jonasch D, He CY, Schmid MF, Chiu W, Ludtke SJ. Convolutional neural networks for automated annotation of cellular cryo-electron tomograms. Nat Methods. 2017 Oct;14(10):983–985. PMCID: PMC5623144
Luengo I, Darrow MC, Spink MC, Sun Y, Dai W, He CY, Chiu W, Pridmore T, Ashton AW, Duke EMH, Basham M, French AP. SuRVoS: Super-Region Volume Segmentation workbench. J Struct Biol. 2017 Apr;198(1):43–53. PMCID: PMC5405849
Li C, Zhang Y, Yang Q, Ye F, Sun SY, Chen ES, Liou Y-C. NuSAP modulates the dynamics of kinetochore microtubules by attenuating MCAK depolymerisation activity. Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 6;6:18773. PMCID: PMC4702128
Sun SY, Wang C, Yuan YA, He CY. An intracellular membrane junction consisting of flagellum adhesion glycoproteins links flagellum biogenesis to cell morphogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei. J Cell Sci. 2013 Jan 15;126(Pt 2):520–531. PMID: 23178943
Li F-J, Shen Q, Wang C, Sun Y, Yuan AY, He CY. A role of autophagy in Trypanosoma brucei cell death. Cell Microbiol. 2012 Aug;14(8):1242–1256. PMID: 22463696
Zhou Q, Liu B, Sun Y, He CY. A coiled-coil- and C2-domain-containing protein is required for FAZ assembly and cell morphology in Trypanosoma brucei. J Cell Sci. 2011 Nov 15;124(Pt 22):3848–3858. PMID: 22114307
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