2006/7 - Present - Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
2012/7 - Present - Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Director of Biological Imaging Center
Beishizhang Young Biophysicist Award (2009): Other
National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award (2008): National
Outstanding Young Person of Central State Organs (2008): National
Research
Cryo-electron microscopy 3D reconstruction Structure and function of biological macromolecular complexes and membrane proteins Molecular mechanisms of biological membranes dynamics
Using integrated correlative cryo-light and electron microscopy to directly observe syntaphilin-immobilized neuronal mitochondria in situ, Wang S., Li S., Ji G., Huang X. and Sun F., 2017
Accelerating electron tomography reconstruction algorithm ICON with GPU, Chen Y., Wang Z., Zhang J., Li L., Wan X., Sun F., and Zhang F., 2017
Structural insight into the specific DNA template binding to DnaG primase in Bacteria, Zhou Y., Lou H., Liu Z., Yang M., Pang X., Sun F. and Wang G., 2017
Molecular details of the PH domain of ACAP1BAR-PH protein binding to PIP-containing membrane, Chan K.C., Lu L., Sun F., Fan J., 2017
Molecular insights into the enzyme promiscuity of an aromatic prenyltransferase, Chen R., Gao B., Liu, X., Ruan F., Zhang Y., Lou J., Feng K., Wunsch C., Li S.M., Dai J. and Sun F., 2017
Structural insights into Ca2+ -activated long-range allosteric channel gating of RyR1, Wei R., Wang X., Zhang Y., Mukherjee S., Zhang L., Chen Q., Huang X., Jing S., Liu C., Li S., Wang G., Xu Y., Zhu S., Williams A., Sun F. and Yin C.C., 2016
Structural characterization of coatomer in its cytosolic state, Wang S., Zhai Y., Pang X., Niu T., Ding Y.H., Dong, M.Q., Hsu W.V. Sun Z. and Sun F., 2016
FIRT: filtered iterative reconstruction technique with information restoration, Chen Y., Zhang Y., Zhang K., Deng Y., Zhang F. and Sun F., 2016
ICON: 3D reconstruction with ‘missing-information’ restoration in biological electron tomography, Deng Y., Chen Y., Zhang Y., Wang S., Zhang F. and Sun F., 2016
An improved cryo-FIB method for fabrication of frozen hydrated lamella, Zhang J., Ji G., Huang X., Xu W. and Sun F., 2016
Three-dimensional visualization of arsenic stimulated mouse liver sinusoidal by FIB-SEM approach, Li W., Ding W., Ji G., Zhang J. and Sun F., 2016
A local-optimization refinement algorithm in single particle analysis for macromolecular complex with multiple rigid modules, Shan H., Wang Z., Zhang F., Xiong Y., Yin C.C. and Sun F., 2016
Crystal structure of E. coli lipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase, Mao G., Zhao Y., Kang X., Li Z., Zhang Y., Wang X., Sun F., Sankaran, K., and Zhang, X.C., 2016
A novel mitochondrial carrier protein Mme1 acts as a yeast mitochondrial magnesium exporter, Cui Y., Zhao S., Wang J., Gao B., Fan Q., Sun F. and Zhou B., 2015
Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Drives Heat Adaptation by Sequestering Fatty Acids, Ma D.K., Li Z., Lu A.Y., Sun F., Chen S., Rothe M., Menzel R., Sun F. and Horvitz HR., 2015
Expression, purification, crystallization and crystallographic study of the Aspergillus terreus acromatic prenyltransferase AtaPT, Gao B., Chen R., Liu X., Dai J. and Sun F., 2015
BrkAutoDisplay: functional display of multiple exogenous proteins on the surface of Escherichia coli by using BrkA autotransporter, Sun F., Pang X., Xie T., Zhai Y., Wang G.G. and Sun F., 2015
Three-dimensional super-resolution protein localization correlated with vitrified cellular context, Liu B., Xue Y., Zhao W., Chen Y., Fan C., Gu L., Zhang Y., Sun L., Huang X., Ding W., Sun F., Ji W. and Xu T., 2015
A novel fully automatic scheme for fiducial marker-based alignment in electron tomography, Han R., Wang L., Liu Z., Sun F. and Zhang F., 2015
A PH Domain in ACAP1 Possesses Key Features of the BAR Domain in Promoting Membrane Curvature, Pang X., Fan J., Zhang Y., Zhang K., Gao B., Ma J., Li J., Deng Y., Zhou Q., Egelman E.H., Hsu V.W. and Sun F., 2014
Dimerization interface of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase tunes the formation of its catalytic intermediate, Xu Y., Li H., Jin YH., Fan J. and Sun F., 2014
Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of the cytoplasmic domain of the mitochondrial dynamics protein MiD51, Ma J. and Sun F., 2014
Puzzle out the regulation mechanism of PI4KIIα activity, Sun F., Li J. and Chen C., 2014
Molecular insights into the membrane-associated phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase IIα, Zhou Q., Li J., Yu H., Zhai Y., Gao Z., Liu Y., Pang X., Zhang L., Schulten K., Sun F. and Chen C., 2014
C-terminal motif within Sec7 domain regulates guanine nucleotide exchange activity via tuning protein conformation, Qiu B., Zhang K., Wang S., Sun F., 2014
A marker-free automatic alignment method based scale-invariant features, Han R., Zhang F., Wan X., Fernandez J.J., Sun F. and Liu Z., 2014
Cryo-EM structures of two bovine adenovirus type 3 intermediates, Cheng, L., Huang, X., Li, X., Xiong, W., Sun, W., Yang, C., Zhang, K., Wang, Y., Liu, H., Huang, X., Ji, G., Sun F., Zheng, C. and Zhu, P., 2014
Electron Microscopy Reconstruction of Helical Assemblies, Zhang, Y., and Sun F., 2013
Revealing various coupling of electron transfer and proton pumping in mitochondrial respiratory chain, Sun F., Zhou Q., Pang X., Xu Y. and Rao Z., 2013
Flexible interweaved termini determine the thermal stability of thermosomes, Zhang K., Wang L., Liu Y., Chan K.Y., Pang X., Schulten K., Dong Z. and Sun F., 2013
Structural insights into the intrinsic self-assembly of Par-3 N-terminal domain, Zhang Y., Wang W., Chen J., Zhang K., Gao F., Gao B., Zhang S., Dong M., Besenbacher F., Gong W., Zhang M., Sun F. and Feng W., 2013
Research of Mitochondrial Calcium Transportation, Lu J., Zhai Y. and Sun F., 2013
Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase from Caenorhabditis elegans, Xu Y. and Sun F., 2013
Expression, purification and preliminary characterization of glucagon receptor extracellular domain, Wu L., Zhai Y., Lu J., Wang Q. and Sun F., 2013
Changes in the quaternary structure and function of MjHSP16.5 attributable to deletion of the I-X-I motif and introduction of the substitution, R107G in the alpha-crystallin domain, Quinlan R., Zhang Y., Lansbury A., Williamson I., Pohl E. and Sun F., 2013
Atomic model of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus by cryo-electron microscopy and crystallography, Wang X., Xu F., Liu J., Gao B., Liu Y., Zhai Y., Ma J., Zhang K., Baker T.S., Schulten K., Zheng D., Pang H. and Sun F., 2013
Coexistence of ribbon and helical fibrils originating from hIAPP20-29 revealed by quantitative nanomechanical atomic force microscopy, Zhang S., Andreasen M., Nielsen J.T., Liu L., Nielsen E.H., Song J., Ji G., Sun F., Skrydstrup T., Besenbacher F., Nielsen N.C., Otzen D.E and Dong M., 2013
Identification of SERPINB1 as a physiological inhibitor of human granzyme H, Wang L., Li Q., Wu L., Liu S., Zhang Y., Yang X., Zhu P., Zhang H., Zhang K., Lou J., Liu P., Tong L., Sun F. and Fan Z., 2013
MicroRNA-124 reduces caveolar density by targeting caveolin-1 in porcine kidney epithelial PK15 cells, Yang S., Liu X., Li, X., Sun S.F., Sun F., Fan B., and Zhao S., 2013
Contrast Transfer Function Correction Model Based on Sine and Gaussian Modulation and Spline Interpolation, Wang G., Zhang F., Fan L., Sun F. and Liu, Z., 2013
A fast calculation strategy of density function in ISAF reconstruction algorithm, Wang G., Zhang F., Fan L., Sun F. and Liu, Z., 2013
Area of Focus
Electron Microscopy | Sem | Tem | Ultrathin Sectioning | Biological Imaging | Arabidopsis | Male Reproductive | Plant Biology | Developmental Biology | Microscopy Techniques
Area of Focus
Electron Microscopy | Sem | Tem | Ultrathin Sectioning | Biological Imaging | Arabidopsis | Male Reproductive Development | Plant Biology | Microscopy Techniques | Reproductive Genetics
