Fei Sun
Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
1997 - 2001 Nanjing University, China, B.Sc. in Biophysics 2001 - 2006 Tsinghua University, China, Ph.D. in Biophysics 2006 - Principal Investigator, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chief scientist and director, Center for Biological Imaging, Core Facilities for Protein Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 1997 - 2001 Nanjing University, China, B.Sc. in Biophysics 2001 - 2006 Tsinghua University, China, Ph.D. in Biophysics 2006 - Principal Investigator, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chief scientist and director, Center for Biological Imaging, Core Facilities for Protein Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Research Interest
Our research interests are mainly related with the structures and functions of biological macromolecules including membrane proteins and supra macromolecular assemblies. And the aim of our group is to combine various structural research approaches (majorly crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM)) as well as developing new methodologies to determine the architecture of the biological system, in vitro and in vivo, from nano-scale to meso-scale. In the next five years, we will focus on (i) molecular mechanism of mitochondrial and bio-membrane dynamics, (ii) structure and function of supra macromolecular assembly and (iii) methodology development orientating to biological imaging.
Publications
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Chen R., Gao B., Liu, X., Ruan F., Zhang Y., Lou J., Feng K., Wunsch C., Li S.M., Dai J.* and Sun F.* (2016), Molecular insights into the enzyme promiscuity of an aromatic prenyltransferase. Nature Chemical Biology (Advanced online at Dec. 19, 2016)
