# overview
Dr. Sun's research focuses on synthetic biology with advancing designs and applications. Using expertise in molecular engineering, protein engineering, and microbial consortia engineering, to develop new techniques to reprogram gut microbiome, protein machinery and biomaterials. Our current application areas include health, environment and energy. Her research interests are synthetic biology with focus on protein engineering, genetic circuits design and biomaterial development for environmental and biomedical applications.

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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University of Delaware - (Newark, Delaware, United States)

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Tsinghua University - (Beijing, Beijing, China)

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Biological Assembly of Modular Protein Building Blocks as Sensing, Delivery, and Therapeutic Agents.

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Engineering protein modules for diagnostic applications

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Synthetic scaffolds for pathway enhancement.

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Enhancing nutritional niche and host defenses by modifying the gut microbiome.

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Bioengineering strategies to generate artificial protein complexes.

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Artificial scaffolds for enhanced biocatalysis.

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Advances in consolidated bioprocessing using synthetic cellulosomes.

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RNAdegformer: accurate prediction of mRNA degradation at nucleotide resolution with deep learning.

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HaloTag mediated artificial cellulosome assembly on a rolling circle amplification DNA template for efficient cellulose hydrolysis.

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Microbiota-derived metabolites in regulating the development and physiology of Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Nucleic Transformer: Classifying DNA Sequences with Self-Attention and Convolutions

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RNAdegformer: accurate prediction of mRNA degradation at nucleotide resolution with deep learning

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A peek in the micro-sized world: a review of design principles, engineering tools, and applications of engineered microbial community.

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Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly.

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Fluorescent protein-based molecular beacons by zinc finger protein-guided assembly.

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Dynamic protein assembly by programmable DNA strand displacement.

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Creation of artificial cellulosomes on DNA scaffolds by zinc finger protein-guided assembly for efficient cellulose hydrolysis.

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Biomolecular scaffolds for enhanced signaling and catalytic efficiency.

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Ligand-Induced Cross-Linking of Z-Elastin-like Polypeptide-Functionalized E2 Protein Nanoparticles for Enhanced Affinity Precipitation of Antibodies.

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Positional assembly of enzymes on bacterial outer membrane vesicles for cascade reactions.

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Engineering bacteria to program animal behavior and lipid metabolism

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Programming gene expression in multicellular organisms for physiology modulation through engineered bacteria.

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Texas A&M researchers developing mRNA vaccine platform to boost temperature resistance