2025.07 Mecry Mormor completed her Master's thesis defense. Congratulations!
2025.06 Bushrana was awarded Rotary International Global Grant Scholarship. Congratulations!
2025.06 Fayrouz presented her work at the annual meeting of Phytochemistry Society of North America in Toronto, Canada.
2025.05 We received $15,000 to develop plant platform for therapeutic protein production from ETSU Research Funding Program.
2025.04 The Sun Lab at ETSU was awarded New Innovator Award from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. Big shout out to our team!
2025.01 Bushrana Siddique was selected for ASPB Ambassador.
2024.07 We received $15,000 for tomato carotenoid research from ETSU Research Funding Program.
2024.04 We will work on colorful tomatoes with the support of CAS-Summer Research Award to Dr. Sun.
2024.01 Dr. Sun received ETSU-College of Arts and Sciences Scholarly Activity and Travel Award (2024).
2023.10 Graduate students Fayrouz and Bushara were admitted to Biology Master program. Congratulations!
2023.10 Undergraduate students Mase joined our lab. Welcome!
2023.09 Graduate student Mercy joined our lab. Welcome!
2023.08 Joined East Tennessee State University and kickstart SUN plant molecular and synthetic biology lab!