Lab photos
Lab photos
2026.04 Our two recent graduates, Bushrana and Fayrouz are featured by Spring 2026 edition of Illuminated magazine.
2026.04 Zoe received Undergraduate Global Research Grant and will do an intern at Emory University this summer.
2026.04 Zoe, Fayrouz, Bushrana, Sadia, and Bikram presented at Boland Research Day, Bikram and Fayrouz received 1st and 2nd place of oral presentation, and Zoe received Excellence in Research award.
2026.04 Fayrouz received the Outstanding Thesis in Science, Math, Technology and Computer Science for her MS thesis, "Directed Evolution to Enhance Phytoene Synthase Enzyme Activity for Metabolic Engineering".
2026.04 Zoe and Trent presented their research and iGEM project at the Tennessee State Capitol.
2026.04 Bushrana and Fayrouz will continue their journey in academia at UT Knoxville and Indiana University as PhD candidates.
2025.11 The first ETSU iGEM team shines at the Grand Jamboree in Paris! See more info
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 Kickstart the SUN plant synthetic biology lab at East Tennessee State University!