2025
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Chao and Silvia will teach the Cajal course Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology in July 2025 at the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, France.
April 1st, 2025
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Chao and Valentina will teach the Cold Spring Harbor Asia course Advanced Imaging Techniques in Neuroscience in June, 2025
April 1st, 2025
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Valentina received a DANEMO stipend to visit EMBL Heidelberg
March 31st, 2025
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The lab welcomes three new members: Vivek, Lars, and Markus!
Feb 7th, 2025​​
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Chao was invited to give a talk at the 2025 Synapse Biology in Health and Disease Symposium organized by the Core-to-Core Program and Neuroscience Academy of Denmark.
Jan 23th, 2025
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Erika is awarded a highly competitive international PhD fellowship from Neuroscience Academy Denmark, and has departed from Sun lab to start her PhD programme lab rotation! Congratulations!
Jan 8th, 2025
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We are opening a postdoc position to study the impact of toxic proteins on synaptic molecular homeostasis. Deadline: Jan 31st, 2025. Apply here
Jan 8th, 2025
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2024
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We received a grant (3M DKK) from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) to investigate the synaptic diversity in calcium regulation, a central signal for information processing in the brain!
October 29th, 2024
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Chao receives a Scientific Enrichment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation!
October 9th, 2024
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Erika receives a PhD screening grant from the Graduate School of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University!
September 9th, 2024
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Erika received a PhD fellowship from the Osk. Huttunen Foundation!
August 28th, 2024
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Silvia received a FENS and The Brain Prize stipend to attend the 2024 FENS Brain conference!
August 22nd, 2024
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Chao received a DANEMO fund to visit EMBL Heidelberg
​August 20th, 2024
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Silvia is invited to give a talk at the 2024 Nordic-EMBL partnership meeting in Oslo
August 20th, 2024
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Chao is invited to give a talk at the Blue Seminar in EMBL Heidelberg
August 15th, 2024
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Mads Rahbaek, a medical student of Aarhus University, will start his joint internship between us and the Human Cortex lab!
August 12th, 2024
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We are opening a postdoc position funded by PROMEMO & DANDRITE to study molecular homeostasis at synapses! Apply here
July 1st, 2024
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Silvia won the 2024 Marco Capogna Young Scientist Prize awarded by the board of Neurocampus Aarhus!
June 10th, 2024
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Erika Uddström from Stockholm University is joining the lab in August, 2024 as an intern supported by the Erasmus+ programme.
June 7th, 2024
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Chao will chair the FENS symposium Protein Turnover in Health and Disease together with Dr. Susana R. Louros from University of Edinburgh on June 27th, 2024 in Vienna, Austria
June 4th, 2024
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Markus completed his Bachelor's internship and will start his Master's study at Aarhus University!
May 31st, 2024
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Our lab officially joins the Center For Proteins in Memory (PROMEMO) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
May 13th, 2024
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Sara Derosa received a DANEMO stipend to visit EMBL!
April 26th, 2024
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We are looking for two collaborative postdocs to join the Nordic-EMBL partnership with potential NORPOD fellowships from NordForsk:
1. Postdoc position in neurobiology of sleep: link
2. Postdoc position in bioinformatics and machine learning: link
March 25th, 2024
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Silvia received a Postdoc Grant from the Lundbeck Foundation to study ubiquitin in Schizophrenia
March 25th, 2024
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A commentary article 'Observing a Protein in its Natural Habitat' from Chao and Prof. Poul Nissen is published in Materials Today Physics
March 25th, 2024
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Lotta Nele tom Dieck completed her Erasmus+ internship successfully and will start her Master's Degree study with the highly competitive IMPRS programme at University of Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
March 22rd, 2024
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Chao's Perspective article 'Single-molecule resolution Approaches in Synaptic Biology' is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry
March 22nd, 2024
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Valentina Villani from University of Pavia, Italy, is joining the lab as an intern supported by the Erasmus+ programme
March 1st, 2024
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Dr. Chao Sun will teach super-resolution microscopy during the 2024 neuroimaging course at the Max Planck Florida Institute For Neuroscience, USA
Feb 1st, 2024
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Markus Ørnsvig Christensen is joining the lab in February 2024 to conduct his Bachelor's thesis
January 3rd, 2024
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Lotta Nele tom Dieck from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, is joining the lab in January 2024 as an intern supported by the Erasumus+ programme
January 3rd, 2024
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2023
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The lab received its 1st grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
December 15, 2023
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Review article 'A multi-omics view of neuronal subcellular protein synthesis' published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
March 11, 2023
Sara Derosa is joining the lab in August, 2023 as an intern research assistant
June 29, 2023
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Tine Birch is joining the lab in August, 2023 as a lab technician
June 15, 2023
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Research article 'An abundance of free regulatory (19S) proteasome particles regulates neuronal synapses' accepted in Science
April 4, 2023
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Dr. Silvia Turchetto is joining the lab in November, 2023 as a postdoc fellow
March 11, 2023
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Kathrine M. Christensen is joining the lab in March, 2023 as a lab technician
December 22, 2022
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The Sun lab is hiring postdocs
Please apply here: link
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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The Sun lab will open in 2023 at DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark
August 20, 2022
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