2026
We held probably the largest Tiramisu Competition in Aarhus for our 3rd-year lab anniversary!
See here for an in-depth analysis of the event.
Feb 27th, 2026
Sauhardra started his Master's degree course project in the lab!
Feb 20th, 2026
Silvia is selected to present her work at the Neuro Winter Summit 2026 in Hokkaido, Japan!
Feb 16th, 2026
Follow Markus from our lab for a virtual lab tour here
January 30th, 2026
Pritakshi started her research assistantship in the lab!
January 19th, 2026
2025
We received ~5M DKK research grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) Research Theme- Psychiatry, together with Prof. Esben Lorentzen
December 17th, 2025
Professor Tong Tong, an experienced electrophysiologist from Aalborg University, will join the lab as Guest Researcher in Janaury, 2026
December 9th, 2025
We are opening an ERC-funded postdoc position in 2026. Apply here by Dec 3rd, 2025
November 28th, 2025
Lars Boye Brandt defended his Master's thesis with flying colours!
November 27th, 2025
Dr. Lucas Rodrigues-Ribeiro just started his postdoc research into neuropeptides with the lab!
October 6th, 2025
Silvia received a poster award at the scientific advisory board meeting of the Center for Proteins In Memory, a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence!
September 24th, 2025
Our lab just received an ERC Starting Grant to study protein quality control at neuronal synapses!
September 4th, 2025
The first collaborative work of Valentina led by Rangaraju lab at Max Planck Florida Institute For Neuroscience is now on bioRxiv, where we addressed how brain energy metabolism adapts to our learning needs.
August 28th, 2025
Our lab just received the Novo Nordisk Grant for access to the Gefion AI Supercomputer- one of the world's most powerful supercomputers!
August 25th, 2025
Signe, a medical student at Aarhus University, started her research internship with us!
August 11th, 2025
We have just opened up a Fully Funded Postdoc Position to study how proteins involved in the energy metabolism support brain synapses. Deadline: Aug 11th, 2025. Apply here
June 24th, 2025
Our lab just received the prestigious DFF Sapere Aude grant, which recognises emerging Danish research leaders from all walks of life!
See here for instituional press release
June 24th, 2025
Chao & Silvia organized the 1st AU Laboratory Leadership Workshop with trainers who helped create the EMBO Lab Leadership course, supporting AU PIs and research teams from diverse backgrounds. Thanks for the support of Lundbeck Foundation Scientific Enrichment grant and AU.
June 16th, 2025
Dr. Melisa Faydaver has joined the lab as a shared postdoc with Jensen lab to investigate synaptic protein toxicity in Parkinson's Disease.
May 1st, 2025
Chao was invited to give a talk at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan
April 25th, 2025
Chao was invited to give a talk at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
April 18th, 2025
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
Chao and Valentina will teach the Cold Spring Harbor Asia course Advanced Imaging Techniques in Neuroscience in June, 2025
April 1st, 2025
Valentina received a DANEMO stipend to visit EMBL Heidelberg
March 31st, 2025
The lab welcomes three new members: Vivek, Lars, and Markus!
Feb 7th, 2025
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
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
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
2024
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
Chao receives a Scientific Enrichment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation!
October 9th, 2024
Erika receives a PhD screening grant from the Graduate School of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University!
September 9th, 2024
Erika received a PhD fellowship from the Osk. Huttunen Foundation!
August 28th, 2024
Silvia received a FENS and The Brain Prize stipend to attend the 2024 FENS Brain conference!
August 22nd, 2024
Chao received a DANEMO fund to visit EMBL Heidelberg
August 20th, 2024
Silvia is invited to give a talk at the 2024 Nordic-EMBL partnership meeting in Oslo
August 20th, 2024
Chao is invited to give a talk at the Blue Seminar in EMBL Heidelberg
August 15th, 2024
Mads Rahbaek, a medical student of Aarhus University, will start his joint internship between us and the Human Cortex lab!
August 12th, 2024
We are opening a postdoc position funded by PROMEMO & DANDRITE to study molecular homeostasis at synapses! Apply here
July 1st, 2024
Silvia won the 2024 Marco Capogna Young Scientist Prize awarded by the board of Neurocampus Aarhus!
June 10th, 2024
Erika Uddström from Stockholm University is joining the lab in August, 2024 as an intern supported by the Erasmus+ programme.
June 7th, 2024
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
Markus completed his Bachelor's internship and will start his Master's study at Aarhus University!
May 31st, 2024
Our lab officially joins the Center For Proteins in Memory (PROMEMO) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
May 13th, 2024
Sara Derosa received a DANEMO stipend to visit EMBL!
April 26th, 2024
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
Silvia received a Postdoc Grant from the Lundbeck Foundation to study ubiquitin in Schizophrenia
March 25th, 2024
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
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
Chao's Perspective article 'Single-molecule resolution Approaches in Synaptic Biology' is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry
March 22nd, 2024
Valentina Villani from University of Pavia, Italy, is joining the lab as an intern supported by the Erasmus+ programme
March 1st, 2024
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
Markus Ørnsvig Christensen is joining the lab in February 2024 to conduct his Bachelor's thesis
January 3rd, 2024
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
2023
The lab received its 1st grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
December 15, 2023
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
Tine Birch is joining the lab in August, 2023 as a lab technician
June 15, 2023
Research article 'An abundance of free regulatory (19S) proteasome particles regulates neuronal synapses' accepted in Science
April 4, 2023
Dr. Silvia Turchetto is joining the lab in November, 2023 as a postdoc fellow
March 11, 2023
Kathrine M. Christensen is joining the lab in March, 2023 as a lab technician
December 22, 2022
The Sun lab is hiring postdocs
Please apply here: link
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Sun lab will open in 2023 at DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark
August 20, 2022