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SUN,YUH-JU

孫玉珠

Professor

Fields of specialty

Structural Biology, Protein Chemistry,

X-ray diffraction & Protein Crystallography

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology,

National Tsing Hua University,

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Phone: (03) 574-2486

Fax: (03) 571-5934

E-mail: yjsun@life.nthu.edu.tw

Sun,Yuh-Ju: Lab Members

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014-Present Director

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2009-Present Professor

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2004-2009 Associate Professor

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2004-2009 Associate Professor

 

Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2000-2004 Assistant Professor

Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
1995-2000 Postdoctoral

Institute of Molecular Biology Academia Sinica, Nankang Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan.

AWARDS AND HONOR

2013 MOST Outstanding Research Awards (科技部傑出研究獎)
2012 Sun Yat Sen Academic and Cultural Award (中山學術著作獎)
2013 Yu- Ziang Hsu Scientific Paper Award (有庠科技論文獎)
2010-2019 NTHU Academic excellence Award (清華大學教師學術卓越獎勵)
2013 & 2019 NTHU Outstanding academic research publishing award (清華大學生科院傑出學術論文獎)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Chen-Hsi Chu, Cheng-Yi Yen, Bo-Wei Chen, Min-Guan Lin, Lyu-Han Wang,Kai-Zhi Tang, Chwan-Deng Hsiao and Yuh-Ju Sun*. “Crystal structures of HpSoj–DNA complexes and the nucleoid-adaptor complex formation in chromosome segregation” Nucleic Acids Research (2019), Vol. 47, 2113–2129
     

  2. Kun-Mou Li, Craig Wilkinson, Juho Kellosalo, Jia-Yin Tsai, Tommi Kajander, Lars Jeuken, Yuh-Ju Sun*, and Adrian Goldman* “Membrane pyrophosphatases from Thermotoga maritima and Vigna radiata suggest a conserved coupling mechanism” Nature Communications (2016) 7:13596.
     

  3. Bo-Wei Chen, Ming-Hsing Lin, Chen-Hsi Chu, Chia-En Hsu, and Yuh-Ju Sun* (2015) “Insights into ParB spreading from the complex structure of Spo0J and parS” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112 (21), 6613-6618.
     

  4. Jia-Yin Tsai, Juho Kellosalo, Yuh-Ju Sun* and Adrian Goldman (2014) Proton/sodium pumping pyrophosphatases: the last of the primary ion pumps Current Opinion in Structural Biology 27:38–47.
     

  5. Lin, S.-M. Tsai, J.-Y., Hsiao, C.-D., Huang, Y.-T., Chiu, C.-L., Liu, M.-H. Tung, J.-Y., Liu, T.-H., Pan, R.-L. & Sun Y.-J.* (2012) Crystal Structure of a Membrane-embedded H+-translocating Pyrophosphatase. Nature 484,  399-403.

EDUCATION

1995  Ph.D.   Crystallography Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. U.S.A.

1987  M.S.     Chemistry Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. U. S. A.

1982  B.S.      ​Chemistry Department, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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