Postdoc at IFFS in UESTC, Supervisor: Prof. Quan Zou
Interests: Implementing AI to uncover the mechanisms underlying stress resistance in organisms, especially plants.
Eduction
10/2014-04/2019
University of Bayreuth, Germany - Ph.D.
09/2010-07/2014
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - M.Sc.
09/2006-07/2010
Northeast Normal University, China - B.Sc.
Publications
2020
Sun S, Dong B*, Zou Q*. Revisiting genome-wide association studies from statistical modelling to machine learning. Briefings in Bioinformatics.
Sun S, Ding H, Wang D*, Han S*. Identifying antifreeze proteins based on key evolutionary information. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 8:1-8.
Sun S, Xu L*, Zou Q*, Wang G*. BP4RNAseq: a babysitter package for retrospective and newly generated RNA-seq data analyses using both alignment-based and alignment-free quantification method. Bioinformatics.
Sun S*, Jung E, Gaviria J, and Engelbrecht B M J. Drought survival is positively associated with high turgor loss points in temperate perennial grassland species. Functional Ecology 34: 788-798.
Sun S, Ding H, Wang D*, Han S*. Identifying antifreeze proteins based on key evolutionary information. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 8:1-8.
Sun S, Ao C, Wang D*, Dong B*. The frequencies of oppositely charged, uncharged polar, and β-branched amino acids determine proteins' thermostability. IEEE Access 8:1-7.
Jung E, Gaviria J, Sun S, Engelbrecht B M J*. Comparative drought resistance of temperate grassland species: testing performance trade-offs and the relation to distribution. Oecologia 192:1023-1036.
2019
Shanwen Sun, Chunyu Wang, Hui Ding, and Quan Zou. Machine learning and its applications in plant molecular studies. Briefings in Functional Genomics: elz036.
2016
Megan K. Bartlett, Ya Zhang, Jie Yang, Nissa Kreidler, Shanwen Sun, Luoxiang Lin, Yuehua Hu, Kunfang Cao, and Lawren Sack. Drought tolerance as a driver of tropical forest assembly: resolving spatial signatures for multiple processes. Ecology 97(2): 503-514.
2014
Megan K. Bartlett, Ya Zhang, Nissa Kreidler, Shanwen Sun, Rico Ardy, Kunfang Cao, and Lawren Sack. Global meta-analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait. Ecology letters 17(12): 1580-1590.
Shanwen Sun, Yongjiang Zhang, and Kunfang Cao. The correlation between leaf structure, drought tolerance and photosynthetic capacity in saplings of Euphorbiaceae from different micro-habitats in a seasonal tropical rainforest. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology 38(4): 311-324 (In Chinese with English abstract)
2012
Megan K. Bartlett, Christine Scoffoni, Rico Ardy, Ya Zhang, Shanwen Sun, Kunfang Cao, Lawren Sack. Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 880-888.