STAFF


Prof. Yu Sun

College of Life Sciences,
South China Agricultural University,

Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-13533754454
E-mail:sunyu@scau.edu.cn


Education

  • Ph.D. (Evolutionary Genetics Genetics)

Uppsala University, Sweden 2013

  • M.S. (Applied Biotechnology)

Uppsala University, Sweden 2009

  • B.S. (Biological Science)

Sun Yat-sen University, China, 2005


Professional Biography

Dr. Yu Sun worked as postdoctoral fellow in Uppsala University from 2013 to 2016 in Sweden, and filled a professor position in the SCAU in late 2016. Dr. Sun’s lab mainly worked on the indoor microbiome and occupants’ health, including asthma, respiratory infection and sick-building syndrome (SBS). He also had broad interests in wide range of microbiome researches, such as human or animal gut microbiome and soil microbiome.


Area of Expertise

Indoor microbiome; high-throughput sequencing; comparative genomics


Selected Publications

  1. Xi Fu, Yanling Li, Qianqian Yuan, Gui-hong Cai, Yiqun Deng, Xin Zhang, Dan Norbäck*, Yu Sun*. Continental-scale microbiome study reveals different environmental characteristics determining microbial richness and composition/quantity in hotel rooms. mSystems. 2020 DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00119-20

  2. Xi Fu, Yanling Li, Yi Meng, Qianqian Yuan, Zefei Zhang, Dan Norbäck, Yiqun Deng, Xin Zhang,  Yu Sun. Associations Between Respiratory Infections and Bacterial Microbiome in Student Dormitories in Northern China. Indoor Air (2020) https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12677

  3. Xi Fu, Dan Norbäck, Qianqian Yuan, Yanling Li, Xunhua Zhu, Jamal Hisham Hashim, Zailina Hashim, Faridah Ali, Yi-Wu Zheng, Xu-Xin Lai, Michael Dho Spangfort, Yiqun Deng, Yu Sun. Indoor microbiome, environmental characteristics and asthma among junior high school students in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Environment International.2020https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105664

  4. Xi Fu, Qianqian Yuan, Yanling Li, Yu Sun. A novel strategy to identify asthma-associated microbial clusters. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2020.01.007.

  5. Yu Sun, Yanling Li, Qianqian Yuan, Xi Fu. Identifying Composition Novelty in Microbiome Studies: Improvement for Prediction Accuracy. mBio. 2019:10. DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00892-19.

  6. Yu Sun, Jikai Wen, Ruohong Chen, & Yiqun Deng. (2019). Variable protein homeostasis in housekeeping and non-housekeeping pathways under mycotoxins stress. Scientific reports, 9(1), 7819. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44305-0

  7. Yu Sun*, Jesper Svedberg*, Markus Hiltunen, Padraic Corcoran, Hanna Johannesson. Large-scale suppression of recombination predates genomic rearrangements in Neurospora tetrasperma. Nature Communications 2017: doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01317-6.

  8. Yu Sun, Damarit D, Andersson SGE. Switches in Genomic GC Content Drive Shifts of Optimal Codons under Sustained Selection on Synonymous Sites. Genome Biology and Evolution 2016 Oct; 9(10): 2560-2579.

  9. Yu Sun, Carrie A Whittle, Padraic Corcoran, Hanna Johannesson. Intron evolution in Neurospora: the role of mutational biases and selection. Genome Research 2015 25(1): 100-110.

  10. Yu Sun*, Padraic Corcoran*, Audrius Menkis, Carrie A Whittle, Siv GE Andersson, Hanna Johannesson.Large-scale introgression shapes the evolution of the mating-type chromosomes of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma. Plos Genetics. 2012 July; 8(7): e1002820.