Yuan-En Sun

Yuan-En was born and raised in Taiwan. He is interested in protein chemistry and pharmacology. He finished his bachelor’s degree in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture from National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He joined Dr. Chien-Chih Yang’s lab at National Taiwan University to learn protein chemistry in plants. After graduating, he joined Dr. Hung-Ta Chen’s lab in Academia Sinica, Taiwan to study the eukaryotic RNA polymerase III. He focused on the function and protein-protein interaction network of the C31 subunit of the RNA polymerase III. Now, he joins the English lab to study G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), the β-adrenergic receptor, in the immune system for cardiovascular diseases.

Yuan-En likes to play any kind of sports, especially basketball. He also likes outdoor activities, such as hiking and camping.

Research

Yuan-En is evolving G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) using the VEGAS platform to identify novel switch-like domains for signaling identity and activation motifs in these proteins. His is currently focusing his efforts on ADRB2, and expanding these efforts to charactertize both well studied and orphan GPCRs.