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Linhan Sun

Plant Biology Grad Student at Penn State

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About Me

I’m a first year graduate student in the Plant Biology Graduate Program at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at the Pennsylvania State Universty, PA. Currently I’m working in Dr.Teh-hui Kao’s lab studying self-incompatibility (SI) mechanism of Petunia inflata with biochemistry, molecular biology and genomics.

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Research Experience

Rotation Student, Dr.Teh-hui Kao Lab

(Sept.2015- )

Plant Biology Graduate Program, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

  • Interaction of S3-SLF13/S3-SLF8 with S-RNases in self-incompatibility of Petunia inflata

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dr.Xiaolan Zhang Lab

(April 2013-June 2015)

Horticultural Science College, China Agricultural University

  • Promoter cloning and expression profile verification of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) FRUITFUL (CsFUL) gene

  • Promoter cloning and analysis of genes in AGAMOUS subfamily of cucumber

Undergraduate Research Project (URP), Dr.Lusheng Zhang Lab

(March 2013-May 2014)

Horticultural Science College, China Agricultural University

  • Effect of excessive nitrogen on continuous cropping strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa)

Education

Graduate Student, Plant Biology

(Sept.2015- )

Plant Biology Graduate Program, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

Bachelor of Agronomy in Horticultural Science

(Sept. 2011-July 2015)

College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University

Graduation Thesis: Promoter cloning and analysis of genes in AGAMOUS subfamily of cucumber

Summer School at Shanghai Plant Stress Center (PSC)

(July 2014)

Summer School at Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE)

(August 2014)

Awards

  • Penn State University Graduate Fellowship (2015-2016)

  • Robert W. Graham Endowed Fellowship (2015-2016)

  • the Huck Institutes Fellowship (2015)

  • Top 100 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of China Agricultural University (July 2015)

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship of China Agricultural University(2014)

  • China National Scholarship (2012 & 2013)

Skills

  • Proficient in: plant DNA & RNA extraction,cDNA synthesis,PCR,gene/promoter cloning, vector construction, Arabidopsis floral dipping transformation, plant tissue culture, GUS staining

  • Familiar with: qRT-PCR,CRISPR/Cas9, Arabidopsis phenotype screen, fluroscence microscopy

  • Have knowledge of: Genetic analysis by plant crosses, in-situ hybridization,southern blot, western blot, yeast two hybrid, BiFC