Tai-ping Sun
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 1987
B.S., National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) 1980
Sun, T. P. “Gibberellin signal transduction in stem elongation & leaf growth.” In Plant Hormones: Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action!, 308–28, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2686-7_15. Full Text
Sun, Tai-Ping. “Novel nucleocytoplasmic protein O-fucosylation by SPINDLY regulates diverse developmental processes in plants.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology 68 (January 18, 2021): 113–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2020.12.013. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., H. N. Wang, P. Strobbia, R. Zentella, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Plasmonic Nanobiosensing: From in situ plant monitoring to cancer diagnostics at the point of care.” Jphys Photonics 2, no. 3 (July 7, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ab9714. Full Text
Wang, Yan, Yuqing He, Chen Su, Rodolfo Zentella, Tai-Ping Sun, and Lei Wang. “Nuclear Localized O-Fucosyltransferase SPY Facilitates PRR5 Proteolysis to Fine-Tune the Pace of Arabidopsis Circadian Clock.” Molecular Plant 13, no. 3 (March 2020): 446–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2019.12.013. Full Text
Yang, Emily J., Chan Yul Yoo, Jiangxin Liu, He Wang, Jun Cao, Fay-Wei Li, Kathleen M. Pryer, et al. “NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches.” Nat Commun 10, no. 1 (June 14, 2019): 2630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10517-1. Full Text Open Access Copy
Strobbia, Pietro, Yang Ran, Bridget M. Crawford, Vanessa Cupil-Garcia, Rodolfo Zentella, Hsin-Neng Wang, Tai-Ping Sun, and Tuan Vo-Dinh. “Inverse Molecular Sentinel-Integrated Fiberoptic Sensor for Direct and in Situ Detection of miRNA Targets.” Analytical Chemistry 91, no. 9 (May 2019): 6345–52. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01350. Full Text
Crawford, Bridget M., Pietro Strobbia, Hsin-Neng Wang, Rodolfo Zentella, Maxim I. Boyanov, Zhen-Ming Pei, Tai-Ping Sun, Kenneth M. Kemner, and Tuan Vo-Dinh. “Plasmonic Nanoprobes for in Vivo Multimodal Sensing and Bioimaging of MicroRNA within Plants.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, no. 8 (February 12, 2019): 7743–54. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b19977. Full Text
Yang, E. J., C. Y. Yoo, J. Liu, H. Wang, J. Cao, F. Li, K. M. Pryer, T. Sun, D. Weigel, and P. Zhou. “NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches.” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (2019): 1–13. Open Access Copy
Shinozaki, Yoshihito, Kentaro Ezura, Jianhong Hu, Yoshihiro Okabe, Camille Bénard, Duyen Prodhomme, Yves Gibon, Tai-Ping Sun, Hiroshi Ezura, and Tohru Ariizumi. “Identification and functional study of a mild allele of SlDELLA gene conferring the potential for improved yield in tomato.” Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (August 13, 2018): 12043. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30502-w. Full Text
Hu, Jianhong, Alon Israeli, Naomi Ori, and Tai-Ping Sun. “The Interaction between DELLA and ARF/IAA Mediates Crosstalk between Gibberellin and Auxin Signaling to Control Fruit Initiation in Tomato.” The Plant Cell 30, no. 8 (August 2018): 1710–28. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00363. Full Text
Zentella, Rodolfo, Ning Sui, Benjamin Barnhill, Wen-Ping Hsieh, Jianhong Hu, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Michael Boyce, et al. “The Arabidopsis O-fucosyltransferase SPINDLY activates nuclear growth repressor DELLA.” Nat Chem Biol 13, no. 5 (May 2017): 479–85. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2320. Full Text Open Access Copy
Pages
Cupil-Garcia, V., P. Strobbia, B. M. Crawford, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, T. P. Sun, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Applications of plasmonic nanoparticles for in vivo biosensing of plants.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 11257, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2553020. Full Text
Cupil-Garcia, V., P. Strobbia, Y. Ran, B. M. Crawford, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, T. P. Sun, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Fiberoptics SERS sensors using plasmonic nanostar probes for detection of molecular biotargets.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 11257, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2552993. Full Text
Strobbia, P., B. M. Crawford, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Application of plasmonic nanoprobes for SERS sensing and imaging of biotargets in plant systems.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 10894, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2512010. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., P. Strobbia, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, R. Odion, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “In vivo nucleic acid detection and imaging within whole plants using plasmonic nanosensors.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11007, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524840. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., P. Strobbia, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “In vivo detection of microRNA within plants using plasmonic nanosensors.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11082, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529818. Full Text
Strobbia, P., Y. Ran, B. M. Crawford, V. Cupil-Garcia, R. Zentella, H. N. Wang, T. P. Sun, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Inverse molecular sentinel-integrated fiber sensor for direct detection of miRNA targets.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11082, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529844. Full Text
Selected Grants
Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2020 to 2025
Molecular Mechanism of Master Growth Repressor DELLA Signaling in Arabidopsis awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2022
Functional Analysis of Protein O-Glycosylation in Regulating Nuclear Growth Repressor DELLA and Plant Development in Arabidopsis awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2022
Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2001 to 2022
DELLA-ARF/IAA Interactions Mediate Crosstalk between Gibberellin and Auxin Signaling in Regulating Fruit Development in Tomato awarded by Department of Agriculture (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2021
Plasmonics-Enhanced Optical Imaging Systems for Bioenergy Research awarded by Department of Energy (Co Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Organization and Function of Cellular Structure awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1975 to 2020
Multi-functional Plasmonics Nanoprobes for Cellular Sensing and Imaging awarded by Department of Energy (Co Investigator). 2015 to 2019
Acquisition of a MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer System at Duke University awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center (Major User). 2017 to 2018