Selected Publications
Sun lab members indicated with bold
Equal contributions with asterisk *
Co-corresponding authors with obelus †
The cortical amygdala consolidates a socially transmitted long-term memory
Zhihui Liu *†, Wenfei Sun *, Yi Han Ng, Hua Dong, Stephen Quake †, Thomas Südhof †
Nature (2024)
Research Briefings by Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03012-1
Spatial transcriptomics reveal neuron–astrocyte synergy in long-term memory
Wenfei Sun *, Zhihui Liu *, Xian Jiang, Michelle Chen, Hua Dong, Jonathan Liu, Thomas Südhof †, Stephen Quake †
Nature (2024)
Matters Arising by Mukamel & Yu https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08988-y
Our reply to Matters Arising https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08989-x
Identification of a regulatory pathway inhibiting adipogenesis via RSPO2
Hua Dong *, Wenfei Sun *, Yang Shen, Miroslav Baláz, Lucia Balázová, Lianggong Ding, Mona Löffler, Bradford Hamilton, Nora Klöting, Matthias Blüher, Heike Neubauer, Holger Klein, Christian Wolfrum
Nature Metabolism (2022)
News & Views by Cannavino & Gupta https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-021-00519-z
Analysis of single-cell/nucleus transcriptome data in adipose tissue
Wenfei Sun
Methods in Molecular Biology (2022)
Local acetate inhibits brown adipose tissue function
Wenfei Sun *†, Hua Dong *, Christian Wolfrum †
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
Plasticity and heterogeneity of thermogenic adipose tissue (Review)
Wenfei Sun, Salvatore Modica, Hua Dong, Christian Wolfrum
Nature Metabolism (2021)
Wenfei Sun
Science (2021)
snRNA-seq reveals a subpopulation of adipocytes that regulates thermogenesis
Wenfei Sun †, Hua Dong, Miroslav Balaz, Michal Slyper, Eugene Drokhlyansky, Georgia Colleluori, Antonio Giordano, Zuzana Kovanicova, Patrik Stefanicka, Lucia Balazova, Lianggong Ding, Anna Sofie Husted, Gottfried Rudofsky, Jozef Ukropec, Saverio Cinti, Thue Schwartz, Aviv Regev, Christian Wolfrum †
Nature (2020)
Previewed by Shamsi, Tseng, and Kahn in Cell Metabolism https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2020.12.012
Featured by Symonds in Faculty Opinion https://doi.org/10.3410/f.738913035.793579918
Wenfei Sun, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Daria Peleg-Raibstein, Christian Wolfrum
Advanced Science (2019)
Wenfei Sun *, Hua Dong *, Anton Becker, Dianne Dapito, Salvatore Modica, Gerald Grandl, Lennart Opitz, Vissarion Efthymiou, Leon Straub, Gitalee Sarker, Miroslav Balaz, Lucia Balazova, Aliki Perdikari, Elke Kiehlmann, Sara Bacanovic, Caroline Zellweger, Daria Peleg-Raibstein, Pawel Pelczar, Wolf Reik, Irene Burger, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Christian Wolfrum
Nature Medicine (2018)
Previewed by Skinner https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0187-3
Featured by Symonds in Faculty Opinion https://doi.org/10.3410/f.733602854.793548099
Featured by Golding in Faculty Opinion https://doi.org/10.3410/f.733602854.793554515
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