Associate Professor
Location: Weniger 499

Email: sunb@physics.oregonstate.edu   

Phone: +1(541) 737-8203

Research Group Website: https://sites.google.com/site/biophysicsbosun/
Recent Courses: PH585 Atoms, Molecules and Optics

 

Education

Ph.D. in Physics (2010) New York University
Postdoctoral Associate (2010-2013) Princeton University

Research Interests

Statistical Physics of Cell Signaling
Cell Mechanics
Collective Cancer Invasion

Representative Publications

The micromechanics of cellularized biopolymer networks, Christopher Allen Rucksack Jones, Matthew Cibula, Jingchen Feng, Emma A. Krnacik, David H. McIntyre, Herbert Levine, Bo Sun, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 112 (37), E5117–E5122 (2015)

 

Minimization of thermodynamic costs in cancer cell invasion, L. Liu*, G. Duclos*, B. Sun*, J. Lee, A. Wu, Y. Kam, E. D. Sontag, H. A. Stone, J. C. Sturm, R. A. Gatenby and R. H. Austin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 110(5), 1686-1691 (2013).

 

Spatial-temporal dynamics of collective chemosensing, B. Sun, J. Lembong, V. Normand, M. Rogers and H. A.  Stone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (20) , 7759-7764 (2012) .