Patrick Sun

Patrick Sun's work examines how creation care and environmental stewardship can bring people together to create a hope-filled future. His goal is to incorporate field-based experiences into classes to cultivate a sense of ownership and elevate a sense of responsibility. Sun’s research interests focus on the interaction of stress tolerance with environmental factors in the context of organism adaptation to changing environments. His research examines differences in stress response to pollution and climate change in different populations, between sexes and at different ages. His research combines lab work that examines antioxidant regulators (e.g. the Nrf2 protein) and protein regulatory pathways (e.g. proteasome) with field work that characterizes environmental conditions (e.g. heavy metal contamination and temperature stress).