2017 –至今   中国农业大学农学院，教授

2015 – 2016   美国普渡大学，Research Geneticist

2011 – 2015   美国普渡大学，博士后

2010 – 2011   中国科学院植物研究所，助理研究员

2003 – 2010   中国农业大学，作物遗传育种，研究生

1999 – 2003   山东农业大学，本科

本科生课程《种子生物学》

研究生课程《种子科学研究进展》

大豆重要驯化基因的克隆和进化机制

大豆种子发育基因的发掘和利用

大豆抗病及分子机制的解析和新材料的创制

大豆分子育种

国家自然科学基金面上项目，2019/01-2022/12 

国家重点研发计划“七大农作物育种”重点专项，2018/06-2020/12

中国农业大学青年教师创新项目，2018/01-2021/12

1. Stephen A. Swarm1, Lianjun Sun1, Xutong Wang, Weidong Wang, Patrick J. Brown, Jianxin Ma, Randall L. Nelson. Genetic dissection of domestication-related traits in soybean through genotyping-by-sequencing of two interspecific mapping populations. Theor Appl Genet. 2019, 129(12): 2379-2386. doi: 10.1007/s00122-018-3272-6

2. Dajian Zhang1, Lianjun Sun1, Shuai Li1, Weidong Wang, Yanhua Ding, Stephen A. Swarm, Linghong Li, Xutong Wang, Xuemin Tang, Zhifang Zhang, Zhixi Tian, Patrick J. Brown, Chunmei Cai, Randall L. Nelson and Jianxin Ma. Elevation of soybean seed oil content through selection for seed coat shininess. Nature Plants 2018, 4:30-35. 

3. Lianjun Sun1, Zhenyan Miao1, Chunmei Cai1, Dajian Zhang, Meixia Zhao, Yanyan Wu, Xueling Zhang, Stephen A Swarm, Liwen Zhou, Zhanyuan J Zhang, Randall L Nelson and Jianxin Ma. GmHs1-1, encoding a calcineurin-like protein, controls hard-seededness in soybean. Nature Genetics 2015, 47: 939-943.

4. VoluJieqing Ping1，Yunfeng Liu1，Lianjun Sun1，Meixia Zhao，Maoyun She，Yi Sui，Zhixi Tian，Randall Nelson，Thomas Clemente，Jame E. Spech and Jianxin Ma. Dt2 is a gain-of-function MADS-domain factor gene that specifies semideterminacy in soybean. Plant cell. 2014, 28(7): 2831-42.

5. Lianjun Sun1, Xiaojiao Li1, Yongcai Fu, Zuofeng Zhu, Lubin Tan, Fengxia Liu, Xianyou Su, Xuewen Sun and Chuanqing Sun. GS6, a member of the GRAS gene family, negatively regulates grain size in rice. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2013, 55(9999): 1-12.

6. Xiaojiao Li1, Lianjun Sun1, Lubin Tan, Fengxia Liu, Zuofeng Zhu, Yongcai Fu, Xianyou Sun, Xuewen Sun, Daoxin Xie and Chuanqing Sun. TH1, a DUF640 domain-like gene controls lemma and palea development in rice. Plant Molecular Biology 2012, 78(4): 351-359.

7. Leiying Zheng1, Xiaosen Guo1, Bing He1, Lianjun Sun1, Yao Peng, Shanshan Dong, Tengfei Liu, Shuye Jiang, Srinivasan Ramachandran, Chunming Liu and Haichun Jing. Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolour). Genome Biology 2011, 12(11): R114.

8. Feng Lin, Meixia Zhao, Douglas D Baumann, Jieqing Ping, Lianjun Sun, Yunfeng Liu, Biao Zhang, Zongxiang Tang, Elisa Hughes, Rebecca W Doerge, Teresa J Hughes and Jianxin Ma. Molecular response to the pathogen Phytophthora sojae among ten soybean near isogenic lines revealed by comparative transcriptomics. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:18.

9. Linghong Li, Feng Lin, Weidong Wang, Jieqing Ping, Josh Fitzgerald, Meixia Zhao, Shuai Li, Lianjun Sun, Chunmei Cai and Jianxin Ma. Fine mapping and candidate gene analysis of two loci conferring resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean. Theor Appl Genet. 2016, 129(12): 2379-2386.

10. Dajian Zhang, Meixia Zhao, Shuai Li, Lianjun Sun, Weidong Wang, Cunmei Cai and Emily C. Dierking and Jianxin Ma. Plasticity and innovation of regulatory mechanisms underlying seed oil content mediated by duplicated genes in the palaeopolyploid soybean. Plant J. 2017, DOI: 10.1111/tpj13533

11. Yanan Liu, Hongwei Zhang, Xuhui Li, Feng Wang, Demar Lyle, Lianjun Sun, Guoying Wang, Jianhua Wang, Li Li, and Riliang Gu. QTL mapping for seed artificial aging traits using an F2:3 population and a RIL population crossed from two highly related maize inbreds. Plant Breeding 2018, DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12663