Academic Career and Research Areas
Jinlong Ru conducts research in phage therapy, metagenomics, and natural product drug discovery. His current work focuses on developing advanced computational tools for viromic data analysis to deepen our understanding of phage-host interactions and accelerate the discovery of novel therapeutics.
Professional Background
Postdoc, Institute of Virology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany
Thesis: Computational Analysis of the Role of Bacteriophages in Environment and Health
M.Sc. in Bioinformatics at the Northwest A&F University, China
B.Sc. in Biotechnology at the Northwest A&F University, China
Publications
Yang, Q. ; Sun, J. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, J. ; Liu, Q. ; Ru, J. ; Zhang, X. ; Wang, S. ; Hao, R. ; Bian, P. ; Dai, X. ; Gong, M. ; Zhang, Z. ; Wang, A. ; Bai, F. ; Li, R. ; Cai, Y. ; Jiang, Y.
SVLearn: A dual-reference machine learning approach enables accurate cross-species genotyping of structural variants.Ramaboli, M.C. ; Ocvirk, S. ; Khan Mirzaei, M. ; Eberhart, B.L. ; Valdivia-Garcia, M. ; Metwaly, A. ; Neuhaus, K. ; Barker, G. ; Ru, J. ; Nesengani, L.T. ; Mahdi-Joest, D. ; Wilson, A.S. ; Joni, S.K. ; Layman, D.C. ; Zheng, J. ; Mandal, R. ; Chen, Q. ; Perez, M.R. ; Fortuin, S. ; Gaunt, B. ; Wishart, D. ; Methé, B. ; Haller, D. ; Li, J.V. ; Deng, L. ; Swart, R. ; O'Keefe, S.J.D.
Diet changes due to urbanization in South Africa are linked to microbiome and metabolome signatures of Westernization and colorectal cancer.Thiele Orberg, E. ; Meedt, E. ; Hiergeist, A. ; Xue, J. ; Heinrich, P.C. ; Ru, J. ; Ghimire, S. ; Miltiadous, O. ; Lindner, S. ; Tiefgraber, M. ; Göldel, S. ; Eismann, T. ; Schwarz, A. ; Göttert, S. ; Jarosch, S. ; Steiger, K. ; Schulz, C. ; Gigl, M. ; Fischer, J.C. ; Janssen, K.P. ; Quante, M. ; Heidegger, S. ; Herhaus, P. ; Verbeek, M. ; Ruland, J. ; van den Brink, M.R.M. ; Weber, D. ; Edinger, M. ; Wolff, D. ; Busch, D.H. ; Kleigrewe, K. ; Herr, W. ; Bassermann, F. ; Gessner, A. ; Deng, L. ; Holler, E. ; Poeck, H.
Bacteria and bacteriophage consortia are associated with protective intestinal metabolites in patients receiving stem cell transplantation.