Personal profile

Dr. Ding Tao is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University. Sun Yat-sen University introduced talents, the national high-level talent introduction youth project selected.
Dr. Ding Tao received his bachelor's degree from the College of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China in 2006. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Oklahoma State University in 2012. From December 2012 to March 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Schloss, an internationally renowned microbiome expert. From April 2014 to 2018, he completed postdoctoral research at New York University under the supervision of internationally renowned systems biologist and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Professor Elodie Ghedin.

Research direction

The main research directions of the research group include:
(1) The dynamic and functional mechanisms of the microbiome in infectious or chronic diseases;
(2) The synergistic mechanism between the respiratory microbiome and the gut microbiome (pneumo-intestinal axis), and the synergistic response to host immunity;
(3) Microbiome and biosafety.

Academic achievement

Representative treatise

1. Ding T & Schloss P. D. (2014) Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body. Nature (May 15, 2014. doi: 10.1038/nature13178).
2. Su Y, Xu M, Cui Y, Chen R, Xie Li, Zhang J, Chen Y & Ding T* (2023) Bacterial quorum sensing orchestrates longitudinal interactions to shape microbiota assembly. Microbiome 11: 241
3. Li H†, Wu X†, Zeng H, Chang B, Cui Y, Zhang J, Wang R and Ding T* (2023) Microbial shifts in human oropharynx during acute respiratory tract infections . Microbiome. 11:157
4. Su Y & Ding T* (2023) Targetingmicrobial quorum sensing: the next frontier to hinder bacterial driven gastrointestinal infections. Gut Microbes. Vol. 15, No. 2, 2252780
5. Zhang J, Wu Y, Liu J, Yang Y, Li H, Wu X, Zheng X, Liang Y, Tu C, Chen M, Tan C, Chang B, Huang Y, Wang Z, Tian G* and Ding T* (2022) Differential oral microbial input determines two microbiota pneumo-types associated with health status. Advanced Science. 202203115
6. Du S†, Sun X†, Zhang J, Lin D, Chen R, Cui Y, Xiang S, Wu Z* and Ding T* (2022) Metagenome assembled genomes reveals mechanisms of carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism of schistosomiasis transmitting vector Biomphalaria glabrata. Microbiology spectrum. 01843-21
7. Lin D, Hong J, Sanogo B, Du S, Xiang S, Hui JH, Ding T*, Wu Z* & Sun X* (2023) Core gutmicrobes Cloacibacterium and Aeromonas associated with different gastropod species could be persistently transmitted across multiple generations. Microbiome 11, 267 
8. Chen J, Wang Y, Yu H, Wang R, Yu X, Huang H, Ai L, Zhang T, Huang B, Liu M, Ding T*, Luo Y* & Chen P*. (2023) Epidemiological and laboratory characteristics of Omicron infection in a general hospital in Guangzhou: a retrospective study. Front. Public Health. 11:1289668.
9. Fan H†, Cui Y†, Xu X, Zhang D, Yang D, Huang L, Ding T* and Lu G* (2022) Validation of a Classification Model Using Complete Blood Count to Predict Severe Human Adenovirus Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Pediatric Cases. Front Pediatr. 10:896606.
10. He Z, Yang Y, Li W, Ma X, Zhang C, Zhang J, Sun B*, Ding T* and Tian G* (2022) Comparative genomic analyses of Polymyxin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains from China. BMC Genomics. doi: 10.1186/s12864-022-08301-5.
11. Ding L†, Liu Y†, Wu X, Wu M, Luo X, Ouyang H, Xia J* , Liu X* and Ding T* (2021) Pathogen Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Lung Microbiota Signatures Between Bacteriologically Confirmed and Negative Tuberculosis Patients. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 11:708827.
12. Ding T, Song T, Zhou B, Geber A, Ma Y, Zhang L,Volk M, Kapadia SN, Jenkins SG, Salvatore M, Ghedin E. (2019) Microbial composition of the human nasopharynx varies according to influenza virus type and vaccination status. mBio (10:e01296-19.).
13. Cadena A†, Ma Y†, Ding T†, Bryant M, Maiello P, Geber A, Lin PL, Flynn JL, Ghedin E. (2018)  Profiling the airway in the macaque model of tuberculosis reveals variable microbial dysbiosis and alteration of community structure. Microbiome 6(1), 180. († equal contribution)