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Kou‐San Ju

Medicine · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2006Rising activity

Publications

53

Citations

3,398

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
AI-generated

Kou-San Ju studies how bacteria and fungi make specialized chemical compounds called natural products, with a particular focus on phosphonate and phosphonic acid compounds (molecules containing carbon-phosphorus bonds used in antibiotics and herbicides). The work combines genome analysis with chemical detection methods to discover new natural products and figure out the biosynthetic gene clusters (groups of genes that work together to build these molecules) responsible for making them. This research is relevant to students interested in microbiology, genomics, and drug/agrochemical discovery.

Microbial natural product discoveryPhosphonate and phosphonic acid biosynthesisGenome mining and metabolomicsBiosynthetic gene cluster characterizationStreptomyces taxonomy and phylogenetics

Publication output was modest but steady from 2017-2020, dipped in 2021, then increased noticeably from 2022-2025, suggesting a growing research output in recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications20212022: 3 publications222023: 5 publications5232024: 4 publications242025: 5 publications52526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • ACS Chemical Biology×5
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society×2
  • Journal of Bacteriology×2
  • Elsevier eBooks×2
  • ACS Central Science×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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