Ling Ding

Ling Ding is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, and a key member of the DTU Microbes Initiative and Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites. Their research focuses on microbial ecology, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, and antifungal compound discovery.

Recent work involves genome mining in Streptomyces species, NMR spectroscopy, and studying microbial interactions such as actinobacterial and Pseudomonas fluorescens systems. Projects explore bioactive phosphorus-containing molecules, in situ detection of metabolites, and data-driven biosynthesis mechanisms.

Their research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to health and environmental sustainability, with publications spanning microbial chemistry, drug discovery, and synthetic biology. Supervised PhD projects include omics-driven antifungal metabolite discovery and microbial interaction studies.

Key publication trends include Streptomyces-derived bioactive compounds (e.g., lydicamycins, alligamycin), azoxy/polyketide metabolites, and computational approaches for fungal interaction classification. Methodologies emphasize NMR, genome mining, and deep learning models.

Advising:

• PhD students: M. Haahr, A. Kostoglou, D. J. Otto, A. Svetlova, A. Kaltenyte

Projects: Active roles in omics-driven antifungal metabolite discovery, phosphorus-containing molecule mining, and secondary metabolite biosynthesis mechanisms.