Ximing Ran

Ximing Ran

CSI PhD student at Emory University

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

*: equal contribution

Journal Articles

  1. Yang X., Liu H., Xu Q., Peng J., Sun H., Hausman D., Ran X., Herzog E., Zhang Y., Wong F.S., Chen X., Guo L., Ge H., Hong Y., Zhang L., Wen L., Wang R., & Ji G. (2026). "Source-specific priming of lung NK cells by Pseudomonas LPS enhances resistance to bacterial pneumonia." Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 11(1):427. doi:10.1038/s41392-026-02832-z [Paper]
  2. Ran X.*, Wuu J.*, Qin Z.S., McDermott M.P., Cooper-Knock J., Li Y., Granit V., Grignon A.L., Lin E., Fernandez M.C., Colato D., Carberry N., Lill C.M., Piazza P., Malaspina A., & Benatar M. (2026). "Longitudinal plasma proteomics predict phenoconversion to clinically manifest ALS." Nature Medicine. doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04528-x [Paper]
  3. Johnson C.E., Ran X., Wrobel J., Davidson N.R., Greene C.S., Epstein M.P., Marks J.R., Peres L.C., Doherty J.A., & Schildkraut J.M. (2025). "An Analytic Pipeline to Obtain Reliable Genetic Ancestry Estimates from Tumor-Derived RNA Sequencing Data." Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 34(9):1593–1599. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-25-0371 [Paper]
  4. Geng L., Yang X., Sun J., Ran X., Zhou D., Ye M., Wen L., Wang R., & Chen M. (2025). "Gut Microbiota Modulation by Inulin Improves Metabolism and Ovarian Function in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome." Advanced Science. doi:10.1002/advs.202412558 [Paper]
  5. Yang X., Xu Y., Li J., Ran X., Gu Z., Song L., Zhang L., Wen L., Ji G., & Wang R. (2024). "Bile acid–gut microbiota imbalance in cholestasis and its long-term effect in mice." mSystems, 9(7):e00127-24. doi:10.1128/msystems.00127-24 [Paper]

Conference Papers

  1. Ran X., Xu J., Jin P., Qin Z., Wen Z., & Lu J. (2026). "LLMBDC: Language Model for Biological Domains Oriented Clustering of Gene Ontology." In Proceedings of BioKDD 2026 (KDD Workshop). arXiv:2608.00099 [Paper]
  2. Ran X. (2022). "Predict Opioid-using Pharmacists from the Prescribing Practices Based on SVM Classification Model." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Healthcare Research (ASSEHR). doi:10.2991/assehr.k.220110.050 [Paper]

Preprints

  1. Niu W.*, Guo J.*, Ran X.*, Parker D., Li X., Yu S., Imes S., Purcell R., Michalski C., Guo E., Jiang S.Y., Xu E., Bassell G.J., Mulle J.G., Ousley O.Y., Pearce B., Feng Y., Bearden C.E., Walker E.F., Cubells J.F., Qin Z., Duncan E., & Wen Z. (2026). "Synaptic microRNA dysregulation orchestrates aberrant glutamatergic transmission in a human neuronal model of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome." bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2026.10.13.758925 [Paper]
  2. Dan W., Xi S., Guo C., Ran X., & Qin Z. (2026). "S-BEED: Sparse Bayesian Ensemble with Entropy-Calibrated Debate for Medical Multiple-Choice Question Answering." SSRN. SSRN:7305416 [Paper]