Dr Jiarui Sun
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Journal Articles
Howard, Daniel R., Rashid, Ridwan B., Ahmed, Tufael, Namubiru, Patricia, Sohel Rana, Md., Wilkins, Tyler, Morrow, Joshua, Creek, Darren J., Franco, Rose Ann, Allenby, Mark C., Turner, Declan L., Werder, Rhiannon B., Manna, Sam, Satzke, Catherine, Lim, Yenkai, Sun, Jiarui, Dennis, Paul G., Yadav, Anushka, Kueh, Andrew J., Chung, Cheong Kwong, Forbes-Blom, Elizabeth, Noti, Mario, O’Regan, Jonathan, Coelho, Luis Pedro, Brown, Chrysothemis C., Morrison, Mark and Phipps, Simon (2026). Milk osteopontin alters the infant microbiome to drive DC hematopoiesis and disease tolerance. Cell. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.022
Clarke, Anna-Belle C., Ansale, Christine Rose, Banayag, Loren, Bayang, Sheryl, Bothma, Sheryl, Chittarath, Khonesavanh, Juruena, Merlina, Karamura, Georgina, Lapis-Gaza, Hazel R., Limbaga, Cesar, Lyons, Rebecca, Sun, Jiarui, Viljoen, Altus, Mostert, Diane, Saidi, Noor Baity, Suhaimi, Nurul Shamsinah Mohd, Pattison, Anthony B. and Dennis, Paul G. (2026). Core rhizosphere bacteria associated with banana (Musa spp.) across multiple continents. Applied Soil Ecology, 223 107107, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2026.107107
Clarke, Anna-Belle C., Ansale, Christine Rose, Banayag, Loren, Bayang, Sheryl, Bothma, Sheryl, Chittarath, Khonesavanh, Juruena, Merlina, Karamura, Georgina, Lapis-Gaza, Hazel R., Limbaga, Cesar, Lyons, Rebecca, Sun, Jiarui, Viljoen, Altus, Mostert, Diane, Saidi, Noor Baity, Suhaimi, Nurul Shamsinah Mohd, Pattison, Anthony B. and Dennis, Paul G. (2026). Towards a global core mycobiome of banana (musa spp.). Applied Soil Ecology, 223. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2026.107040
Sun, Jiarui, Lyons, Rebecca, Weigh, Katherine V., Lieske, Scott, Newsham, Kevin K., Hopkins, David W. and Dennis, Paul G. (2026). Putative drivers of maritime Antarctic soil resistomes in the early 21st century: a baseline for monitoring environmental change and human influence. Science of the Total Environment, 1014 181361, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181361
Cofre, Maria Vega, Sun, Jiarui, Williams, Wendy, Lyons, Rebecca, O’Reagain, Peter, Schmidt, Susanne and Dennis, Paul G. (2026). Impacts of grazing management on biocrust microbiomes and their potential to input and cycle nutrients. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 62 (1), 139-153. doi: 10.1007/s00374-025-01963-9
Lyons, Rebecca, Clarke, Anna-Belle C., Lapis-Gaza, Hazel R., Sun, Jiarui, Birt, Henry W.G., Pattison, Anthony B. and Dennis, Paul G. (2025). Landuse affects the likelihood of soil colonization by a key plant pathogen. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 393 109814, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2025.109814
Lyons, Rebecca L., Parry, Andrew R., Chan, Clement Matthew, Hodal, Catherine M. E., Sun, Jiarui, Lant, Paul A., Pratt, Steven, Laycock, Bronwyn and Dennis, Paul G. (2025). Relative to a common phthalate, citrate-based plasticizers exert minimal impact on plastisphere bacterial community composition during biopolymer biodegradation. Environmental Science and Technology, 59 (32), 17173-17187. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c01660
Sun, Jiarui, Hirai, Miho, Takaki, Yoshihiro, Evans, Paul N., Nunoura, Takuro and Rinke, Christian (2025). Metagenomic insights into taxonomic and functional patterns in shallow coastal and deep subseafloor sediments in the Western Pacific. Microbial Genomics, 11 (3) 001351. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001351
Birt, Henry W.G., Pattison, Anthony B., Carrillo, Yolima, Lieske, Scott N., Lyons, Rebecca, Lapis-Gaza, Hazel R., Sun, Jiarui and Dennis, Paul G. (2024). Relative to rainforests and grasslands, banana and sugarcane soils have half the microbial biomass and highly distinct bacterial and fungal communities. Applied Soil Ecology, 204 105750, 105750. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105750
Clarke, Anna-Belle C., Lapis-Gaza, Hazel R., Irvine-Brown, Stuart, Lyons, Rebecca, Sun, Jiarui, Pattison, Anthony B. and Dennis, Paul G. (2024). Moderate phosphorus addition to field-grown bananas enhanced soil microbial enzyme activities but had negligible impacts on bacterial, fungal, and nematode diversity. Applied Microbiology, 4 (4), 1582-1599. doi: 10.3390/applmicrobiol4040108
Medvedeva, Sofia, Sun, Jiarui, Yutin, Natalya, Koonin, Eugene V., Nunoura, Takuro, Rinke, Christian and Krupovic, Mart (2022). Three families of Asgard archaeal viruses identified in metagenome-assembled genomes. Nature Microbiology, 7 (7), 962-973. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01144-6
Sun, Jiarui, Prabhu, Apoorva, Aroney, Samuel T. N. and Rinke, Christian (2022). Insights into plastic biodegradation: community composition and functional capabilities of the superworm (Zophobas morio) microbiome in styrofoam feeding trials. Microbial Genomics, 8 (6) 000842. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000842
Sun, Jiarui, Evans, Paul N., Gagen, Emma J., Woodcroft, Ben J., Hedlund, Brian P., Woyke, Tanja, Hugenholtz, Philip and Rinke, Christian (2022). Correction: Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota. ISME Communications, 2 (1) 6, 6. doi: 10.1038/s43705-021-00048-6
Sun, Jiarui, Evans, Paul N., Gagen, Emma J., Woodcroft, Ben J., Hedlund, Brian P., Woyke, Tanja, Hugenholtz, Philip and Rinke, Christian (2021). Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota lineages. ISME Communications, 1 (1) 30, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s43705-021-00032-0
Dombrowski, Nina, Williams, Tom A., Sun, Jiarui, Woodcroft, Benjamin J., Lee, Jun-Hoe, Minh, Bui Quang, Rinke, Christian and Spang, Anja (2020). Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 3939, 3939. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17408-w
Thesis
Sun, Jiarui (2023). Culture-independent exploration of microbial dark matter with a focus on Asgardarchaeota. PhD Thesis, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b39b51b