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Ry Young publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ry Young sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 179 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ry Young D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ry Young sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ry Young is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their work spans subfields including molecular biology, ecology, plant science, genetics, and microbiology.

The scientist has focused on topics such as bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, microbial infections and disease research, plant virus research studies, and plant pathogenic bacteria studies.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Ry Young include:

  • "Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation" (2020), published in PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Bacteriophages and their potential for treatment of gastrointestinal diseases" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "Comparative genomics of Acinetobacter baumannii and therapeutic bacteriophages from a patient undergoing phage therapy" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "ssRNA phage penetration triggers detachment of the F-pilus" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Structural Basis of T4 Phage Lysis Control: DNA as the Signal for Lysis Inhibition" (2020), published in Journal of Molecular Biology

Frequent coauthors with whom Ry Young has collaborated include Mei Liu, Karthik R. Chamakura, Tram Le, Jolene Ramsey, and Jason J. Gill.

The scientist's publications have appeared primarily in venues such as Microbiology Resource Announcements, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Current Opinion in Microbiology, and the Journal of Bacteriology.

Best Publications

  • Development and Use of Personalized Bacteriophage-Based Therapeutic Cocktails To Treat a Patient with a Disseminated Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

    Robert T. Schooley;Biswajit Biswas;Jason J. Gill;Adriana Hernandez-Morales

  • Holins: the protein clocks of bacteriophage infections.

    Ing-Nang Wang;David L. Smith;Ry Young

  • Bacteriophage lysis: mechanism and regulation.

    R Young

  • Bacteriophage targeting of gut bacterium attenuates alcoholic liver disease

    Yi Duan;Yi Duan;Cristina Llorente;Cristina Llorente;Sonja Lang;Katharina Brandl

  • Phages will out: strategies of host cell lysis

    Ry Young;Ing Nang Wang;William D. Roof

  • Holins: form and function in bacteriophage lysis

    Ry Young;Udo Bläsi

  • Holins kill without warning

    Angelika Gründling;Michael D. Manson;Ry Young

  • Polypeptide-chain-elongation rate in Escherichia coli B/r as a function of growth rate

    R Young;H Bremer

  • Phage lysis: do we have the hole story yet?

    Ry Young

  • Phage Lysis: Multiple Genes for Multiple Barriers.

    Jesse Cahill;Ry Young

  • Bacteriophage holins: deadly diversity.

    Ry Young

  • A signal-arrest-release sequence mediates export and control of the phage P1 endolysin

    Min Xu;Douglas K. Struck;John Deaton;Ing-Nang Wang

  • Genetic evidence that the bacteriophage φX174 lysis protein inhibits cell wall synthesis

    Thomas G. Bernhardt;William D. Roof;Ry Young

  • Rz/Rz1 lysis gene equivalents in phages of Gram-negative hosts.

    Elizabeth J. Summer;Joel Berry;Tram Anh T. Tran;Lili Niu

  • Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae RTX-toxins: uniform designation of haemolysins, cytolysins, pleurotoxin and their genes.

    J. Frey;J. T. Bosse;Y.-F. Chang;J. M. Cullen

  • slyD, a host gene required for phi X174 lysis, is related to the FK506-binding protein family of peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans-isomerases.

    W. D. Roof;S. M. Horne;K. D. Young;Ry Young

  • Holin triggering in real time

    Rebecca White;Shinobu Chiba;Ting Pang;Jill S. Dewey

  • Sizing the Holin Lesion with an Endolysin-β-Galactosidase Fusion

    Ing-Nang Wang;John Deaton;Ry Young

  • Disulfide isomerization after membrane release of its SAR domain activates P1 lysozyme.

    Min Xu;Arockiasamy Arulandu;Douglas K. Struck;Stephanie Swanson

  • The Lysis Protein E of φX174 Is a Specific Inhibitor of the MraY-catalyzed Step in Peptidoglycan Synthesis

    Thomas G. Bernhardt;Douglas K. Struck;Ry Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Bläsi
Udo Bläsi University of Vienna
Yung-Fu Chang
Yung-Fu Chang Cornell University
Angelika Gründling
Angelika Gründling Imperial College London
Thomas G. Bernhardt
Thomas G. Bernhardt Harvard University
John J. LiPuma
John J. LiPuma University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James C. Sacchettini
James C. Sacchettini Texas A&M University
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Kevin D. Young
Kevin D. Young University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Junjie Zhang
Junjie Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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