Jan Piotr Buchmann

Dr. Jan Piotr Buchmann is a researcher at the Institute for Biological Data Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, contributing to the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) under Research Area 4: Theoretical Plant Sciences and Data Sciences.

His core research involves plant gene family analysis across dicotyledonous and eudicotyledonous species, with emphasis on:

• Genomic classification via Mercator4/MapMan frameworks
• Evolutionary studies using protein sub-family information
• Full genome comparisons without prior gene calling
• Metabolic network adaptation in plant-microbe systems

Buchmann's methodology enables rapid genomic analysis by bypassing traditional gene-calling steps, directly leveraging protein sub-family data to identify gene sub-families in raw genomes. This approach supports CEPLAS's broader goals in optimizing plant performance through metabolism-development interfaces and synthetic biology applications.