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Dr. Simon Maria Zumkeller is a researcher at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Bioinformatics (IBG-4) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. He leads the DeepCRE project focusing on deep learning applications for identifying and functionally annotating cis-regulatory elements in crop genomes.
His research interests bridge plant biology and artificial intelligence, specializing in:
- Genome-scale annotation of regulatory sequences across multiple plant species
- Integration of gene sequence data with DNA-protein interactions
- Analysis of transcription factor binding sites in plant gene regulatory networks
- Evolutionary conservation of regulatory sequence features
Dr. Zumkeller collaborates with the Usadel lab at Heinrich Heine University (HHU) and Thomas Hartwig's group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), utilizing both public data repositories and custom datasets from partner laboratories.
His current work focuses on four key plant species: Zea mays (maize), Arabidopsis thaliana, Solanum lycopersicum (tomato), and Sorghum bicolor, aiming to develop comprehensive models of plant gene regulation through convolutional neural networks.
