2026 · Peleke FF, Zumkeller SM, Schirmer D, et al. Genome-wide modelling of plant transcription-factor binding captures regulatory variants associated with phenotypic traits. Nature Communications 17, 4913. corresponding
2025 · Peleke FF, Zumkeller SM*, Psaroudakis D, Schmitz G, Szymański J. Accessible deep learning for plant biology: predicting gene expression from regulatory DNA with deepCRE. Communications Biology (in review). corresponding
2025 · Kwok van der Giezen F, McDowell R, Duncan O, Zumkeller SM, et al. High conservation of translation-enabling RNA-editing sites in hyper-editing ferns. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42(10), msaf241.
2025 · Khan AS, Zumkeller SM, Schmitz G, et al. The complex molecular basis of enhanced stress resilience in extreme drought-tolerant Arabis grassland species. bioRxiv (preprint).
2024 · Peleke FF, Zumkeller SM, Gültas M, Schmitt A, Szymański J. Deep learning the cis-regulatory code for gene expression in selected model plants. Nature Communications 15, 3488. co-first
2023 · Zumkeller SM, Polsakiewicz M, Knoop V. Rickettsial DNA and a trans-splicing rRNA group I intron in the unorthodox mitogenome of the fern Haplopteris ensiformis. Communications Biology 6, 296.
2023 · Zumkeller SM, Knoop, V. Categorizing 161 plant (streptophyte) mitochondrial group II introns into 29 families of related paralogues finds only limited links between intron mobility and intron-borne maturases. BMC Ecol Evo 23, 5
2020 · Zumkeller SM, Gerke P, Knoop V. Functional "zombie" twintrons and a hypermobile group II intron invading itself in plant mitochondria. Nucleic Acids Research.
2016 · Zumkeller SM, Volker Knoop, Nils Knie, Convergent Evolution of Fern-Specific Mitochondrial Group II Intron atp1i361g2 and Its Ancient Source Paralogue rps3i249g2 and Independent Losses of Intron and RNA Editing among Pteridaceae, Genome Biology and Evolution