Christopher H. Bohrer
cbohrer3141.bsky.social
Christopher H. Bohrer
@cbohrer3141.bsky.social
Postdoc at NIH/NCI, PHD at Hopkins
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
‘Chromosomal Topological Domain Formation Modulates Transcription and the Coupling of Neighboring Genes in Escherichia coli‘ by Drs. Nico Yehya, Christopher Bohrer, and collaborators, is now available on bioRxiv. Check it out! doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Chromosomal Topological Domain Formation Modulates Transcription and the Coupling of Neighboring Genes in Escherichia coli
Chromosomal topology and transcription are tightly coupled, yet the quantitative impact of topological constraints on transcription, supercoiling, and the potential coupling between neighboring genes ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
What is a promoter? And how does it work?

We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility.
I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Enhancer-promoter compatibility is mediated by the promoter-proximal region
Gene promoters induce transcription in response to distal enhancers. How enhancers specifically activate their target promoter while bypassing other promoters remains unclear. Here, we find that the p...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
Did transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models!
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October 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
mRNA-mRNA correlations across the single cells from a tissue are rarely interpreted.

They differ from the corresponding protein-protein correlations?

𝐖𝐡𝐲 ❓

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September 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
Jie Xiao to Receive 2026 Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award
www.biophysics.org/news-room/ji...
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
It's also nice to see a very rigorous and careful approach to analyzing interactions in live-cell imaging data subject to noise. Direct simple thresholding of such data will inevitably give artefactual numbers.
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
Some proteins are primarily regulated by one mechanism: RNA abundance, translation, or clearance.

The regulation of most proteins is dominated by different regulatory mechanisms across cell types.

Gratifyingly, this complex regulation defines simple rules ⬇️

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September 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Christopher H. Bohrer
Jamie Drayton and I were fortunate to contribute some RCMC analyses to this beautiful paper from Eder, Moene...van Steensel that systematically maps the relationship between enhancer location and gene expression (and nice to see RCMC predict expression in Fig 2H-I):
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM