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Charis Drummer

German Primate CenterORCID 0000-0002-1382-2228Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 3 Organism:mouse· 3 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 2 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 2 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:ATAC-seq· 1

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Céline SchneideriD· 2 shared Henrik KaessmanniD· 2 shared Ioannis SarropoulosiD· 2 shared Julia SchmidtiD· 2 shared Margarida Cardoso-MoreiraiD· 2 shared Mari SeppiD· 2 shared Nils TrostiD· 2 shared Robert FrömeliD· 2 shared

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Coordinated neural progenitor adaptations drive primate neocortical downscaling

Lidiia Tynianskaia, Cesar Mateo Bastidas Betancourt, Esther Marie Grewe, Julia Marie Kniep, Neringa Liutikaite, Nesil Eşiyok, Sabrina Heide, Nancy Rüger, Dimitri Leonid Lindenwald, Charis Drummer, Stoyan Petkov, Nataliya Di Donato, Michael Heide

The paper identifies coordinated adaptations in neural progenitor cells that drive neocortical downscaling in marmosets compared to humans.

bioRxiv · Feb 19, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development

Ioannis Sarropoulos, Mari Sepp, Tetsuya Yamada, Philipp S. L. Schäfer, Nils Trost, Julia Schmidt, Céline Schneider, Charis Drummer, Sophie Mißbach, Ibrahim Ihsan Taskiran, Nikolai Hecker, Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Niklas Kempynck, Robert Frömel, Piyush K. Joshi, , Henrik Kaessmann

This study identifies conserved and diverged gene regulatory networks in mammalian cerebellum development using single-nucleus gene expression and chromatin accessibility data from six species.

Science · Jan 29, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

The evolution of gene regulatory programs controlling gonadal development in primates

Nils Trost, Amir Fallahshahroudi, Ioannis Sarropoulos, Céline Schneider, Julia Schmidt, Noe Mbengue, Eva Wolff, Charis Drummer, Robert Frömel, Steven Lisgo, Florent Murat, Mari Sepp, Margarida Cardoso-Moreira, Rüdiger Behr, Henrik Kaessmann

This study analyzes gene regulatory programs in primate gonads, finding shared and species-specific regulatory dynamics and candidate genes for sex development disorders.

bioRxiv · Jun 17, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology