Christoph Zechner

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Christoph Zechner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Zechner has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Christoph Zechner's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (28 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Christoph Zechner is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (28 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Christoph Zechner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Christoph Zechner's co-authors include Heinz Koeppl, Mustafa Khammash, Matthias Peter, Serge Pelet, Anders S. Hansen, Frank Jülicher, Tyler S. Harmon, Adam Kłosin, Alf Honigmann and Anthony A. Hyman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Zechner

40 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dynamics of CTCF- and cohesin-mediated chromatin looping revealed by live-cell imaging

2022 287 citations Michele Gabriele, Hugo B. Brandão et al. Science profile →
Phase separation provides a mechanism to reduce noise in cells

2020 216 citations Adam Kłosin, Tyler S. Harmon et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Zechner Germany	15	1.2k	141	136	126	103	41	1.4k
Derek N. Macklin United States	7	1.1k 0.9×	188 1.3×	173 1.3×	322 2.6×	51 0.5×	8	1.5k
Jian Shu United States	9	1.5k 1.2×	101 0.7×	269 2.0×	101 0.8×	63 0.6×	9	1.8k
Jonathan R. Karr United States	14	1.4k 1.1×	207 1.5×	228 1.7×	111 0.9×	51 0.5×	33	1.6k
Lucia Marucci United Kingdom	19	805 0.7×	203 1.4×	138 1.0×	85 0.7×	40 0.4×	51	1.0k
Florian Heigwer Germany	13	629 0.5×	86 0.6×	81 0.6×	230 1.8×	65 0.6×	21	894
Jayodita C. Sanghvi United States	5	905 0.7×	123 0.9×	188 1.4×	80 0.6×	42 0.4×	8	1.1k
Benjamin Bolival United States	8	1.1k 0.9×	112 0.8×	292 2.1×	64 0.5×	99 1.0×	8	1.3k
Juntao Gao China	19	764 0.6×	136 1.0×	80 0.6×	176 1.4×	172 1.7×	44	1.1k
Thomas Stoeger United States	16	1.0k 0.9×	50 0.4×	133 1.0×	136 1.1×	66 0.6×	27	1.4k
Lacramioara Bintu United States	15	2.1k 1.7×	74 0.5×	487 3.6×	118 0.9×	153 1.5×	29	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Zechner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Zechner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Zechner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zechner, Christoph & Frank Jülicher. (2025). Concentration buffering and noise reduction in non-equilibrium phase-separating systems. Cell Systems. 16(2). 101168–101168. 2 indexed citations

Bailles, Anaïs, et al.. (2025). Anisotropic stretch biases the self-organization of actin fibers in multicellular Hydra aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(32). e2423437122–e2423437122. 2 indexed citations

Rocha-Martins, Maurício, et al.. (2023). Deterministic and probabilistic fate decisions co‐exist in a single retinal lineage. The EMBO Journal. 42(14). e112657–e112657. 7 indexed citations

Gonzales, David T., Surased Suraritdechachai, Christoph Zechner, & T.‐Y. Dora Tang. (2023). Bidirectional Communication between Droplet Interface Bilayers Driven by Cell‐Free Quorum Sensing Gene Circuits**. ChemSystemsChem. 5(6). 5 indexed citations

Zechner, Christoph, et al.. (2023). Dynamic information transfer in stochastic biochemical networks. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 11 indexed citations

Gabriele, Michele, Hugo B. Brandão, Simon Grosse‐Holz, et al.. (2022). Dynamics of CTCF- and cohesin-mediated chromatin looping revealed by live-cell imaging. Science. 376(6592). 496–501. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

Hansen, Anders S. & Christoph Zechner. (2021). Promoters adopt distinct dynamic manifestations depending on transcription factor context. Molecular Systems Biology. 17(2). e9821–e9821. 6 indexed citations

Pietzsch, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Compartor: a toolbox for the automatic generation of moment equations for dynamic compartment populations. Bioinformatics. 37(17). 2782–2784. 1 indexed citations

Kłosin, Adam, Tyler S. Harmon, Alf Honigmann, et al.. (2020). Phase separation provides a mechanism to reduce noise in cells. Science. 367(6476). 464–468. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gonzales, David T., Christoph Zechner, & T.‐Y. Dora Tang. (2020). Building synthetic multicellular systems using bottom–up approaches. Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 24. 56–63. 14 indexed citations

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Zechner, Christoph, et al.. (2020). Stochasticity and determinism in cell fate decisions. Development. 147(14). 33 indexed citations

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Papadopoulos, Dimitrios K., Kassiani Skouloudaki, Ylva Engström, et al.. (2019). Control of Hox transcription factor concentration and cell-to-cell variability by an auto-regulatory switch. Development. 146(12). 18 indexed citations

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Milias‐Argeitis, Andreas, et al.. (2017). Parameter inference for stochastic single-cell dynamics from lineage tree data. BMC Systems Biology. 11(1). 52–52. 9 indexed citations

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Ruess, Jakob, Heinz Koeppl, & Christoph Zechner. (2017). Sensitivity estimation for stochastic models of biochemical reaction networks in the presence of extrinsic variability. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 146(12). 124122–124122. 2 indexed citations

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Stapel, L. Carine, Christoph Zechner, & Nadine L. Vastenhouw. (2017). Uniform gene expression in embryos is achieved by temporal averaging of transcription noise. Genes & Development. 31(16). 1635–1640. 19 indexed citations

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Albayrak, Cem, Christian Jordi, Christoph Zechner, et al.. (2016). Digital Quantification of Proteins and mRNA in Single Mammalian Cells. Molecular Cell. 61(6). 914–924. 138 indexed citations

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Zechner, Christoph, et al.. (2015). Bayesian inference of reaction kinetics from single-cell recordings across a heterogeneous cell population. Methods. 85. 22–35. 9 indexed citations

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Zechner, Christoph & Heinz Koeppl. (2014). Uncoupled Analysis of Stochastic Reaction Networks in Fluctuating Environments. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(12). e1003942–e1003942. 30 indexed citations

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Zechner, Christoph, et al.. (2012). Optimal variational perturbations for the inference of stochastic reaction dynamics. 5336–5341. 5 indexed citations

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Shutin, Dmitriy, Christoph Zechner, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, & H. Vincent Poor. (2011). Regularized Variational Bayesian Learning of Echo State Networks with Delay&Sum Readout. Neural Computation. 24(4). 967–995. 12 indexed citations

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