Sara Jordan

Work at ZHAW

Position

PhD Student

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science in Life Sciences / Applied Computational Life Sciences
  ZHAW
  2020 - 2022
• Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences / Molecular Bioanalytics
  FHNW
  2017 - 2020

Projects

• EBDOmics – Comparative genomics of Enterobacter spp. causing Bulb Decay of Onions / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Jordan, S., de Maayer, P., Smits, T. H. M., & Coutinho, T. A. (2026). Enterobacter species : opportunistic human and plant pathogens with plant‐beneficial traits. Molecular Plant Pathology, 27(3), e70231. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.70231
• Kalbermatten, C. L., Jordan, S., Pothier, J. F., Nägele, H.-J., Smits, T. H. M., & Merkle, W. (2026). Optimizing trickle-bed reactor performance for hydrogenotrophic methane production in power-to-methane systems. Process Biochemistry, 163, 66–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2026.02.010
• Jordan, S., Pothier, J. F., Rezzonico, F., Kvitko, B. H., Coutinho, T. A., & Smits, T. H. M. (2026). Kosakonia beeri sp. nov. and Phytobacter cepae sp. nov. isolated from onion (Allium cepa). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 76(1). https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.007043
• Jordan, S., Pothier, J. F., de Maayer, P., Broders, K., Kvitko, B. H., Coutinho, T. A., & Smits, T. (2025). Design of genus-specific semi-nested primers for simple and accurate identification of Enterobacter strains. BMC Microbiology, 25(1), 456. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-025-04175-1
• De Maayer, P., Green, T., Jordan, S., Smits, T. H. M., & Coutinho, T. A. (2025). Pan-genome analysis of the Enterobacter hormaechei complex highlights its genomic flexibility and pertinence as a multidrug resistant pathogen. BMC Genomics, 26(1), 406. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11590-1
• Rezzonico, F., Bobushova, S., Gaganidze, D., Konurbaeva, M., Mukhanov, S., Jordan, S., Sadunishvili, T., Drenova, N., Smits, T., & Doolotkeldieva, T. (2024). Epidemiological description of fire blight introduction patterns to Central Asia and the Caucasus region based on CRISPR spacer typing and genome analysis. Phytopathology Research, 6(66). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42483-024-00283-4

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Coutinho, T. A., de Maayer, P., Jordan, S., & Smits, T. (2024). Enterobacter. In W. B. Whitman (Ed.), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB), Online. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01145.pub2

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