Nicola Rhyner

Work at ZHAW

Focus

• Molecular Ecology
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Next-Generation Sequencing
• Bioinformatics

Experience

• Research Associate
  ZHAW
  01 / 2022 - today
• Research Assistant
  ZHAW
  11 / 2018 - 12 / 2021
• Lab Technician
  Empa
  01 / 2013 - 07 / 2013
• Lab technician
  Eawag
  09 / 2011 - 06 / 2012

Education and Continuing education

Education

• MSc in Environment and Natural Resources / Ecosystems & Biodiversity
  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2019 - 08 / 2021
• BSc Natural Resource Sciences / Nature Management
  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2013 - 09 / 2016
• Laboratory technician in Biology, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training
  Eawag
  08 / 2008 - 07 / 2011

Projects

• ActinOmics: bioprospecting and genomics of actinobacteria isolated from the Marchica lagoon / Team member / Project ongoing
• Entwicklung einer eDNA-Methode zur Erfassung der Artenvielfalt von Wirbellosen im urbanen Raum / Project leader / Project ongoing
• ToViPoRe: massive detection of tomato brown rugose fruit virus by high-throughput sequencing / Team member / Project ongoing
• EBDOmics – Comparative genomics of Enterobacter spp. causing Bulb Decay of Onions / Team member / Project ongoing
• Modernes Biodiversitätsmonitoring mit Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS-Methoden) / Project leader / Project completed
• Förderung des Seesaiblings im Zürichsee / Team member / Project completed
• Genetische Analysen fürs Seeforellenmanagement im Einzugsgebiet des Zürichsees / Project leader / Project completed
• Wildlife@Campus Grüental - kleine Säugetiere im Fokus / Team member / Project completed
• Untersuchung des Teichmolches am Sihlsee / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Kaufmann, Moritz; Li, Leilei; Van Poucke, Christof; Rhyner, Nicola; De Tender, Caroline; Uyttendaele, Mieke; Heyndrickx, Marc; Zipfel, Cyril; Pothier, Joël F.; Bart, Cottyn,

  2024.

  Soil type and associated microbiomes influences chitin’s growth-promotion effect in lettuce.

  Phytobiomes Journal.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-12-23-0132-R

• Pothier, Joël F.; Bolt, Valentin; Arn, Fabienne; Frasson, David; Rhyner, Nicola; Sievers, Martin,

  2023.

  High-quality draft genome sequence of Streptomyces albidoflavus CCOS 2040, isolated from a Swiss soil sample.

  Microbiology Resource Announcements.

  12(3), pp. e01225-22.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01225-22

• Tschirren, Linda; Bachmann, David Andrea; Güler, Ali Cem; Blaser, Oliver; Rhyner, Nicola; Seitz, Andreas; Zbinden, Erich; Wahli, Thomas; Segner, Helmut; Refardt, Dominik,

  2021.

  MyFishCheck : a model to assess fish welfare in aquaculture.

  Animals.

  11(1), pp. 145.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11010145

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