Nicola Rhyner

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate
Environmental Genomics und Systems Biology Research Group

www.zhaw.ch/iunr/umweltgenomik

Expertise and research interests

Molecular Ecology, Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing, Metabarcoding, Bioinformatics, Molecular Diagnostics

Educational background

MSc in Environment and Natural Resources
Major: Biodiversity & Ecosystems

BSc in Natural Resource Sciences
Major: Nature Management

Laboratory technician in Biology, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training

Projects

• 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
• Modernes Biodiversitätsmonitoring mit Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS-Methoden) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• EBDOmics – Comparative genomics of Enterobacter spp. causing Bulb Decay of Onions / Team member / Project ongoing
• Untersuchung des Teichmolches am Sihlsee / Team member / Project ongoing
• 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

Publications

• 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

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Vorburger, C., Siegrist, G., & Rhyner, N. (2017). Faithful vertical transmission but ineffective horizontal transmission of bacterial endosymbionts during sexual reproduction of the black bean aphid, Aphis fabae. Ecological Entomology, 42(2), 202-209.

Vorburger, C., Rhyner, N., Hartikainen, H., & Jokela, J. (2014). A set of new and cross-amplifying microsatellite loci for conservation genetics of the endangered stone crayfish (Austropotamobius torrentium). Conservation Genetics Resources, 6(3), 629-631.

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