Nicola Rhyner

Nicola Rhyner
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
Einsiedlerstrasse 31
8820 Wädenswil
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
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Pothier, Joël F.; Bolt, Valentin; Arn, Fabienne; Frasson, David; Rhyner, Nicola; Sievers, Martin,
2023.
Microbiology Resource Announcements.
12(3), pp. e01225-22.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01225-22
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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.