Publications of the ZHAW Departement Life Sciences and Facility Management

Sabani, Besmira; Leone, Martina; Gasser, Lynn; Sumrall, Eric; Meile, Susanne; Inderbitzin, Joelle; Razansky, Daniel; Schmelcher, Mathias; Loessner, Martin; Riedl, Rainer; Lehmann, Steffi,

2026.

Targeted delivery of peptidoglycan hydrolases (PGH) via engineered extracellular vesicles (EVs) to clear intracellular bacterial infections.

Materials Today Bio.

40(103567).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37569

Wächter, Daniel,

2026.

PFAS-Analytik in Böden : Interlabor-Vergleichsmessungen.

Wädenswil:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2588.2

Erasmus, M. Frank; Bedinger, Daniel; Hopkins, Elizabeth; Ferguson, Ginger; Strickler, Justine; Graff, Christilyn P.; Summers, Samantha R.; Capehart, Stacy L.; Slocum, Joshua D.; Richardson, Crystal; Kumar, Sumit; Sun, Zhifei; Shang, Yujie; Zhang, Jixian; Gu, Ming; Yi, Lixia; Wellner, Alon; Zheng, Shuangjia; Lu, Wei; Sormanni, Pietro; Greenig, Matthew; Zhang, Haiping; Mann, Brendan T.; Baghbanzadeh, Mahdi; Rahnavard, Ali; Moore, Gregory L.; Sun, Huaiyu; Ding, Ying; Nisthal, Alex; Kanodia, Jitendra; Bernett, Matthew J.; Pélissier, Aurélien; Shao, Yanjun; Rodríguez Martínez, María; Ramesh, Karthik; Nastri, Horacio; Evers, Andreas; Abdelatif, Anhar; Bordner, Andrew J.; Bordyuh, Mykola; Heo, Lim; Kidd, Brian A.; Tetikol, H. Serhat; Wei, Shuai; Shin, Jung-Eun; Peckner, Ryan; Manley, Leigh; Lunge, Ajitesh; Devasurmutt, Yashas; Guloglu, Bora; Copoiu, Liviu; McGibbon, Miles; Fernández-Quintero, Monica L.; Mishra, Nitesh; Callaghan, Sean M.; Swanson, Olivia M.; Bader, Daniel L. V.; Ferguson, James A.; Raghavan, Sai S. R.; Némoz, Benjamin; Maillie, Colleen A.; Bowman, Charles; Briney, Bryan; Ward, Andrew B.; Marcatili, Paolo; Akbar, Rahmad; He, Bing; Wu, Fandi; Yao, Jianhua; Hu, Bin; Kucer, Michal; Gibson, Kaetlyn Rose; Somasundaram, Rahul; Hung, Li‐Wei; Kaszuba, Tomasz; Fremont, Daved H.; Jeong, Hyeongsun; Kurella, Vinodh Babu; Malhotra, Shipra; Kumar, Satyendra; Liu, Yanyun; Xu, Lingling; Misa, Joshua; St. John, Alexander Nicholas; Vogt, Jeff; Dávila-Hernández, Fátima A.; Xu, Da; Chungyoun, Michael; Huggan, Zyaja D.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Parkinson, Jonathan; Ko, Young Su; Wang, Wei; Geiger, Franziska; Ziegler, Jonathon D.; Haas, Nikhil; Challacombe, Chance; Qamar, Ahmad; Singh, Akshita; Tang, Yi-Ching; An, Zhiqiang; Jiang, Xiaoqian; Kim, Yejin; Zhao, Xinyan; Swanson, Erik; Klattig, Jürgen; Winkler, Karsten; Bataa, Tschimegma; Sandig, Volker; Denzler, Lilian; Liu, Chunan; Brezski, Randall J.; Spector, Laura; Perea-Schmittle, Katheryn; D’Angelo, Sara; Ferrara, Fortunato; Bradbury, Andrew R. M.,

2026.

A blinded, prospective benchmark of in silico antibody discovery anchored to experimental affinity and developability.

Nature Biotechnology.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37576

Steinhauser, Verena; Klos, Bea; Föhr, Rebecca; Wolf, Sophia; Dichiser, Eva; Low, Julia; Brombach, Christine; Albertsen, Nadja; Thoolen, Stijn; Hagson, Hannes; Enck, Paul; Mack, Isabelle,

2026.

Dietary supply and reporting reliability during Antarctic overwintering under extreme isolation : a food image-based analysis.

Frontiers in Nutrition.

13(1855383).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37416

Cazzaniga, Sara Giulia; Lauber, Thomas; van den Hoogen, Johan; Beaury, Evelyn M.; Bueno, C. Guillermo; Bever, James D.; Damasceno, Gabriella; Catford, Jane; Lenoir, Jonathan; Martin, Adam; Mori, Akira S.; Novakovskiy, Alexander; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; González‐Robles, Ana; de Gasper, André Luís; Moles, Angela; Stanisci, Angela; Csecserits, Anikó; Jentsch, Anke; Kuzemko, Anna; Perea, Antonio J.; Nerlekar, Ashish; Munje, Avishkar; Güler, Behlül; Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja; Hérault, Bruno; Pinho, Bruno X.; Baraloto, Chris; Rossi, Christian; Hending, Daniel; Laughlin, Daniel C.; Rogers, Dave; Schellenberger Costa, David; Thakur, Dinesh; Uogintas, Domas; Chacón‐Madrigal, Eduardo; Alvarez-Davila, Esteban; Weiher, Evan; Thomas, Evert; Gonçalves, Fernando; Rodrigues, Flávio; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Schurr, Frank M.; Essl, Franz; Zizka, Georg; Bonari, Gianmaria; Swacha, Grzegorz; Chen, Han Y. H.; Bruelheide, Helge; Ford, Henry; Wang, Hua-Feng; Biurrun, Idoia; Aubin, Isabelle; Dembicz, Iwona; Willie, Jacob; Altman, Jan; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Lichstein, Jeremy W.; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Dolezal, Jiri; Cornelissen, Johannes H. C.; Hunter, John; Messier, Julie; Dengler, Jürgen; Homeier, Jürgen; Orwin, Kate H.; Korznikov, Kirill; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Macía, Manuel J.; Schmidt, Marco; Varricchione, Marco; Bergmann Carlucci, Marcos; Spasojevic, Marko; Giorgis, Melisa A.; Chytrý, Milan; El‐Sheikh, Mohamed A.; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Kraft, Nathan J. B.; Mohanbabu, Neha; Phillips, Oliver L.; Reich, Peter B.; Pielech, Remigiusz; Arasa‐Gisbert, Ricard; Guarino, Riccardo; Testolin, Riccardo; Tarifa, Rubén; Mukul, Sharif A.; Phartyal, Shyam S.; Schmitt, Sylvain; Haider, Sylvia; Dziuba, Tetiana; Domingues, Tomas; Liu, Udayangani; Golub, Valentin,; Silva, Vasco; Fontana, Veronika; Vandvik, Vigdis; Kissling, W. Daniel; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Winter, Marten; Crowther, Thomas W.; Delavaux, Camille S.,

2026.

Mycorrhizal strategy of non-native plants varies with biome and disturbance.

Nature Ecology & Evolution.

10(9), pp. 1644-1657.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37412

Jaisli, Isabel; Buchmann, Fabienne; Forrer, Carmen; Grüter, Roman,

2026.

Exploring mountain crops as an alternative to livestock production in the transformation of Swiss mountain agriculture.

In:

Barjolle, Dominique; Chmieliński, Paweł; Miller, David, eds.,

Innovation and the Future of Rural Development in Europe.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 335-362.

Schmitt, Emilia; Forrer, Carmen; Sorg, Loredana; Barjolle, Dominique,

2026.

Exploring the diffusion of organic agriculture in the mountain region of Grisons, Switzerland : a social network analysis approach.

In:

Barjolle, Dominique; Chmieliński, Paweł; Miller, David, eds.,

Innovation and the future of rural development in Europe : understanding the science-society-policy interface from a local and regional perspective.

Cham:

Palgrave Macmillan.

pp. 303-333.

Carron, Gil; Maret, Marilou; Farinet, Robert; Bosshard, Philip; Gartmann, Florentina; Rüegg, Nadine; Yildirim, Selçuk; Carlen, Christoph; Schmautz, Zala; Camps, Cédric; Tran, Daniel,

2026.

Trade-offs between yield, physiological performance, and quality in basil (Ocimum basilicum) cultivated in hydroponic versus conventional soil-based greenhouse system.

Frontiers in Agronomy.

8(1866628).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37333

Jossen, Valentin; Eibl-Schindler, Regine,

2026.

Single-use bioreactors.

In:

Reference Module in Life Sciences.

Amsterdam:

Elsevier.

Stucki, Matthias; Bolliger, Corinna; Minder, Nina; Vorburger, Robert; Gantenbein, Somara; Bättig, Petra; Koch, David,

2026.

Green Betty – Nachhaltigkeit auf dem Teller sichtbar machen.

Wädenswil:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37310

Stefanini, Camilla; Sperisen, Christoph; Chybicki, Igor; Guillaume, Frédéric; Kurz, Mirjam; Csilléry, Katalin,

2026.

Hybrid vigor and outbreeding depression after 100 years of replicate introduction of Caucasian beech to European forests.

Heredity.

135(9), pp. 647-659.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37309

Dengler, Jürgen; Dembicz, Iwona; Kozub, Łukasz,

2026.

Translation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metrics.

Vegetation Classification and Survey.

7, pp. 95-101.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37304

Kim, Dongwook; Gil, Manuel; Katoh, Kazutaka; Dessimoz, Christophe,

2026.

AmpliPhy improves gene trees by adding homologous sequences without affecting alignments.

Bioinformatics Advances.

6(1), pp. vbag222.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37568

Gonzalez Martinez, Andrea; Wrase, Isabelle,

2026.

Energie- und Marktunsicherheit smart steuern.

Immobilia.

93(8), pp. 40-41.

Hochreutener, Adrian; Bürgi, Sophie; Pickering, Catherine Marina; Signer, Claudio; Rupf, Reto,

2026.

Impacts of outdoor recreation on mammals and birds in mountain landscapes : a systematic review of the past two decades and directions for future research.

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism.

55(101089).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37303

Drenova, Nataliya V.; Ignatov, Alexandr N.; Rezzonico, Fabio; Bondarenko, Galina N.; Belkin, Denis L; Kondratyev, Maxim O.; Dzhalilov, Fevzi S.-U.; Smits, Theo H. M.,

2026.

The rodZ repeat region of Erwinia amylovora : genetic diversity and possible functional implications.

Journal of Plant Pathology.

Sundin, George W.; Zhao, Youfu F.; Emeriewen, Ofere F.; Slack, Suzanne M.; Yuan, Xiaochen; Zeng, Quan; Castiblanco, Luisa F.; Rezzonico, Fabio; Khan, Awais,

2026.

Fire blight research : 2026 and beyond.

Journal of Plant Pathology.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37289

Dengler, Jürgen, ed.,

2026.

Report from the 7th Master Summer School “Biodiversity Monitoring”, Preda, Switzerland, 18-29 August 2025.

Wädenswil:

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37935

Gonzalez Martinez, Andrea; Meslec, Mihaela; Schmitter, Paul; Ashworth, Simon,

2026.