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My expertise is based on the knowledge and experience gained from my studies in botany (UZH), postgraduate studies in environmental sciences (UZH) and PhD in ecology and evolution (UBE), as well as professional experience in a for-profit company and many years of work in a research institute (WSL).
Research on fungal genetic diversity has been the backbone of my scientific career—since 2001 in the Biodiversity Group, since 2015 in the Phytopathology Group. I discovered new fungal species and new mycoviruses, reconstructed the evolutionary history of fungal speciation, and disentangled the genetic diversity of endangered fungal species. My role in collaboration works consisted mainly in developing the methodological approach to sample the genetic diversity of fungi, plants, insects, algae, and mosses, using single sequence repeats (SSR), quantitative PCR, metabarcoding, or long-read deep sequencing.
Since 2015, I focused on phytopathological research to detect molecularly invasive species from environmental material, to understand the biology and develop tools against invasive fungal pathogens. Additionally, I am highly interested in hunting fungal viruses to verify their use as biocontrol agents against tree diseases. To study the virome of pathogens, I established a collaboration with Prof. N. Suzuki's virology lab at Okayama University (Japan), where I was able to perfect my biological and technical knowledge of viruses in 2020 and 2022. I implemented in Phytopathology laboratory technical approaches based on new generation RNA sequencing, e.g., Nanopore direct RNA sequencing. At present, I am applying Illumina RNA-seq to decode the virome of Armillaria spp. (root rot disease) from Swiss populations.
I am also involved in outreach publications and activities to make scientific content accessible to a broad public. Additionally, I am regularly giving seminars at the University of Applied Sciences of Zurich on detection of pathogens from environmental material, and I am the supervisor for vocational apprentices at WSL.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGYno. 2 (2024): e16583-e16583
MYCOSCIENCEno. 5 (2023): 123-127
Virus research (2023): 199228-199228
VIRUS RESEARCH (2023)
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