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Joël f. Pothier

Principal Investigator

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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Senior researcher in environmental genomics and systems biology

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I have a background in biochemistry and moved into microbial ecology. I then switched into plant pathogenic bacteria with a strong emphasis on genomics, especially for diagnostics, associated with bioinformatics. I also have expertise in microbiome metabarcoding and whole metagenome analysis.

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Zurich University of Applied Sciences

pPoC-IA: Plant point-of-care genetic assessment using isothermal amplification and long-read sequencing

A point-of-care diagnostic platform for plant pathogens combining isothermal nucleic acid amplification with high-throughput long-read sequencing. Enables rapid, multiplexed detection of multiple plant pathogen targets a...

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Joël f. Pothier

Principal Investigator

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Principal Investigator

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

PhD, Micorbial Ecology

2003 - 2007

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Pest and disease management

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DiagnosticsGenomicsMicrobiologyMicrobiomeMolecular Biology

Last updated Mar 2026