Quirin Kupper

Research unit: Forest Health and biotic Interaction – Research group: Phytopathology

• Laboratory management Plant Protection Laboratory
        - Organisation and maintenance of the laboratory infrastructure
        - Maintenance of biosafety level 3
        - Purchase of laboratory material
• Method development, validation and establishment for molecular diagnostics of forest relevant quarantine organisms
• Molecular biological work in various research projects
        - Sanger-Seq & fragment analyses (ABI3500)
        - TaqMan qPCR
        - NGS (Nanopore, PacBio, Illumina)
• Introduction and supervision of guests, students (BA, MSc), PhDs and PostDocs
• Vocational training of 3rd year biology lab technicians, including writing and supervising the final practical exam
• Member of the eDNA steering committee of WSL

• 2019 - today: Vocational trainer for biology lab technicians at WSL
• 2017 - today: Biology lab technician in the group Phytopathology at WSL
• 2014 - 2016: BA-studies Environmental engineer at ZHAW Wädenswil, without degree
• 2013 - 2014: Microbiologcal lab technician, Bioexam AG
• 2012 - 2012: Temp in the group Forest entomology for four months, WSL
• 2009 - 2012: Apprenticeship biology lab technician, WSL