Tamar Kohn

Ce cours fournit aux étudiants une vue d'ensemble sur les bases de la chimie de l'environnement: chimie des systèmes naturels et le devenir des produits chimiques anthropiques dans les systèmes naturels. Il permet aux étudiants d'appliquer les concepts chimiques généraux aux systèmes naturels.

Introduction to environmental engineering

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Des thèmes clés des sciences et ingénierie de l'environnement seront présentés, appuyés d'exemples - de l'équateur aux pôles - comprenant les processus atmosphériques et le changement climatique, la qualité de l'eau, les ressources énergétiques et le dével. urbain, avec technologies étonnantes.

Tamar Kohn

Expertise

Prix et distinctions

2025

Proteolytic Activity and Substrate Specificity of Lake Geneva

Lognormal distributions capture site-specific variability in enteric virus concentrations in wastewater

Performance and characteristics of three digital PCR platforms for detection and quantification of viral targets in wastewater

Unraveling the Inactivation Mechanisms of Human Adenovirus 2 in Sunlight Disinfection: Synergism between Direct and Indirect Pathways

Comparative characterization of bronchial and nasal mucus reveals key determinants of influenza A virus inhibition

Estimated transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants from wastewater are unbiased and robust to differential shedding

Transmission dynamics of Norovirus GII and Enterovirus in Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021-2022) as evidenced in wastewater

Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 at acidic pH is driven by partial unfolding of spike

Conserved specificity of extracellular wastewater peptidases revealed by multiplex substrate profiling by mass spectrometry

Seasonality of cyanobacteria and eukaryotes in Lake Geneva and the impacts of cyanotoxins on growth of the model ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis

Diversity of lake bacteria promotes human echovirus inactivation

2024

Dependence of aerosol-borne influenza A virus infectivity on relative humidity and aerosol composition

Salt Supersaturation as an Accelerator of Influenza A Virus Inactivation in 1 μL Droplets

Impact of organic compounds on the stability of influenza A virus in deposited 1-μL droplets

The early communication stages between serine proteases and enterovirus capsids in the race for viral disintegration

Influence of Amino Acid Substitutions in Capsid Proteins of Coxsackievirus B5 on Free Chlorine and Thermal Inactivation

Stability of influenza A virus in droplets and aerosols is heightened by the presence of commensal respiratory bacteria

Comparison of Three Viral Nucleic Acid Preamplification Pipelines for Sewage Viral Metagenomics

Monitoring an Emergent Pathogen at Low Incidence in Wastewater Using qPCR: Mpox in Switzerland

Waterborne Virus Transport and Risk Assessment in Lake Geneva Under Climate Change

Inactivation of influenza A virus in expiratory droplets and aerosol particles and the associated physicochemical drivers

Numerical simulation of the fate, transport and public health risks of enteric viruses in Lake Geneva

Toward biocontrol of waterborne pathogens: contributions of protists to virus removal and associated mechanisms

Effect of wastewater treatment and environmental exposure on an enterovirus population

Susceptibility of Enterovirus B strains to disinfectants and heat

Inactivation of waterborne viruses by ozone: Kinetics and mechanisms

Virus transfer at the skin-liquid interface and its associated risks

Genotypic, phenotypic and mechanistic insights into viruses with resistance to common water disinfectants

Virus inactivation mechanisms in human urine and fecal sludge

Mechanistic insight into virus disinfection : influence of virus characteristics, solution composition and surface interactions

Virus Inactivation during Water Treatment : the Role of Virus Aggregation and the Disinfection Potential of Sunlight

Spatio-Temporal Presence of Micropollutants and their Metabolites in Lake Geneva and Susceptibility to Direct and Indirect Photodegradation Processes

Sources, Spreading and Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Resistant Bacteria in Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Virus Inactivation by Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Fenton-like Processes

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Environmental chemistry

Introduction to environmental engineering