Tamar Kohn
EPFL ENAC IIE LEV
GR A0 402 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 08 91
+41 21 693 80 56
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Fields of expertise
Waterborne pathogens
Airborne pathogens
Environmental virology
Sanitation and hygiene
Organic micropollutants
Mission
We study the fate of viruses outside the host, mostly in water, sometimes in air.Biography
2023 - present Full Professor, EPFL2014 - 2023 Associate Professor, EPFL
2014 - present Adjunct researcher, Eawag
2007 - 2013 Assistant Professor, EPFL
2004 - 2006 Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley
2000 - 2004 PhD, Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
1999 Diploma, Environmental Sciences, ETHZ
Publications
Infoscience publications
Journal articles (last 3 years)
2024
Salt Supersaturation as an Accelerator of Influenza A Virus Inactivation in 1 μL Droplets
Environmental Science and Technology. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.4c04734.Impact of organic compounds on the stability of influenza A virus in deposited 1-μL droplets
mSphere. 2024. DOI : 10.1128/msphere.00414-24.The early communication stages between serine proteases and enterovirus capsids in the race for viral disintegration
Communications Biology. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s42003-024-06627-2.Stability of influenza A virus in droplets and aerosols is heightened by the presence of commensal respiratory bacteria
Journal of Virology. 2024. DOI : 10.1128/jvi.00409-24.Influence of Amino Acid Substitutions in Capsid Proteins of Coxsackievirus B5 on Free Chlorine and Thermal Inactivation
Environmental Science & Technology. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.3c10409.Monitoring an Emergent Pathogen at Low Incidence in Wastewater Using qPCR: Mpox in Switzerland
Food and Environmental Virology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s12560-024-09603-5.Comparison of Three Viral Nucleic Acid Preamplification Pipelines for Sewage Viral Metagenomics
Food and Environmental Virology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s12560-024-09594-3.Waterborne Virus Transport and Risk Assessment in Lake Geneva Under Climate Change
Earth's Future. 2024. DOI : 10.1029/2023EF003831.2023
Inactivation mechanisms of influenza A virus under pH conditions encountered in aerosol particles as revealed by whole-virus HDX-MS
mSphere. 2023. DOI : 10.1128/msphere.00226-23.Uptake without inactivation of human adenovirus type 2 by Tetrahymena pyriformis ciliates
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 2023. DOI : 10.1039/D3EM00116D.Observed Kinetics of Enterovirus Inactivation by Free Chlorine Are Host Cell-Dependent
Environmental Science & Technology. 2023. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.2c07048.The neuraminidase activity of influenza A virus determines the strain-specific sensitivity to neutralization by respiratory mucus
Journal of Virology. 2023. DOI : 10.1128/jvi.01271-23.Expiratory Aerosol pH: The Overlooked Driver of Airborne Virus Inactivation
Environmental Science & Technology. 2023. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.2c05777.Selective elimination of enterovirus genotypes by activated sludge and chlorination
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. 2023. DOI : 10.1039/D3EW00050H.Vertical distribution and seasonal dynamics of planktonic cyanobacteria communities in a water column of deep mesotrophic Lake Geneva
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1295193.Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
The Lancet Global Health. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00170-5.Salt-mediated inactivation of influenza A virus in 1- μl droplets exhibits exponential dependence on NaCl molality
bioRxiv. 2023. DOI : 10.1101/2023.12.21.572782.2022
Waterborne virus transport and the associated risks in a large lake
Water Research. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119437.Early detection and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants in wastewater using COJAC
Nature Microbiology. 2022. DOI : 10.1038/s41564-022-01185-x.Integrating Environmental Dimensions of “One Health” to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: Essential Research Needs
Environmental Science & Technology. 2022. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.2c01651.Doctoral theses
Inactivation of influenza A virus in expiratory droplets and aerosol particles and the associated physicochemical drivers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10449.Numerical simulation of the fate, transport and public health risks of enteric viruses in Lake Geneva
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10322.Effect of wastewater treatment and environmental exposure on an enterovirus population
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8985.Toward biocontrol of waterborne pathogens: contributions of protists to virus removal and associated mechanisms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9255.Inactivation of waterborne viruses by ozone: Kinetics and mechanisms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9370.Susceptibility of Enterovirus B strains to disinfectants and heat
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9343.Virus transfer at the skin-liquid interface and its associated risks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8961.Genotypic, phenotypic and mechanistic insights into viruses with resistance to common water disinfectants
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7538.Virus inactivation mechanisms in human urine and fecal sludge
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6579.Mechanistic insight into virus disinfection : influence of virus characteristics, solution composition and surface interactions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6166.Spatio-Temporal Presence of Micropollutants and their Metabolites in Lake Geneva and Susceptibility to Direct and Indirect Photodegradation Processes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5677.Sources, Spreading and Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Resistant Bacteria in Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5637.Virus Inactivation during Water Treatment : the Role of Virus Aggregation and the Disinfection Potential of Sunlight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5873.Virus Inactivation by Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Fenton-like Processes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5295.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering