CV and Publications

Experience

08/18 - present: Kreuzer Analytics. Bioinformatician and Data Scientist.

Main areas of expertise:

  • DNA methods for quality control for phytopharmaceuticals and natural ingredients in the food industry

  • Bioinformatics Pipelines

  • Data Science with R

  • Creating ETL and reporting pipelines

03/14 - 05/18: Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, PhD Fellow MedPlant

  • PhD thesis: Genomic Tools for the Identification of Medicinal Plants

  • Focus on high-throughput DNA analysis and bioinformatics

  • Covered Metabarcoding, Phylogenomics, novel approaches to develop DNA barcodes

03/15 - 01/18: Secondment at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), London.

  • Next-generation sequencing data generation and analysis

  • Work in regulatory framework for the development of DNA barcodes for the British Pharmacopoeia

09/13 - 12/13: Research Assistant (part-time), Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich.

02/13 - 08/13: Internship at the foundation Info Flora, Geneva.

Education

02/11 – 08/12: University of Zurich

Master of Science in Biology with specialization in Systematics and Evolution.

09/07 – 06/10: University of Zurich

Bachelor of Science in Biology with subsidiary subject in Cultural Anthropology

Publications

Kreuzer M, Howard C, Adhikari B, Pendry CA and Hawkins J (2019) Phylogenomic Approaches to DNA Barcoding of Herbal Medicines: Developing Clade-Specific Diagnostic Characters for Berberis; Frontiers in Plant Science; 10, 586.

Howard C, Hill E, Kreuzer M, Mali P, Masiero E, Slater A, Sgamma T (2019) DNA Authentication of St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) Commercial Products Targeting the ITS Region; Genes 10(4), 286

Xu M, Heidmarsson S, Thorsteinsdottir M, Kreuzer M, Hawkins J, Omarsdottir S, Olafsdottir ES (2018) Authentication of Iceland Moss (Cetraria islandica) by UPLC-QToF-MS chemical profiling and DNA barcoding; Food Chemistry; 245, 989-996.

Sgamma T, Lockie-Williams C, Kreuzer M, Williams S, Scheyhing U, Koch E, Slater A, Howard C (2017) DNA Barcoding for Industrial Quality Assurance. Planta Medica.

Kreuzer M, Tribsch A, Nyffeler R (2014) Ecological and genetic differentiation of two subspecies of Saussurea alpina in the Western Alps; Alpine Botany, 124, 49–58.