LABORATORY INFORMATION
LabID
WSL
WSL
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
Zurcherstrasse 111Birmensdorf ( 8903 ) Switzerland
+41 447392248
+41 44 7392215
Quality Prog the laboratory is based on a quality programme following quality insurance principle | YES |
Lab accredited (ISO 17025) for certain activities? Accreditation is taken according to ISO 17025. Whenever possible, please indicate for which pests and methods the laboratory is accredited. If your laboratory is accredited for a large number of pests and methods, for the moment it is planned to enter a standard phrase 'contact the laboratory'. | NO |
Lab participates in test performance studies? Ring-testing (or interlaboratory comparison): any evaluation of the performance of one method in the testing of defined samples by two or more laboratories. | YES |
Lab participates in proficiency-testing Proficiency testing: one measure of laboratory competence derived by means of an interlaboratory comparison by sending out defined samples. |
YES |
Lab offers training in diagnostics? | YES |
Expertise
Expert | Level | Organism | Techniques used | Years of experience |
Beenken Ludwig | genus | Coleosporium | Morphological Molecular |
16 |
Beenken Ludwig | genus | Melampsora | Morphological Molecular |
16 |
CORNEJO Carolina | species | Fusarium circinatum | Molecular |
6 |
Heinzelmann Renate | species | Armillaria mellea | Morphological Molecular |
7 |
Hölling Doris | species | Agrilus anxius | Morphological |
3 |
Hölling Doris | species | Agrilus planipennis | Morphological |
4 |
Hölling Doris | species | Anoplophora chinensis | Morphological |
13 |
Hölling Doris | species | Anoplophora glabripennis | Morphological |
13 |
Hölling Doris | species | emerald ash borer | Morphological |
4 |
PROSPERO Simone | genus | Bursaphelenchus | Molecular |
13 |
PROSPERO Simone | species | Cryphonectria parasitica | Morphological Molecular Classical microbiology |
23 |
QUELOZ Valentin | genus | Dothistroma sp. | Morphological Molecular |
13 |
QUELOZ Valentin | species | Bretziella fagacearum | Morphological |
3 |
QUELOZ Valentin | species | Ceratocystis fimbriata f. sp. platani | Morphological |
6 |
QUELOZ Valentin | species | Hymenoscyphus fraxineus | Morphological Molecular Classical microbiology |
18 |
QUELOZ Valentin | species | Mycosphaerella dearnessii | Morphological Molecular Classical microbiology |
13 |
Ruffner Beat | genus | Phytophthora | Molecular |
5 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Agrilus planipennis | Molecular |
2 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Brenneria goodwinii | Molecular Classical microbiology |
5 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Bursaphelenchus xylophilus | Molecular |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Ceratocystis fimbriata f. sp. platani | Molecular |
5 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Cryphonectria parasitica | Molecular |
3 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Dothistroma pini | Morphological Molecular |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Dothistroma septosporum | Morphological Molecular |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Gibbsiella quercinecans | Molecular Classical microbiology |
5 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Hymenoscyphus fraxineus | Molecular |
3 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Mycosphaerella dearnessii | Morphological Molecular |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Phytophthora cambivora | Molecular Classical microbiology |
3 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Phytophthora cinnamomi | Molecular Classical microbiology |
3 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Phytophthora ramorum | Molecular Classical microbiology |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi | Molecular Classical microbiology |
6 |
Ruffner Beat | species | Rahnella victoriana | Molecular Classical microbiology |
6 |

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