CV Marjolein Bruijning

Research

  • 2022-present | Assistant professor
    Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • 2019-2022 | Post-doctoral research
    Princeton University (USA)
  • 2013-2019 | PhD candidate
    Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
  • 2012-2013 | Junior researcher
    Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2010-2012 | MSc. research
    Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2007-2010 | BSc. research
    Radboud University Nijmegen

Grants and Awards

  • 2023 | Veni Grant
    NWO Domain Science. Pathogens, microbiomes and host evolution in a world of global change
  • 2020 | Rubicon Fellowship
    NWO Domain Science, held at Princeton University, USA. The uninvadable microbiome: towards a persistently protective microbiome
  • 2016 | Christine Mohrmann Grant
    Annual prize for promising female PhD candidates, awarded by the Executive Board of Radboud University
  • 2014 | Van Nieuwenhoven Prize
    Annual prize for the best master student in biology and medical biology at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
  • 2012 | Unilever Research Prize, in biology.
    Annual prize for outstanding master thesis research at Dutch universities.
  • 2012 | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    Short-term fellowship awarded for the study: Surviving in a cosexual world: dioecy as a reproductive strategy

Software

  • Trackdem
    Bruijning M., Visser M.D., Hallmann C.A., Jongejans, E. trackdem: Automated particle tracking to obtain population counts and size distributions from videos in R. Available on CRAN. Downloads: 33,000 (February 2024)

International presentations

2024

  • Invited speaker. SymbNET International Conference, Olhao (Portugal). Selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments

2023

  • Invited speaker. PE&RC day, Utrecht (the Netherlands). Evolution of host-microbe interactions
  • Invited speaker. ASM Microbe, Houston (USA). Natural selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments

2022

  • Oral presentation. Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM), Lunteren (the Netherlands). The ecology of the microbiome and its evolutionary consequences
  • Oral presentation. Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting, Ede (the Netherlands). Natural selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments
  • Invited speaker at the workshop ‘Host-Microbiome environmental change’. Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Kastanienbaum (Switzerland). Natural selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments

2020

  • Invited seminar (virtual). Sorbonne University, department of Phenotypic variability and adaptation. Selection on microbiome transmission to optimize host phenotypic variation

2019

  • Oral presentation. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Turku (Finland). The evolution of variance control

2018

  • Invited seminar. Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Dübendorf (Switzerland). The importance of plastic and genetic factors for Daphnia populations as revealed by Integral Projection Modeling.

2017

  • Seminar KU Leuven (Belgium), Seminar Series in Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity. How can fitness be optimized?
  • Oral presentation. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen (the Netherlands). The importance of plastic and genetic factors for Daphnia populations as revealed by Integral Projection Modeling.

2015

  • Invited speaker. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (ESA), Baltimore (USA). A cost benefit analysis of dioecy in tropical trees.
  • Lightning talk and poster presentation. Evolutionary Demography Society Annual Meeting, Lunteren (the Netherlands). Using automated particle tracking to obtain demographic information from video sequences in R
  • Oral presentation. Centre for Avian Population Studies Symposium, Zeist (the Netherlands). Naar een effectief kolganzen beheer in Nederland

2013

  • Poster presentation. Evolutionary Demography Society Annual Meeting, Odense (Denmark). Quantifying the importance of plasticity and evolution in aquatic ectotherms.
  • Oral presentation. Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM), Lunteren (the Netherlands). Living in a cosexual world: dioecy as a reproductive strategy.

2012

  • Oral presentation Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM), Lunteren (the Netherlands). The effect of shade stress on the epigenetic and phenotypic patterns in inbred and outbred lines of the plant species Scabiosa columbaria.