CV Marjolein Bruijning

Publications

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)

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: 46,000 (October 2025)

Selected invited talks

  • 2025: Evolutionary Demography Society (Keynote, Oxford, UK). Unravelling the demographic mechanisms behind evolutionary change
  • 2025: ESEB Meeting (Barcelona, Spain). The bacterial march towards endosymbiosis: on-ramps and off-ramps.
  • 2025: Seminar at Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) (Berlin, Germany). Understanding the evolution of hosts (and their microbes)
  • 2024: Seminar at KU Leuven (Belgium). Evolutionary implications of host-microbe interactions in a changing world
  • 2024: SymbNET International Conference (Olhao, Portugal). Selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments
  • 2023: PE&RC day (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Evolution of host-microbe interactions
  • 2023: ASM Microbe (Houston, USA). Natural selection for imprecise vertical microbiome transmission under variable environments
  • 2022: 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: Seminar (virtual). Sorbonne University, department of Phenotypic variability and adaptation.Selection on microbiome transmission to optimize host phenotypic variation
  • 2018: 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.
  • 2015: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (ESA) (Baltimore, USA). A cost benefit analysis of dioecy in tropical trees.