Marijn Ceelen
Marijn Ceelen
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-USYS
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Research Topic
The main topic of my PhD research is the coevolution of bacterial predator Myxococcus xanthus and a bacteriophage that parasitizes it. Using experimental evolution, I want to see how M. xanthus adapt to the bacteriophage and at the same time to its prey bacteria.
Additionally, I have also looked into the relation between environmental resources and community compostion and stability with and without predation.
Lastly, I have investigated the activity of the CRISPR-Cas system in M. xanthus and the effect of spacer position on spacer activity.
For all of these projects I am very open to collaborations and student projects.
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Personal information and research history
I am from the Netherlands and have studied Biotechnology at Wageningen University. There I did my bachelor thesis on the effect of recombination on antibiotic resistance evolution in E. coli. During my masters I participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition (2019) together with a team of students. We managed to win the second prize with our project on a cure for plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa. Lastly, I went to the Fineran Lab in Dunedin, New Zealand, for half a year to work on regulation of anti-CRISPR expression in a bacteriophage.