Dr. Martin Zwanzig

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Dr. Martin Zwanzig

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Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

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TUD Dresden University of Technology Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften, Institut für Waldwachstum und Forstliche Informatik

01062 Dresden

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Research interests

I am an ecological modeller and theoretical ecologist particularly interested in the evolution of ecological interactions and how plastic behaviour of individuals affects populations, communities and ecosystem resilience. Besides statistical and top-down approaches, I develop and analyze individual-based models to investigate the bottom-up mechanisms that define the structure and dynamics of ecological systems.

My research interest spans the following subjects:

Current research deals with the simulation of (i) the feedback between the ontogeny of xylem formation and water availability, (ii) the effect of silvicultural measures on reforestation dynamics at huge disturbance areas, and (iii) the eco-evolutionary dynamics of inter- and intra-specific trait composition in ecological communities.

My PhD focused on the propagation of antibiotic resistances in aquatic environments. The prefered platform of antibiotic resistence genes are plasmids, which constitute important genetic elements for bacterial adaptation and diversity. I use mathematical models such as systems of ordinary differential equations, cellular automaton and individual based models to investigate mechanisms that influence plasmid transfer and persistence under various ecological conditions.

Check out the models PlasSim and PlasmidActionIBM in our model gallery

Through my GitHub account https://github.com/mzwanzig I provide access to the source code (+apps) of these models and, in addition, tools for data analysis with R, including a script-based guide for a systematic data exploration, steps for tree height model development and calibration as well as routines for fitting and analysing enzyme kinetics with the classical Michaelis Menten and a derivate approach that we named SINH, which is able to deal with the effect of substrate inhibition.

A list of current topics for Bachelor and Master thesis can be found here:
current topics for supervised student research

Projects

Principal Investigator

• XyLife - Individual-based modelling of xylem life history to advance projections of tree responses to climate change. DFG funded research project (549123622, 2025-2028).
• ResEt-Fi - Wegbereiter Wiederbewaldung: Regionales Flächenmanagement zur Entwicklung multifunktionaler Wälder auf gestörten Fichtenflächen. (A supra-regional field trial in Thuringia to test different management options for the development of multifunctional forests on disturbed spruce areas;) Teilprojekt 6. Eingebettet im BMBF-Verbundvorhaben: „Regionale Innovationsgruppen für eine klimaschützende Wald- und Holzwirtschaft (REGULUS)“ (033L304F; BMBF, 2023-2026)
• DiMo 2: Follow-up R&D project with the state-owned forest service Sachsenforst (see below); (09/2022-11/2022)
• DiMo: R&D project for the state-owned forest service Sachsenforst; Development of a digital solution for import, storage, evaluation and presentation of the data of the Saxon bark beetle monitoring system, in particular of the focal species Ips typographus and Pityogenes chalcographus; (11/2021-03/2022)

Involved as employee:

• Models for Genomic Alterations and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Environments; Provision of Funds by "Support-the-best" pool and Graduate Academy of TU Dresden (2014 -2017) [Role: PhD student]
  Have a look at the project in our research overview
• SAPHIR - Saxonian Platform for high Performance Irrigation funded by ESF (European Social Fund, 07-12/2013); [Role: Research assistant at Chair of Hydrology at TU Dresden]
• Interactions of Organic Matter and Microbial Dynamics in Pasture Soils along Management Chronosequences funded by DFG (German Research Fundation, 2012 - 2013); www.tropicalmountainforest.org; [Role: Involved as Student Assistant and during Master Thesis]

Scientific vita

• Since May 2023 Post-doc representative in the UniWiND Advisory Board
• Since June 2022 Speaker of the Postdoc Council of the Postdoc Center HZDR-TUD
• 2019 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) awarded by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Technische Universität Dresden
• 2015 Guest scientist at the Brockhurst Lab (Experimental Evolution), Department of Biology, University of York, UK
• Since 2014 Scientific research & teaching staff at the Chair of Forest Biometrics and Forest Systems Analysis, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2013 Research Assistant, Chair of Hydrology, Technische Universität Dresden

Degrees and study-accompanying emplyoment/activities

• 2013 Master of Science in Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management at TU Dresden (interdisciplinary course of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences)
• 2012 DAAD scholarship, Research stay at the Estación Científica San Francisco (ECSF), Ecuador (Research Centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG))
• 2011 Student assistant at the Department of Soil Physics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
• 2010-2013 Tutor at the Institute of Geography, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2007-2010 Bachelor of Science in Geography, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2009-2013 Tutor and Student assistant at the Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2009 Internship at the Department of Soil Physics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Lectures & Courses

• Biometrie (Bachelor Forest Sciences) [Biometrics; Exercises]
• Individual-based Ecology and Modelling Individuen-basierte Ökologie und Modellierung (Master Forest Sciences) [Individual-based Ecology and Modelling; Lectures + Exercises]
• Lebensraumnutzung von Wildtieren (Master Forest Sciences) [Habitat use of wildlife; Lectures + Exercises]

Publications

for Martin Zwanzig née Werisch (marriage in 2017); ORCID; RG; Google Scholar

Peer-reviewed paper

12 Entries

2024

• Shrub aboveground biomass estimation considering bulk volume geometry: general and specific models for 14 species in the Mediterranean central ChileKutchartt, E., Gayoso, J., Guerra, J., Pirotti, F., Castagneri, D., Matula, R., Rojas, Y. & 2 others, 28 Nov 2024, In: New Forests. 56, 1, 13Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2023

• Determination of optimal tree height models and calibration designs for Araucaria araucana and Nothofagus pumilio in mixed stands affected to different levels by anthropogenic disturbance in South-Central ChileZhou, X., Kutchartt, E., Hernández, J., Corvalán, P., Promis, Á. & Zwanzig, M., 21 Apr 2023, In: Annals of Forest Science. 80(2023), 1, 36 p., 18Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2022

• Basic wood density and moisture content of 14 shrub species under two different site conditions in the Chilean Mediterranean shrublandKutchartt, E., Gayoso, J., Guerra, J., Pirotti, F., Castagneri, D., Anfodillo, T., Rojas, Y. & 2 others, Apr 2022, In: Forest systems. 31, 1, 7 p., eSC01Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2021

• Cooperative root graft networks benefit mangrove trees under stressVovides, A. G., Wimmler, M., Schrewe, F., Balke, T., Zwanzig, M., Piou, C., Delay, E. & 2 others, 5 May 2021, In: Communications biology. 4, 1, 513Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Outcomes of a quantitative analysis of 48 soil chronosequence studies in humid mid and high latitudes: Importance of vegetation in driving podzolizationZwanzig, L., Zwanzig, M. & Sauer, D., Jan 2021, In:  Catena : an interdisciplinary journal of soil science, hydrology, geomorphology focusing on geoecology and landscape evolution. 196, 104821Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• The ecology of plasmid-coded antibiotic resistance: a basic framework for experimental research and modelingZwanzig, M., Jan 2021, In: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19, p. 586-599, 14 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
• Aboveground tree biomass of araucaria araucana in southern Chile: Measurements and multi-objective optimization of biomass modelsKutchartt, E., Gayoso, J., Pirotti, F., Bucarey, Á., Guerra, J., Hernández, J., Corvalán, P. & 3 others, 2021, In: IForest. 14, 1, p. 61-70, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2020

• Primary Steps in Analyzing Data: Tasks and Tools for a Systematic Data ExplorationZwanzig, M., Schlicht, R., Frischbier, N. & Berger, U., 2020, Forest-Water Interactions. Springer, Cham, (Ecological Studies; vol. 240)Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
• Spatiotemporal Statistics: Analysis of Spatially and Temporally Correlated Throughfall Data: Exploring and Considering Dependency and HeterogeneityTischer, A., Zwanzig, M. & Frischbier, N., 2020, Forest-Water Interactions. (Ecological Studies; vol. 240)Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report

2019

• Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid SurvivalZwanzig, M., Harrison, E., Brockhurst, M. A., Hall, J. P. J., Berendonk, T. U. & Berger, U., 2019, In: MSystems. 4, 1, e00186-18Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

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Conference contributions and other

16 Entries

2020

• Self-organisation and persistence of antibiotic resistance in evolving plasmid communitiesZwanzig, M. & Berger, U., 15 Sep 2020Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other

2017

• The hidden hands of trees: Root networks towards a safe hydraulic architectureVovides, A. G., Zwanzig, M. & Berger, U., 2017Research output: Contribution to conferences > Poster
• Towards a simulation of root grafted tree networksZwanzig, M., Vovides, A. G. & Berger, U., 2017Research output: Contribution to conferences > Poster

2014

• Diversity and its relevance for plasmid maintenanceZwanzig, M., 2014Research output: Contribution to conferences > Poster

2013

• Langzeiteffekte von N- und P-Düngung auf die Bodenqualität und Weideproduktivität in Süd-EcuadorZwanzig, M., 12 Jun 2013, 180 p.Research output: Types of Thesis > Master thesis

2010

• Untersuchungen zum Einfluss des Kohlenstoffgehaltes auf die Bodenstruktur am Standort Bad LauchstädtZwanzig, M., 15 Aug 2010Research output: Types of Thesis > Bachelor thesis

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Oral presentations

• Zwanzig, M., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Christ, J., van der Maaten, E. (2024): A developmental perspective on phenotypic plasticity of tree xylem traits: how life history trajectories in the species’ morphospace define opportunities and risks for tree acclimatization. 53rd annual conference of the Ecological Society GfÖ, 9-13 September 2024, Freising, Germany. Oral presentation.

• Zwanzig, M. (2023): Xylem formation as the basis of adaptive physiological processes in individual-tree models - a new perspective for modelling life-history-related drought sensitivity. ECEM 2023 - European Conference on Ecological Modelling, 4 - 8 September 2023, Leipzig, Germany. Oral presentation.

• Zwanzig, M. (2022): Assembly and resilience of evolving plasmid communities. ISPB 2022 - International Symposium on Plasmid Biology, 18 - 23 September 2022, Toulouse, France. Oral presentation.

• Zwanzig, M. (2022): Diversity and resilience of simulated evolving plasmid communities. ESA CSEE Meeting 2022. 14 - 19 August 2022, Montréal, Canada. Oral presentation.
• Zwanzig, M. (2021): From simplified to increasingly complex scenarios: how the considered number and type of biotic interactions affect risk assessment of antibiotic resistance persistence. SETAC Europe annual meeting 2021, Session: From Ecological Concepts to Ecological Scenarios for Mechanistic Effect Model Applications in Risk Assessment and Management. ID 8.02.05, invited oral presentation.
• Zwanzig, M. (2017): Plasmid diversity induces the evolution of non-transitive
  dynamics in microbial systems. Ecology Across Borders, Joint Annual Meeting of BES,
  GfÖ, NecoV and EEF 2017, Gent, Belgium. Oral Presentation.
• Werisch, M. (2016): Adaptation and its relevance for plasmid maintenance. International Conference on Plasmids and other Mobile Genetic Elements 2016,
  Cambridge, UK. Oral Presentation.
• Werisch, M. (2015): Coevolution of bacteria and conjugative plasmids broadens the
  conditions favoring plasmid persistence. 10. Workshop of the Young Modellers in
  Ecology (GfÖ working group), Laachen, Switzerland. Oral Presentation.

Journal Reviewer & Memberships

Reviewing for, i.a., Ecological Modelling, Ecology Letters,  Philosphopical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, PLOS Computational Biology, mSystems, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

GFÖ member - the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
ESA member - Ecological Society of America

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