Celeste Linde

Professor · The Australian National University · company speakers →

Celeste Linde is a professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at The Australian National University in Canberra. Celeste completed her studies at the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa, and a postdoc at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. Her PhD focused on the population genetics of Phytophthora cinnamomic. She has always been interested in plant-microbe interactions, and thus is passionate to learn about the fungal relationships of orchids. With the help of many students and collaborators, she investigates the patterns of orchid-fungal associations. Her lab has been active in characterising and formally naming many of the orchid mycorrhizal fungi, a necessary step to assist future studies on the biology, ecology and conservation of the fungi and their associated orchids. Using eg phylogenomic data, she investigates phylogenetic niche conservatism of fungal symbionts within Australian terrestrial orchids. Moreover, orchid symbiont preferences provided new insights into the placement of several groups with longstanding phylogenetic uncertainty.

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