Dr Celeste Donato completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science at La Trobe University and then undertook her PhD at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and La Trobe University with Associate Professor Carl Kirkwood and Professor Ruth Bishop. Graduating in 2015, she then completed a two-year postdoc at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. She returned to Australia after being awarded an NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellowship which was conducted at Monash University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute in 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow leading the Candida auris and E. coli One Health projects within the Australian Pathogen Genomics program.
