Ass.-Prof. Agnes Dellinger, BSc MSc PhD

Tenure Track Professor
3. floor, room 315
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 60
m: agnes.dellinger@univie.ac.at

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Research interests

  • Buzz-pollination and pollinator shifts
  • Flower evolution and flower diversity
  • Diversification and macroevolutionary modelling
  • Plant-animal-environment interactions and population differentiation

My research is centered on exploring how biotic interaction processes such as plant-pollinator interactions change across variable environmental contexts (i.e., altitudinal gradients) and affect plant macro- and microevolution. Within this framework, I am particularly interested in understanding how flowers evolve and function, and when (i.e., under which abiotic and biotic environmental contexts?) and how (i.e., which traits?) they diversify. I am mostly working on the large (>5,800 spp.), pantropical plant family Melastomataceae, and spend much time conducting fieldwork with colleagues in the Latin American tropics. To answer my questions, I use a combination of experimental field and labwork, observations, phylogenomics, comparative morphological and phylogenetic analyses and statistical modelling.

After my postdoc at the University of Colorado Boulder working with Stacey Smith, I have recently returned to the University of Vienna to start my own lab. Check out my lab's website if you want to know more about our work!

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 Curriculum Vitae

Current position

  • 2023/3– Tenure Track Professor

Education and scientific career

  • 2021/6–2023/2 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, FWF-Project T 1186-B
  • 2020 Gertrud Pleskot Award
  • 2019/9–2021/6 University assistant (post doc) FWF-Project P 30669-B29
  • 2019 PhD Theses "Pollinator Shifts and Floral Evolution in Merianieae (Melastomataceae)"
  • 2017/10–2019/8 University assistant (prae doc) FWF-Project P 30669-B29
  • 2015–2017/09 University assistant (prae doc), PhD-student
  • 2014 Research associate at the Department for Botany and Biodiversity research (CVL, head: Stefan Dullinger)
  • 2010– Master programme in Community and Landscape Ecology (University of Vienna, Austria); 2010/2011 Erasmus exchange, University of Lund, Sweden
  • 2007–2010 Bachelor programme in Ecology (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • 1999–2007 Secondary School, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Publications

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2014

Dellinger, A. S., Penneys, D. S., Städler, Y., Fragner, L., Weckwerth, W., & Schönenberger, J. (2014). A Specialized Bird Pollination System with a Bellows Mechanism for Pollen Transfer and Staminal Food Body Rewards. Current Biology, 24(14), 1615-1619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.056
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Dellinger, A., Essl, F., Dullinger, S., & Hörandl, E. (2014). Effects of reproductive systems on ecological niche use of invasive species. In 16. Treffen der Österreichischen Botanikerinnen und Botaniker: 25.-27. September 2014 im Naturkundemuseum des Universalmuseums Joanneum : Kurzfassungen Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH.
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Dellinger, A., Penneys, D. S., & Schönenberger, J. (2014). Floral food-bodies and a special pollen dispersal mechanism in bird pollinated Axinaea (Melastomataceae). In Botany 2014 – New frontiers in botany Article 672 http://www.2014.botanyconference.org
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Dellinger, A., Essl, F., Dullinger, S., & Hörandl, E. (2014). Move out without a pollinator: effects of reproductive systems on ecological niche use in invasive species. Paper presented at 28th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecologists - SCAPE, Sweden.
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2013

Dellinger, A., Penneys, D., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Floral food-bodies and a bellows-like mechanism in bird-pollinated Axinaea (Melastomataceae). In Tropical Organisms and Ecosystems in a Changing World Article 138
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Dellinger, A., Penneys, D., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Floral food-bodies and a bellows-like mechanism in bird-pollinated Axinaea (Melastomataceae). In Abstract Volume of the Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology, Lammi, Finland, 24-27 October 2013
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Dellinger, A., Penneys, D., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Floral food-bodies and a bellows-like mechanism in bird-pollinated Axinaea (Melastomataceae). In K. Püssa, R. Kalamees, & K. Hallop (Eds.), Vegetation Patterns and their Underlying Processes
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Dellinger, A., Penneys, D., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Floral food-bodies and a bellows-like mechanism in bird-pollinated Axinaea (Melastomataceae). In Abstract volume of the Young Researchers’ Day, Network of Biological Systematics Austria, Vienna, Austria, 29th November 2013
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Dellinger, A. (2013). Floral Structure and Pollination Biology of Axinaea (Melastomataceae). Master thesis,  Universität Wien, Wien. PDF available at: othes.univie.ac.at/28151/

Dellinger, A., & Berger, A. (2009). Vergesellschaftung, Habitatspezifität und pflanzensoziologische Bewertung der Vorkommen von Trifolium saxatile im Schalftal, Ötztaler Alpen, Tirol. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges., 146, 125-138. (Bachelorarbeit)