Christina M. Hull (born 1970) is an American mycologist and Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. [1]
Christina Hull completed her B.S. degree from the University of Utah in 1992. [1] She then went on to complete a Ph.D. with Alexander D. Johnson at the University of California, San Francisco in 2000. [1] Her thesis was titled "Identification and characterization of a mating type-like locus in the "asexual" pathogenic yeast Candida albicans". [2] She then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship with Joseph Heitman at Duke University from 2000 to 2003. [1] She is now a professor at the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. [1]
Hull's research focuses on fungal development, with a particular focus on how fungi enter and leave the spore form. [1] Her group primarily does this work using the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus. [1]