Christina M. Hull (born 1970) is an American

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

and Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

Education and career

Christina Hull completed her

B.S. A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

degree from the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

in 1992. She then went on to complete a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

with Alexander D. Johnson at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...

in 2000. Her thesis was titled "Identification and characterization of a mating type-like locus in the "asexual" pathogenic yeast ''Candida albicans''". She then went on to complete a

postdoctoral fellowship A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to p ...

with

Joseph Heitman Joseph Heitman is an American physician-scientist focused on research in genetics, microbiology, and infectious diseases. He is the James B. Duke Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University School ...

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

from 2000 to 2003. She is now a professor at the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Research

Hull's research focuses on fungal development, with a particular focus on how fungi enter and leave the spore form. Her group primarily does this work using the pathogenic fungus ''

Cryptococcus ''Cryptococcus'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cryptococcaceae that includes both yeasts and filamentous species. The filamentous, sexual forms or teleomorphs were formerly classified in the genus ''Filobasidiella'', while ''Cryptococcus'' ...

''.

Notable publications

*Giles SS, Dagenais TRT... Hull CM (2009). Elucidating the pathogenesis of spores from the human fungal pathogen ''Crytococcus neoformans''. ''Infection and Immunity''. 77(8): pgs. 3491-3500 *Hull CM, Raisner RM, Johnson AD (2000). Evidence for mating of the 'asexual' yeast ''Candida albicans'' in a mammalian host. ''Science''. 289(5477): pgs. 307-310 *Hull CM, Johnson AD (1999). Identification of a mating type-like locus in the asexual pathogenic yeast ''Candida albicans''. ''Science''. 285(5431): pgs. 1271-1275

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hull, Christina M. University of Utah alumni University of California, San Francisco alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American mycologists Living people 1970 births