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]

Education and career

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]

Research

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]

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