Christina Dann received her B.S. in 1996 from College of William and Mary. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and then became a Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2002-2008. Dr. Dann received the Lalor Foundation Research Fellow award in 2005 and was appointed Assistant Scientist in 2008. Her laboratory is located in the Department of Biology, where she holds an affiliate appointment in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program.