Christina is most interested in investigating the development of embryos, and how the cellular and molecular mechanisms of development are replicated or reinvented across evolution. She began this work during her PhD studies at the University of Texas at Austin examining temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles, under the tutelage of Dr. David Crews. Non-model organisms being the beast that they are, she chose to pursue her post-doctoral research in the more amenable zebrafish and honed in on the development of the vertebrate eye. Alas, the excitement of non-model organisms called her back; she subsequently brought her retinal expertise to studying the development of the cephalopod eye with Dr. Kristen Koenig. Considering the millennia between them, comparison of the vertebrate and cephalopod eye provides striking patterns of convergent evolution. She joined the Trible lab in 2023, where she looks forward to learning all things ant and myrmecological development.