Dr. Christina L. Stallings is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. She also serves as the Director for the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program at Washington University and is a co-founder of the Philip and Sima Needleman Center for Autophagy Therapeutics and Research. Her laboratory seeks to dissect the molecular mechanisms involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis, from the perspective of both the host and the pathogen. She has been recognized for her accomplishments in these areas by being elected into the American Academy of Microbiology as well as being awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award, an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, and an American Lung Association Young Investigator Award, under which she was designated a TB Scholar.