Christine K Schmidt is a Senior Lecturer and a previous BBSRC David Phillips Fellow at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (University of Manchester, UK). Before starting her independent career, Christine K Schmidt completed postdoctoral positions at the Gurdon Institute (University of Cambridge, UK) with Prof. Stephen Jackson and Dr. Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute (NIH, USA). Christine K Schmidt obtained her PhD at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (University College London, UK) for work performed in Dr. Frank Uhlmann’s group. Research in Christine K Schmidt’s group aims to better understand how cells maintain stable genomes and how genomically unstable cancers can be detected and targeted in novel ways.