Kristina Geiger is a PhD candidate in the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Program at UC Berkeley. She graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. Before graduate school, she was a Fulbright research scholar at the University of Lausanne where she assisted with clinical trials for novel malaria and Ebola virus vaccines and studied the fine specificity of the immune responses in vaccinated volunteers. Currently, she works in Dr. Laurent Coscoy’s lab studying how murine cytomegalovirus evades and alters antiviral immune responses. Outside of lab, she enjoys climbing and taking on new outdoor adventures.