Christine Tyson completed her PhD in molecular cytogenetics at the Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit in Oxfordshire, UK. Following this, she trained as a clinical cytogeneticist at St Mary’s Hospital and worked in the Oncology Cytogenetics Laboratory at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, UK. She later worked as a clinical cytogeneticist at the Bristol Genetics Laboratory before moving to Vancouver to take up a research associate position in Dr. Rajcan-Separovic’s laboratory at the Child and Family Research Institute at Children’s and Women’s Hospital. After leaving this position to pursue a Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG) fellowship in cytogenetics at Children’s and Women’s Hospital, she went on to work as a clinical cytogeneticist at Royal Columbian Hospital. In 2018, she completed her CCMG molecular genetics fellowship and subsequently worked as a Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Cytogeneticist in the Division of Genome Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She is currently a Clinical Cytogeneticist and Molecular Geneticist in the Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Medical Genetics, at Victoria General Hospital, Island Health.