Christine Elizabeth Holt FRS, FMedSci (born 28 August 1954) is a British developmental neuroscientist.
She has been Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, since 2003 and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, since 1997.
In 2009, she was part of an international team that received a "Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant to develop molecular probes that will help researchers better understand the "cellular GPS" system that guides neurons to create a properly wired nervous system."
In 1977, Christine Holt received a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in biological sciences at the University of Sussex. She then completed her Ph.D. in zoology with John Scholes as her mentor at King’s College London in 1982 Her first publication “Cell movements in Xenopus eye development” in Nature magazine in 1980 highlighted the movements of the cells during development based on the eye polarity. From 1982 to 1986, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Physiology Department at Oxford University and the Biology department of University of California San Diego (UCSD). Her mentors were Bill Harris and Colin Blakemore.