Christine Beattie (2 January 1965 - 28 May 2018) was an American developmental neurobiologist. Christine obtained a bachelor in chemistry and did her PhD in neuropharmacology at Case Western Reserve University. She continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon in the laboratory of , where she began working on motoneuron development using the model organism zebrafish. Since 2019, the has awarded the in her honor to outstanding presenters at the .