Sydney Briner

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Tamara L. Doering, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Georgia-Athens, 2022

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
I study novel enzymes that contribute to building the cell wall of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. The cell wall is the target of a class of echinocandins, which C. neoformans is resistant to.

Graduate publications
Briner SL, Doering T. 2025 Cryptococcus. Curr Biol, 35(11):R518-R522

Gaylord EA, Choy HL, Chen G, Briner SL, Doering TL. 2024 Sac1 links phosphoinositide turnover to cryptococcal virulence. mBio, 15(8):e0149624. PMCID: PMC11323556