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