MD/PhD Student
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Kyungyoon (Yoon) Yoo is a 4th year MD/PhD student at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He is currently a graduate student in the Bettina Fries Lab studying the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of an opportunistic fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans. Specific interests include the metabolic regulation of the pathogen that affects its antifungal tolerance and its outcome during the host-pathogen interaction.