Yoon-Suk Kang, PhD

Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. from Korea University studying bacterial hydrocarbon degradation by several model organisms in the laboratory of Professor Professor Woojun Park. He then performed postdoctoral work on the genetic regulation of microbial arsenic metabolism in the laboratory of Professor Timothy R. McDermott at Montana State University. He joined the Kirby Laboratory anti-microbial discovery effort in March 2013 developing new models for studying type IV secretion system dependent pathogenesis in Brucella and Legionella, identify small molecule inhibitors of intracellular bacterial growth and technology for assessing antimicrobial activity.