Milestones

• New Lab Members:
  • Ammar Mansour (Visiting Clinician)
  • Conner Song (Undergraduate Student)
  • Sheldon Smith (Summer Student)
  • Phyllis Elliott (Summer Student, Returning)
• This summer’s outing was a nice lunch while the winter outing featured lunch and an  Escape room.
• Brittni passed quals to become a Ph.D. candidate
• Dr. Kerr’s office was fully renovated and the common space updated!

Brittni’s Candidate Advance Celebration

Kerr Lab Escapes!

Holiday Lunch 2018

Grants

• Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Award with Dr. Ellen Quillen

Awards

• Travel Awards
  • Brittni Foster to SACNAS
  • Phyllis Elliott to ABRCMS
• Alex Jinnah- Best Basic Science Paper at ORS

Publications

• Jinnah, Alexander H., Benjamin C. Zacks, Chukwuweike U. Gwam, and Bethany A. Kerr. Emerging and Established Models of Bone Metastasis. Cancers. 10(6):176. [Read Online]
• Ren, Xiang, Brittni M. Foster, Parham Ghassemi, Jeannine S. Strobl, Bethany A. Kerr, and Masoud Agah. Entrapment of Prostate Cancer Circulating Tumor Cells with a Sequential Size-Based Microfluidic Chip. Analytical Chemistry. In Press. [Read Online]
• Foster, Brittni M., Danish Zaidi, Tyler R. Young, Mary E. Mobley and Bethany A. Kerr. CD117/c-kit in Cancer Stem Cell-Mediated Progression and Therapeutic Resistance. Biomedicines. 6(1):31. [Read Online]
• Preprints:
  • CTC Marker CD117/c-kit Represents a Prostate Cancer Stem-Like Subpopulation Driving Progression, Migration and TKI Resistance
  • Investigating the Osteoinductive Potential of a Decellularized Xenograft Bone Substitute

Meetings

• SBUR Annual Meeting (Kerr)
• AACR Annual Meeting (Kerr)
• International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress (Kerr)
• SACNAS (Foster)
• ABRCMS (Elliott and Smith)
• Orthopaedic Research Society (Jinnah)
• Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (Jinnah)

Palm Springs is beautiful- SBUR 2018

Manatee in Tampa

Chicago in the Snow 2018