2019 and 2020 are being combined, enjoy a 2 year update! Milestones New Lab Members:Chirayu Patel (M.S. Student 2019)Maria Xie (M.S. Student 2019)Jessica Dean (Undergraduate Summer Student 2019)Stephen Sokolosky (Undergraduate Student 2020)Tori Beth Surratt (M.S. Student 2020)Koran passed quals to become a Ph.D. candidateGraduated:Chirayu Patel, M.S. (2019)Maria Xie, M.S. (2019) Jessica Dean's Summer Poster 2019Kerr …
Welcome to Jessica Dean who is joining the lab for the summer as part of the NIH/NCI R25 Grant CA229105. Jessica is studying for a B.S. in Molecular Biology at University of North Carolina, Pembroke. We are excited to have her as part of the lab this summer!
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 …
The Kerr Lab was awarded an Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Award to support a collaborative project with Dr. Ellen Quillen entitled "Profiling Cell Composition and Methylation in the Bone Pre-Metastatic Niche"! Center for Precision Medicine Announcement Phyllis Elliot was awarded a travel award for the upcoming ABRCMS conference and Brittni Foster has been awarded a …
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Congrats to our newest Ph.D. Candidate- Brittni Foster! Brittni passed her preliminary exam and proposal defense on August 28th. And two weeks before- Summer Lab Outing 2018. We will miss you Sheldon and Phyllis! And welcome to Chukwuweike, who will join us for his Ph.D, and Ammar, a visiting clinician.
The office area renovations are complete! Here are some pics of before and after. I love the new standing desk. They did an amazing job!
The first 6 months have been very productive with three manuscripts accepted and in press or published. 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 …
Whew! There are a lot of updates for meetings! It's been great to see old friends and meet new colleagues. We presented posters at: SBUR Fall Symposium November 9-12, 2018 in Tampa, FL. Brittni Foster and Dr. Kerr had a great time in Tampa. SBUR is always an excellent meeting and we took a side …
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Better late than never... Milestones New Lab Members: Technician: Mary Mobley Students: Brittni Foster (Ph.D. Student); Koran Harris (Rotation Student); Lanazha Belfield (Rotation Student); Christina Snyder (Rotation Student); Tyler Young (Summer High School Student); Zi Short (Summer Undergraduate Student); Phyllis Elliot (Summer Undergraduate Student) Returned to the ballpark for the summer outing and hit a …
It has been an exciting summer in the Kerr Lab. This summer we had 3 new lab members join us for the summer: Zi, Phyllis, and Tyler. In addition, Koran and Brittni continued to work hard through the summer and Danish joined us full time as part of the Medical Student Summer Research Program. …
