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!
Category: Lab Updates
2018 Annual Report
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 …
Elsa U. Pardee Foundation and Travel Awards!
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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Brittni passed quals! and Summer Lab Outing 2018
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.
Office Renovations
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!
2018 Papers thus far…
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 …
Meetings!- SBUR 2017, AACR PCa 2017, AACR 2018
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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2017 Annual Report
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 …

2017 Summer Recap
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. …

2016 Annual Report
Milestones New Lab Members: New Lab Manager: Lihong Shi, MD Residents: Alex Jinnah, MD (Orthopaedics) and Taylor Peak, MD (Urology) Students: Stephanie Sanders (Ph.D. Rotation); Koran Harris (Undergraduate) and Danish Zaidi (Medical) First Summer and Winter Outings Dr. Kerr cross-appointed in Orthopaedic Surgery Department Publications Kerr, Bethany A.*, Xiaoxia Z. West*, Young-Woong Kim, Yongzhong Zhao, …