2019-2020 Bi-Annual Report

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 …

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Welcome to Jessica Dean

  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!  

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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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