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 new restaurant for the holiday outing.
Dr. Kerr cross-appointed in Urology and Biomedical Engineering Departments
Solidified a collaboration with the Agah Lab at Virginia Tech

2017 Summer Lab Outing

Visit to Virginia Tech to see Agah Lab Cousins

Harris, Koran S. and Bethany A. Kerr. Prostate Cancer Stem Cell Markers Drive Progression, Therapeutic Resistance and Bone Metastasis. Stem Cells International. 2017:1-9. 2017

Zi presenting at 2017 PCa Summer Research Symposium

Brittni celebrating a successful SBUR

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

Kerr, Bethany A.*, Xiaoxia Z. West*, Young-Woong Kim, Yongzhong Zhao, Miroslava Tischenko, Rebecca M. Cull, Timothy W. Phares, Xiao-Ding Peng, Jeremiah Bernier-Latmani, Tatiana V. Petrova, Ralf H. Adams, Nissim Hay, Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad, and Tatiana V. Byzova. Stability and function of adult vasculature is sustained by Akt/Jagged1 signaling axis in endothelium. Nature Communications. 7:10960. 2016.

Koran’s poster at ABRCMS 2016

The Bethany Kerr lab moved to the Cancer Biology Department at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Aerial photographs of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
New Campus Web Page
New Lab Website!

Kerr, Bethany A.*^,†, Ranko Miocinovic*, Armine K. Smith, Xiaoxia Z. West, Katherine E. Watts, Malory E. Weber, Amanda W. Alzayed, Joseph C. Klink, Maria C. Mir, Tiffany Sturey, Donna E. Hansel, Warren D. Heston, Andrew J. Stephenson, Eric A. Klein, and Tatiana V. Byzova. CD117⁺ cells in the circulation are predictive of advanced prostate cancer. Oncotarget. 6(3):1889-97. 2015.