Lab News

Congratulations!

Esther Jones was selected as the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student to give an oral presentation for this year's EVMS Research Day!

I am proud that the Kerscher Lab will present four posters at research day this year!

Katherine Routon, MS, Research Assistant - Investigating the efficacy of pHLIP-mediated delivery of antimirs against miR-888 and miR-891a to PCa cells.
Esther Jones, Biomedical Graduate Student - Glycosylated RNA - A Potential Marker for Prostate Cancer.
Trevor Fachko, M2 Medical Student - Role of the microRNA miR-888 cluster in prostate cancer cell plasticity and castration resistant disease.
Danxun Yi, M1 Medical Student - Profiling immuno-microRNAs present in human breast milk in the context of SARS-CoV-2.

KUDOS to Kerscher Lab Members! 2022

Esther Jones, Graduate Student

Won 1^st place for poster presentation by a Biomedical Master's Graduate Student during the EVMS Graduate Student Research Conference. February 2022

Danxun Yi, Medical Student

Won 1^st place poster presentation at EVMS Summer Scholar Poster Session. July 2022. Poster title: : Profiling immuno-microRNAs targeting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in human milk.

Spencer Moen, Internal Medicine Resident

Won 1^st place oral presentation for the Department of Medicine 41^st Annual Senior Scholarly Day, June 2022. Talk title: GlycoRNA in Prostate Cancer.

22nd Anniversary of let-7 Discovery & Slack Lab Reunion Boston, MA June 2022

Frank Slack organized a lab reunion at Harvard to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the discovery of the let-7 microRNA. This Slack lab reunion weekend was an amazing time to celebrate/share the scientific accomplishments of the lab alumni and reconnect with the Slack lab "family"!

Aurora Kerscher gave a talk titled "Noncoding RNAs as clinical targets for prostate cancer" at the Harvard Medical School Institute for RNA Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as part of the reunion program.

Katherine was this year's recipient of the 2022 Timothy J. Bos Memorial Award in Biomedical Sciences!!!!!

This award is presented annually to recognize a graduating student from the Master’s of Biomedical Sciences Program who performed their research in the fields of Microbiology and/or Cancer Biology, demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievement, and exemplified the principles of collegiality and integrity.

It's Official!

Congratulations Katherine Routon for earning her Master's in Biomedical Sciences! May 2022.

Graduate Student Katherine Routon presented a poster titled "The role of the miR-888 cluster in castration-resistant prostate cancer and neuroendocrine transdifferentiation" at the Keystone Symposia Small Regulatory RNAs Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 2022.
Aurora Kerscher gave a short talk "The miR-888 Cluster Members as Clinical Targets for Prostate Cancer" and chaired the Emerging Topics in Small RNAs session at this meeting.

Keystone group trip to the Chimayo Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Loretto Chapel and the miRaculous stairs

Biomedical Master's Student Esther Jones had a baby boy, Isaiah, on August 20, 2021 weighing 6 lb 15 oz.

Congratulations Esther & Family!!!!

Research Assistant Linh Quan has started medical school at EVMS, Fall 2021!

You've got this, Linh!!!!

Lab is excited to start working on our CHRB grant!

DOI 10.15252/embr.202152513 | EMBO Reports (2021) e52513

Aurora was interviewed by EMBO Reports about how she adapted her graduate student teaching/mentoring during the COVID era.

Congratulations to Justin Toxey for earning his Biomedical Research Master's from the Kerscher Lab today!!!!!

July 27, 2020

RNA 2019

Krakow, Poland

RNA Heros

Wawel Cathedral

Meeting field trip to the salt mines

MicroRNAs in Diseases and Disorders Emerging Therapeutic Targets - RSC Drug Discovery

1st Edition

Philip Peplow (editor), Bridget Martinez (editor), George A Calin (editor), Aurora Esquela-Kerscher (editor)

Hardback (21 May 2019)

Contributor: CHAPTER 1Role of Nutrition, the Epigenome, and MicroRNAs in Cancer PathogenesisZachary Cadieux, Holly Lewis and Aurora Esquela-Kerscher

Our article "Characterization and Evidence of the miR-888 Cluster as a Novel Cancer Network in Prostate" was featured in the Highlights Section of the April 2018 issue of Molecular Cancer Research!

Sibo Zhang won Best Oral Presentation in the Genetics of Cancer Session at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference, September 22-23, 2017, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. His talk entitled “Understanding the microRNA miR-888 Cluster Network in Aggressive Prostate Cancer” described his summer research in the Kerscher Lab. Way to go Sibo!

LAB PICTURES

Summer Scholars 2018 Poster Presentations

Biomedical Sciences Master's Student Zac Cadieux presented his microRNA project at the Graduate Student Research Conference held on March 23, 2018.

Congrats Aleena! She welcomed new baby girl Reese on 10/02/17 and was awarded the Timothy J. Bos Memorial Award in Biotechnology on 12/01/18.

Aurora Kerscher's postdoc mentor gives seminar at EVMS!

2017 Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference

Animal Planet - Monsters Inside Me, “The Monster in My Mouth”, Season 8, Episode 4, aired October 29, 2017 TV promo featuring Drs. Aurora Kerscher & Jon Allen (College of William & Mary ) garnered over 8 million views on YouTube!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNid7KxUhU