News and Events

2024

April

• Mary Vincent was awarded the VeloSano Graduate Student Cancer Research Grant for her project titled “Discovering and leveraging the roles of NEK2 as a collateral vulnerability for mTOR inhibition in TNBC.”

• Mary Vincent advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

• Saul Castillo was named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. View the list of scholars.

January

• Dr. Keri was awarded an R21 grant from NCI to investigate “Targeting NEK2 to potentiate standard of care therapies for breast cancer.”

2023

October

• Parth Majmudar won Best Oral Presentation Award at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2023.

• Taylor Baker won Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2023.

• Dr. Keri spoke as a guest on the Cancer Advances podcast. Hear her talk about YES1 inhibitors, a new target for treating triple-negative breast cancer, by clicking here!

September

• Leslie Cuellar-Vite successfully defended her PhD dissertation!

• Taylor Baker won 1st place for Best Oral Presentation at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2023.

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez won 1st place for Best Translational Poster Presentation at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2023.

• Parth Majmudar won 2nd place for Best Basic Science Poster Presentation at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2023.

• Taylor Baker was selected to give a talk at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium, titled "A Novel Class of RNR Inhibitors that Induces Genomic Instability and Breast Cancer Cell Death without Inducing Overt Toxicities.”

• Darcie Seachrist, Parth Majmudar, Natasha Ingles-Martinez, and Mitch Valentine presented posters at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2023.

July

• Katrina Piemonte successfully defended her PhD dissertation! She will be returning to medical school to complete her MD.

• Darcie Seachrist and Leslie Cuellar-Vite won Cancer Biology Trainee Seminar Series Awards.

• Jessica Bobbitt and Darcie Seachrist published in Endocrinology, “Chromatin organization and transcriptional programming of breast cancer cell identity.”

May

• Katrina Piemonte published in JBC, “Disruption of CDK7 signaling leads to catastrophic chromosomal instability coupled with a loss of condensin-mediated chromatin compaction.”

April

• Dr. Keri completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program from Drexel University. See her tweet here!

• Jessica Bobbitt presented a poster at the 2023 AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.

January

• Lindsey Anstine published in Cancer Research, “TLE3 Sustains Luminal Breast Cancer Lineage Fidelity to Suppress Metastasis.”

2022

December

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez and Dr. Keri attended the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

November

• Mary Vincent joined the Keri Lab.

• Katrina Piemonte won 1st place in Basic Science for the F. Merlin Bumpus Junior Investigator Award 2022.

September

• Dr. Keri was interviewed by FOX 8 about Velosano Bike to Cure 2022 and its impact on cancer research. Watch the interview here.

July

• Mitch Valentine and Madison Miles presented their summer undergraduate research at the 2022 CanSUR Symposium.

• Dr. Keri was named one of roughly 60 women across the US accepted into the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program. Read about this prestigious program here.

• Darcie Seachrist and Leslie Cuellar-Vite won Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the 2022 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Retreat.

June

• Madison Miles joined the lab as part of the CanSUR program.

March

• Mitch Valentine was named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. View the list of scholars.

• Taylor Baker advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

2021

December

• The Keri Lab won 1st place in the Holiday Lab Decorating Contest in the Department of Cancer Biology at Lerner Research Institute. Check out pictures and video of our decorations in the Gallery!

• Jessica Bobbitt, Katrina Piemonte, and Dr. Keri received the red carpet treatment at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. View their regal entrance on Twitter.

November

• Jessica Bobbitt won Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium 2021.

October

• Parth Majmudar won Best Oral Presentation Award at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2021.

• Taylor Baker won Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2021.

• Lindsey Anstine won 1st place for Best Oral Presentation at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2021.

• Darcie Seachrist and Katrina Piemonte won Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2021.

• Lindsey Anstine was selected to give a talk at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium, titled "TLE3 is a co-repressor of the pioneering transcription factor, FOXA1 that inhibits breast cancer metastasis.”

• Leslie Cuellar Vite was selected to give a talk at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium, titled "Targeting the MUVB Complex or Downstream G2/M Proteins Potentiates CDK4/6 Inhibitor Efficacy in Breast Cancer."

• Darcie Seachrist, Benjamin Bryson, Parth Majmudar, Katrina Piemonte, and Jessica Bobbitt presented posters at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2021.

• Katrina Piemonte had her abstract selected at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference for a Spotlight Poster Discussion Session entitled "Targets in Triple Negative Breast Cancer." The title of her abstract was "The SRC family kinase, YES1, controls chromosomal stability and promotes growth of Triple Negative Breast Cancer.”

• Darcie Seachrist and Lindsey Anstine published in Cancers, “FOXA1: A Pioneer of Nuclear Receptor Action in Breast Cancer.”

• Bryan Webb successfully defended his PhD dissertation! He will be returning to medical school to complete his MD.

• Katrina Piemonte and Lindsey Anstine published in Endocrinology, “Centrosome Aberrations as Drivers of Chromosomal Instability in Breast Cancer.”

September

• Bryan Webb published in JBC, "TGF-β/Activin Signaling Promotes CDK7 Inhibitor Resistance in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells through Upregulation of Multidrug Transporters."

August

• Dr. Keri spoke with WKYC about how VeloSano funding is supporting cancer research in our lab as well as others. Read the article on WKYC.

July

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez was awarded the PREP Alumni Award.

June

• Mitch Valentine joined the lab as a Biochem undergraduate student.

• Katrina Piemonte was awarded the Graduate Student Appreciation Award from the CWRU School of Graduate Studies.

May

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez returned to the Keri Lab as an MSTP student.

April

• Darcie Seachrist and Lindsey Anstine published in Oncotarget, “Up to your NEK2 in CIN.”

March

• Taylor Baker was awarded a fellowship through the Research Experiences for Graduate and Medical Students (REGMS) Program from the Endocrine Society.

• Jessica Bobbitt advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

February

• Dr. Keri was awarded an NCI R01 grant for “Discovering the role of YES1 in triple negative breast cancer.”

• Leslie Cuellar Vite won 2nd best seminar for the Department of Cancer Biology at LRI.

• Benjamin Bryson was awarded the VeloSano Trainee Dream Experiment Fellowship Award for his pilot project titled “Elucidating NEK2 effectors in triple negative breast cancer.”

• Leslie Cuellar Vite was awarded the VeloSano Trainee Dream Experiment Fellowship Award for her pilot project titled “Elucidating intrinsic resistance mechanisms to everolimus, an mTORC1 inhibitor, in triple negative breast cancer.”

January

• Eduardo Williams-Medina was named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. View the list of scholars.

• Taylor Baker joined the Keri Lab.

2019

December

• Jennifer Brancato Sahni's article "Bromodomain and extraterminal protein inhibition blocks growth of triple-negative breast cancers through the suppression of Aurora kinases" was chosen to be included in JBC's Virtual Issue: Cancer.

• Bryan Webb presented his research at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

November

• Amy Aponte won Outstanding Presentation in Cancer Biology at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Anaheim, California.

October

• Dr. Keri was appointed to the Endocrine Society Board of Directors.

• Melyssa Roberts was awarded 1st place for Best Oral Presentation at the 42nd Annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium (BGSS).

• Darcie Seachrist and Leslie Cuellar Vite won Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2019.

• Lindsey Anstine, Elyse Donaubauer, Parth Majmudar, and Katrina Piemonte gave oral presentations at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2019.

• Leslie Cuellar Vite, Melyssa Roberts, Darcie Seachrist, and Bryan Webb presented posters at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2019.

September

• Darcie Seachrist was awarded the VeloSano Catalyst Award for "Identification of the BCL11A-regulated Secretome of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells."

• Benjamin Bryson joined the Keri Lab.

August

• Darcie Seachrist gave a talk at the Hormone-Dependent Cancers Gordon Research Conference in Newry, Maine.

• Eduardo Williams-Medina and Madeline Jenkins presented their summer undergraduate research at the 2019 CanSUR Symposium.

• Katelyn Grenell presented her poster at the 2019 SURP poster session.

July

• Amy Aponte joined the Keri Lab.

• Dr. Keri, Katrina Piemonte, and Parth Majmudar participated as riders for the VeloSano 6: Bike to Cure.

June

• Lindsey Anstine published in Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment, "A new view of the mammary epithelial hierarchy and its implications for breast cancer initiation and metastasis."

• Lindsey Anstine presented her research at the Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Conference in Newry, Maine.

• Darcie Seachrist was awarded the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Travel Award.

• Eduardo Williams-Medina and Madeline Jenkins joined the lab as part of the CanSUR program.

• Katelyn Grenell joined the lab as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Pharmacology (SURP).

May

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez won Outstanding Oral Presentation at Case PREP Research Day 2019.

• Dr. Keri, Lindsey Anstine, Elyse Donaubauer, Leslie Cuellar Vite, and Natasha Ingles-Martinez ran in The Race to support cancer research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

• The Keri Lab was featured by WKYC channel 3 news in their story about The Race. Watch the video

• Bryan Webb received 1st Place Oral Trainee Presentation Award at the 2019 Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium.

• Leslie Cuellar Vite received Honorable Mention for the Clinical/Translational Poster Presentation Award at the 2019 Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium.

April

• Lindsey Anstine and Elyse Donaubauer received 1st Place Postdoctoral Poster Presentation Awards at Research ShowCASE 2019.

• Melyssa Shively and Bryan Webb received 1st Place Graduate Poster Presentation Awards at Research ShowCASE 2019.

• Melyssa Shively and Natasha Ingles-Martinez presented posters at the 2019 AACR Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

March

• Dr. Keri was consulted about the growing discrepancy between funding for the NCI and its paylines. Read the article on Cancer Discovery

• Darcie Seachrist published in Endocrinology, "The Activin Social Network: Activin, Inhibin and Follistatin in Breast Development and Cancer."

• Parth Majmudar advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

• Bryan Webb won Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the MSTP Winter Retreat 2019.

• Melyssa Shively was awarded the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Travel Award.

February

• Dr. Keri was highlighted as one of the 2019 Notable Women in STEM by Crain's Cleveland Business. View their story

2018

December

• Bryan Webb and Melyssa Shively presented posters at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

November

• Sylvia Gayle published in JBC, “Targeting BCL-xL improves the efficacy of bromodomain and extra-terminal protein inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer by eliciting the death of senescent cells."

October

• Darcie Seachrist was awarded 2nd place for best oral presentation at the 41st Annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium (BGSS).

• Bryan Webb, Leslie Cuellar Vite, and Natasha Ingles-Martinez presented posters at the 41st Annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium (BGSS).

• Elyse Donaubauer, Lindsey Anstine, Bryan Webb, and Leslie Cuellar Vite gave oral presentations at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2018.

• Darcie Seachrist, Melyssa Shively, Parth Majmudar, and Natasha Ingles-Martinez presented posters at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2018.

• Lindsey Anstine and Leslie Cuellar Vite won Best Oral Presentation Awards at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2018.

• Darcie Seachrist and Natasha Ingles-Martinez won Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the Department of Pharmacology Retreat 2018.

July

• Katrina Piemonte advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

• Darcie Seachrist and Natasha Ingles-Martinez won Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards at the 2018 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Retreat.

• Lindsey Anstine, Elyse Donaubauer, Darcie Seachrist, Bryan Webb, Leslie Cuellar Vite, Melyssa Shively, and Natasha Ingles-Martinez presented posters at the 2018 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Retreat.

• Dr. Keri and Lindsey Anstine participated as riders for the VeloSano 5: Bike to Cure.

June

• Lindsey Anstine received the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Breakthrough Fellowship Award 2018.

• Nick Latina joined the lab as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Pharmacology (SURP).

• Kareem King joined the lab as part of the Summer Research Program funded by the Young Scientist Foundation.

May

• Jennifer Brancato Sahni received the Doctoral Excellence Award for the Department of Pharmacology.

• Parth Majmudar was awarded the Molecular Therapeutics Training Program Grant, T32.

• Natasha Ingles-Martinez won the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) Scholar of the Year Award.

• Lindsey Anstine won 2nd place in the 2018 Art of Science Contest held by the Graduate Education Office and the School of Medicine.

• The Keri Lab Bake Sale for our VeloSano riders raised over $300!

April

• Jennifer Hoffman presented a poster at Research ShowCASE. 

January

• Parth Majmudar joined the Keri Lab.