Sue Biggins
Scientist at @FredHutch @HHMINews.
Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding chromosomes and cell division. Opinions are my own. (She/her)
- Reposted by Sue BigginsMitosis lovers, get ready for Dubrovnik! 🔬🎉 I’m super excited to be organizing the 4th Mitotic Spindle Conference with Nenad Pavin, and we can’t wait to see you there! Want your abstract to be selected for a talk? Submit by Feb 8! www.phy.pmf.unizg.hr/~mitosis/ #SpindleCroatia2026
- Congrats to @basicsci.fredhutch.org Professor Steve Henikoff for being the 2025 Rosenstiel Award recipient today!
- Excited that our latest paper is out! Congrats to Changkun Hu! This work revealed dependencies between kinetochore proteins for assembly that we didn't know about before and will be interesting to understand
- ⭐ NAR Breakthrough! ⭐ 🔬 How do #kinetochores rebuild each #cellcycle? A new study reveals the order of assembly, hidden interdependencies, and a new regulatory mechanism. 🧬 Read more: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... @suebiggins.bsky.social @fredhutch.org #NARbreakthrough #ChromosomeSegregation
- apparently immunity and brain aging according to Akhila!
- Looking for your next step in fly genetics? The Rajan Lab at Fred Hutch is hiring a staff scientist + postdoc for projects on fat–brain signals, immunity, and brain aging. Stable, long-term role in a collaborative lab. Apply: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...
- New cell cycle meeting starts next summer! events.faseb.org/event/c40174...
- Congrats Chandni and @harmitmalik.bsky.social on your 25th!
- 25 years since I went from the biggest skeptic to the biggest fan of arranged marriages. #alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers
- Terrific department-amazing faculty position opportunity! Apply now! I
- Congrats @jtleek.bsky.social!
- Honored to see the Cancer AI Alliance included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI. CAIA has been a true team sport based on the shared commitment of all our Alliance members to accelerate cancer research and ultimately improve and save patient’s lives. time.com/collections/...
- Great work from Hahn lab @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social that changes how we think about transcription factor binding:
- Drs. Steve Hahn and Lakshmi Mahendrawada sit down with the Double-stranded Podcast. Check out a great conversation and learn about their recent @nature.com paper that’s rewriting our understanding of transcription factors: youtu.be/lXgdvmveA_k?...
- thanks Alex....was wondering what was going on in GM....is there anything notable about how the MYF grants were picked?
- Congrats to this fantastic group of @jcchildsfund.bsky.social postdoctoral fellows! Grateful to a fantastic Board of Scientific Advisors for all their work!
- We're thrilled to announce the 2025 class of Jane Coffin Childs Fellows! See our latest blog post and "look book" to learn more about our newest Fellows and their exciting research! www.jccfund.org/blog/the-jan... www.jccfund.org/wp-content/u...
- Grateful to the lab for celebrating 25 years and to @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social for being such a great place to do science!
- Celebrating 25 years of curiosity, kinetochores, and cutting-edge science! Congratulations to the @suebiggins.bsky.social Lab @fredhutch.bsky.social on their 25th anniversary. Cheers to all the amazing colleagues that have made it such a wonderful place to do research over its past and present!
- This is a really important additional concern with the proposed budget
- Today CLS brings attention to a sleeper cell proposal in the President's NIH Budget for FY26: Multi-Year Awards. Read our statement to learn why this "nothing to see here" boring-sounding proposal would actually be DEVASTATING to research. www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/cls-objects-...
- Reposted by Sue Biggins🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Meghan Koch on being named a @bwfund.bsky.social 2025 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease! The award supports her groundbreaking research @FredHutch exploring how maternal-offspring interactions shape neonatal health.
- Guess who has an amazing science tattoo!
- Reposted by Sue BigginsInterested in postdoc opportunities in Seattle, WA? Join us May 6th for Seattle DROP, a virtual event about biomedical research in Seattle. Hear from recruiting faculty, finding the right mentor and enjoy lunch on us via a delivery voucher within the US! Registration: tinyurl.com/seattledrop25
- Terrific findings from Steve Hahn's lab in @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social!
- In new work published today in @nature.com, researchers in @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social discover that most transcription factors in budding yeast don’t follow the textbook example of binding close to the genes they regulate. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...
- Thanks to Coalition for Life Sciences letter to Kennedy and Bhattacharya:
- Abrupt termination of research doesn't stop waste, it CREATES waste! We call on @hhsgov.govmirrors.com to restore the funding without delay! #Cuts2Science
- Reposted by Sue Biggins"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
- Inspirational spotlight on @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social faculty member Melody Campbell! nwasianweekly.com/2025/03/from...
- Congrats to Jeremy Hollis of @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social and all the other exceptional scientist who have received the 2025 Weintraub award!
- We’re thrilled to congratulate to Jeremy Hollis in the @melodygcampbell.bsky.social and @harmitmalik.bsky.social Labs on being named a 2025 Weintraub Awardee! Jeremy is carrying on the late Hal Weintraub's legacy of curiosity and discovery through his research on cell surface receptors.
- Lifting this freeze is crucial:
- Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org
- Reposted by Sue Biggins#Devbio - please give @c4lifesciences.bsky.social a follow as we are working hard for #science and our community. If you have a story to share - please see below! We are collecting as many as we can.
- Scientists, we need your stories! Post a 2-minute video on whatever social media apps you use. Show us your empty labs, tell us about the grant you are waiting for, and talk about why you do what you do. Tag @c4lifesciences.bsky.social and #Cuts2Science Tag your Members of Congress!
- Reposted by Sue BigginsCLS members are speaking out! #SupportingScience
- Congrats to BSD Professor Jesse Boom @jbloomlab.bsky.social!
- Congrats to Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist @jbloomlab.bsky.social on being named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology! Read more: bit.ly/3EFmnb1 @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social
- Cool work from Steve Henikoff's lab!
- Researchers at Fred Hutch have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving aggressive breast and brain tumors involving genes so ancient — more than 2 billion years old — that they fly under the radar of standard genetic sequencing methods. 1/9 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Huge congrats to @cterminiphd.bsky.social!!!
- Reposted by Sue BigginsCheck out a fantastic @elife.bsky.social article highlighting @yarimura.bsky.social’s MagIC #cryoEM technique - a method using specialized magnetic beads that makes it possible to study the structure of proteins from dilute samples. elifesciences.org/articles/105...
- Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
- Leading edge is a phenomenal program-apply!
- Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.
- Reposted by Sue BigginsGet all the highlights from the Basic Sciences Division in our 2024 annual report! Hear from division director @SueBiggins.bsky.social, see event highlights, get updates from each of our labs, and so much more: buff.ly/4foiYKq
- Check out the impact of the JCC postdoctoral fellowships! Applications open for the next deadline-Jan 31, 2025
- The Jane Coffin Childs Fund has compiled our first ever Impact Report. Full report: jccfund.org/about-fund/i... 1/
- some starter ideas and agree we need more ideas how to communicate to public
- Agree 100% We need to highlight advances such as HPV vaccine that has had incredible success reducing cervical cancer in a few years...so many examples...the public needs to better understand that science is truly helping them
- Reposted by Sue BigginsThe best part of the week kicks off soon: Friday Afternoon Seminars! Can’t wait to learn about the latest research from Elyse Christensen in the @nlehrbach.bsky.social Lab and Liberalis Boila in Human Biology’s Kugel Lab. For all our @FredHutch.bsky.social colleagues, join us for two great talks!
