Sue Biggins
@SueBiggins
Followers
4K
Following
3K
Media
65
Statuses
1K
Scientist at @FredHutch @HHMINews. Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding chromosomes and cell division. Opinions are my own. (She/her)
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2017
RT @MeitingerOhta: Join us for the Cell Division Meeting in the Pacific Island setting of Okinawa. Hosted at OIST, this symposium brings….
0
7
0
Congrats @C_P_Lapointe for become a Rita Allen Scholar!.
Congratulations to @C_P_Lapointe on being named a 2025 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar! This award will support his critical research @FredHutch studying how healthy cells control protein production and how this control breaks down in disease.
0
0
3
RT @foodskop: New cookbook shares recipes and stories from scientists around the world @LabCultureBites
news.cals.wisc.edu
0
3
0
RT @HutchBasicSci: 🎉 Huge congratulations to @KochMeghan on being named a @BWFUND 2025 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disea….
bwfund.org
DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund proudly announces the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award recipients. This year’s cohort represents a diverse group of...
0
1
0
RT @arvind_rasi: Our RNA-linked CRISPR approach is now published! Work led by fantastic graduate student in the lab, Patrick Nugent.
0
6
0
RT @jo44atWID: The administration’s proposal to convert scientist positions to Schedule F—political appointees—has enormous implications fo….
0
12
0
RT @fredhutch: In new work published today in @Nature, researchers in @HutchBasicSci discover that most transcription factors in budding ye….
fredhutch.org
A study by researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center published in Nature revises the standard story about transcription factors binding close to the genes they regulate. That is true only for a small...
0
6
0
Coalition for Life Sciences Letter to HHS and NIH:.
coalitionforlifesciences.org
On April 14, 2025, CLS Chair Jo Handelsman and Exec Director Adrienne Hallett sent a letter outlining the tremendous consequences of terminating research and asking that it be reinstated.
0
1
3
RT @SamReckPeterson: I am excited for this opportunity to chair the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine! ht….
news.weill.cornell.edu
The newly configured department marshals biochemists, biophysicists and experts in protein engineering and imaging to drive discoveries in the basic mechanisms of cell function.
0
14
0
RT @CterminiPhD: 📢 Attention postdocs! We are soliciting applications for the Méndez Scholars Program at Fred Hutch, which supports postdoc….
0
52
0
RT @SteSantaguida: We are very excited to open the registration for the upcoming @EMBOevents on Chromosome Segregation and Aneuploidy in be….
meetings.embo.org
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of cancer and developmental disorders such as Down syndrome. Understanding how cells accomplish faithful chromosome segregation and how chromosomal instability (CIN) impacts …
0
25
0
Great collaboration with the Asbury lab! This property of kinetochores helps them stay attached to the highly dynamic tips of microtubules:.
Larson, @SueBiggins, Asbury et al. @UW_NBIO show that #kinetochores grip the sides of #microtubules much more strongly when they are pulled toward plus ends, a mechanical asymmetry that might promote biorientation during early #mitosis
1
9
39
Great faculty position in VIDD @Fredhutch open-strong support from the Bezos family included! Please apply and/or RT!.
Join us in accelerating groundbreaking discoveries in #infectiousdiseases and #immunology! Fred Hutch is seeking a scientific leader for the Bezos Family Distinguished Scholar in Viruses and Vaccines faculty position. Learn more and apply:
0
9
13
Congrats to @HutchBasicSci research administrator Melissa Melgar for receiving an @SocietyRAIntl award as a 2024 Future of the Field!
0
2
9
Terrific article on our post-bac program @fredhutch! Greatful to @HutchPresident and other leadership for supporting us getting this off the ground:.via @fredhutch.
fredhutch.org
The Fred Hutch Postbaccalaureate Scholar Program provides recent college graduates $50,000 a year and benefits as full-time Fred Hutch employees with an expanded emphasis on career guidance and...
1
4
18
RT @SettyM: Are you an early career scientist who wants to pursue a research project in the lab of a Fred Hutch Computational Biologist men….
0
7
0
Please nominate grad students for the @WeintraubAward!.
The @WeintraubAward recognizes the outstanding achievements of grad students in biology and was established to honor the bold, creative, pioneering spirit embodied by Dr. Hal Weintraub. Nominations for 2025 are now open!.
0
7
12
Yes Luna is still here and hopefully staying:).
@HutchBasicSci @fredhutch Oh man, Pat will be missed. I miss him & haven't worked there in 16 years…Luna is still there, right? What a pair!.
0
0
1