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Sue Biggins

@suebiggins.bsky.social
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Scientist at @FredHutch @HHMINews. Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding chromosomes and cell division. Opinions are my own. (She/her)

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tracey depellegrin @traceydepellegrin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The @c4lifesciences.bsky.social is seeking an Executive Director. CLS is a terrific group of engaged scientific & scholarly society leaders. Check out the position (ideal for a person experienced in policy & advocacy + Capitol Hill) & share w/interested, qualified folks.
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Executive Director, Coalition for the Life Sciences - American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) - Career Page
Apply to Executive Director, Coalition for the Life Sciences at American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in Bethesda, MD.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here it is! @basicsci.fredhutch.org is searching for an associate or senior faculty member!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Followers of @harmitmalik.bsky.social! Look for an exciting post today!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Junior faculty position @basicsci.fredhutch.org!
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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296
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Open-rank tenure-track faculty position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts! careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Congrats Irini @irinakitop.bsky.social for this honor! Lucky to have you in basic sciences!
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Iva Tolić @ivatolic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Mitosis 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
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Congrats to @basicsci.fredhutch.org Professor Steve Henikoff for being the 2025 Rosenstiel Award recipient today!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
apparently immunity and brain aging according to Akhila!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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...
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
New cell cycle meeting starts next summer! events.faseb.org/event/c40174...
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Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease.
Explore breakthroughs in cell cycle regulation and its impact on disease and therapies at this new multidisciplinary scientific meeting.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Congrats Chandni and @harmitmalik.bsky.social on your 25th!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Terrific department-amazing faculty position opportunity! Apply now! I
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Congrats @jtleek.bsky.social!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great work from Hahn lab @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social that changes how we think about transcription factor binding:
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
thanks Alex....was wondering what was going on in GM....is there anything notable about how the MYF grants were picked?
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Congrats to this fantastic group of @jcchildsfund.bsky.social postdoctoral fellows! Grateful to a fantastic Board of Scientific Advisors for all their work!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Grateful to the lab for celebrating 25 years and to @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social for being such a great place to do science!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is a really important additional concern with the proposed budget
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Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org · 30/05/2025
🎉 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.
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Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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…
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Guess who has an amazing science tattoo!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interested 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
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Seattle DROP: Discover Research Opportunities for Postdocs
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Terrific findings from Steve Hahn's lab in @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thanks to Coalition for Life Sciences letter to Kennedy and Bhattacharya:
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/04/2025
"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...?
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Inspirational spotlight on @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social faculty member Melody Campbell! nwasianweekly.com/2025/03/from...
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From music to molecules: Fred Hutch’s Dr. Melody Campbell’s lab is one of the only electron microscopy labs studying integrins
Growing up, Dr. Melody Campbell, 38, was part of the Campbell Quartet.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Congrats to Jeremy Hollis of @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social and all the other exceptional scientist who have received the 2025 Weintraub award!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Lifting this freeze is crucial:
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#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.
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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
CLS members are speaking out! #SupportingScience
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Congrats to BSD Professor Jesse Boom @jbloomlab.bsky.social!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cool work from Steve Henikoff's lab!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Huge congrats to @cterminiphd.bsky.social!!!
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Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org · 24/01/2025
Check 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...
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Cryogenic Electron Microscopy: MagIC beads for scarce macromolecules
Specialized magnetic beads that bind target proteins to a cryogenic electron microscopy grid make it possible to study the structure of protein complexes from dilute samples.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Stable centromere association of the yeast histone variant Cse4 requires its essential N-terminal domain | The EMBO Journal
imageimageCentromeres contain a histone H3 variant that is essential for kinetochore assembly. This work reports that the extended N-terminus of the budding yeast centromeric histone, Cse4, stabilizes...
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Leading edge is a phenomenal program-apply!
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Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org · 20/12/2024
Get 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
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Check out the impact of the JCC postdoctoral fellowships! Applications open for the next deadline-Jan 31, 2025
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
some starter ideas and agree we need more ideas how to communicate to public
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org · 22/11/2024
The 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!
Friday Afternoon Seminars (FAS), this Friday 11/22 at 4pm in Pelton. 

Elyse Christensen, Lehrbach Lab
A cabal of conserved ubiquitin ligases cooperate to ensure robust protein turnover

Liberalis Boila, Kugel Lab
Epigenetic dysregulation in IDH mutant intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
power out since tuesday's bomb cyclone....time to join bluesky!
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yes you do @harmitmalik.bsky.social!
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