Sue Biggins

Congrats to this fantastic group of @jcchildsfund.bsky.social postdoctoral fellows! Grateful to a fantastic Board of Scientific Advisors for all their work!

Grateful to the lab for celebrating 25 years and to @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social for being such a great place to do science!

This is a really important additional concern with the proposed budget

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…

🎉 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!

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

Terrific findings from Steve Hahn's lab in @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social!

Thanks to Coalition for Life Sciences letter to Kennedy and Bhattacharya:

‘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.

"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...?

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.

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!

Lifting this freeze is crucial:

#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.

Opinion | American Science is Under Attack The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

CLS members are speaking out! #SupportingScience

Congrats to BSD Professor Jesse Boom @jbloomlab.bsky.social!

Cool work from Steve Henikoff's lab!

Huge congrats to @cterminiphd.bsky.social!!!

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.

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...

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...

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!

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: https://buff.ly/4foiYKq

Check out the impact of the JCC postdoctoral fellowships! Applications open for the next deadline-Jan 31, 2025

some starter ideas and agree we need more ideas how to communicate to public

whenever we see misinformation, try to respond with evidence.....a tweet, a blog, an email, tik tok video? we need our comms teams to distribute more evidence... and Needhi is right that we need to organize to work with politicians....it would help if scientific societies could help facilitate....

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

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

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!

power out since tuesday's bomb cyclone....time to join bluesky!

Yes you do @harmitmalik.bsky.social!