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Sue Biggins (born 1968) is an American cell biologist who studies cell division. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 [1] as well as the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2018 [2]. She is currently the Associate Director and a Full Member of the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [3] as well as an Affiliate Professor for the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington [4]. Biggins is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute [5].
Personal Life Sue Biggins' father was a biochemist who worked on photosystem I. Biggins saw how passionate her father was about his work, which inspired her interest in science. As an undergraduate, she decided she wanted to be an MD. After a summer internship at Merck, Biggins learned she loved working in a lab and she pulled her applications from medical school and decided to go to graduate school. [6]
Education Biggins received her B.S. in Biology in 1990 from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1995 under the direction of Mark Rose at Princeton University. [7] [8] [9]
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After receiving her Ph.D., Biggins began a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco under Dr. Andrew Murray (1995-2000) [1] [2] [3]. In 2000, she joined Fred Hutch to study the process of cell division. [4] [5] Her lab studies kinetochores, the protein machine that moves chromosomes during cell division. In 2010, her lab developed a way to purify kinetochores from yeast and this led to the discovery that tension helps stabilize microtubules’ attachment to kinetochores. They also produced images of the kinetochore’s shape for the first time using electron microscopy. [6] [7] [8] [9] Biggins’ Lab now focuses on understanding mechanisms of chromosome segregation. Studying this is critical to understanding how cells maintain genomic stability and prevent disease, because cells with too many or too few chromosomes can cause cancer, birth defects, or miscarriage. [10] Awards and Honors • 2018 American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Elected Member [11] • 2017 American Society for Cell Biology, Fellow [12] • 2015 National Academy of Sciences, Elected Member [13] • 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Investigator [14] • 2015 Washington State Academy of Sciences, Elected Member [15] • 2015 Genetics Society of America Novitski Prize [16] • 2013 McDougall Mentoring Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [17] • 2013 National Academy of Sciences Molecular Biology Award [18] • 2003-2006 Beckman Young Investigator [19] • 2000-2002 Sidney Kimmel Scholar [20] References
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