Sarah Saxton

PhD student in Bioengineering @ University of Washington

[Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab]

So excited about this - synthetic human organogenesis in a dish. I appreciate @AllenInstitute support and vision - funding potentially transformative ideas not likely to be funded by traditional sources. Look forward to working w @VallierLab and @RobSchwartzLab!

[Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4]

@kellystevenslab @cfortin888 @UWBioE @AllenInstitute @UWISCRM @UWMedicine @uwengineering 🥰 learned from the best @cfortin888 @kellystevenslab

[Dr. Earyn McGee, Lizard lassoer 🦎 @Afro_Herper]

This is not justice. Its punishing one man for a specific crime. Justice is dismantling the system that allowed and encouraged this Chauvin and many others to take the lives of Black people for no other reason than to indulge their own racism.

[Ying Zheng @YingZhe47280253]

We are excited to make small progress in generating organ specific microvascular structures in anatomical scale! More work to do to get on the real function!

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

The vaccine shortage doesn't need to exist. Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with the dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to produce their vaccines and end the pandemic.

[Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab]

@NIH R01’s from White scientists are funded at ~twice the award rate as Black scientists.

@NIH has known this for a decade. It has not been fixed.

@nihdirector #fundblackscientists

Read our @Cellcellpress paper, w/ @Lola_UMich and more
https://t.co/RlNXHWGKv7

[Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4]

“Imagine needing to spend *twice* the amount of time grant writing to achieve the same funding level as white PIs, while also performing substantially more service” #fundblackscientists @NIH @NIHDirector

[NOAH CAINE @NoahCaine]

to make it here without dying is the epitome of white privilege

[Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab]

#citeblackauthors is now easy - search for and cite papers by Black academics. https://t.co/L8yAGNGeS5

[Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab]

How can 3D printing and HEAT be used to drive genetic wiring of artificial tissues?
Check out our paper in @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/8rlpV55Uka

Work by #DanielCorbett @wesfabyan+,collab with @jmil @coledeforest at @UWISCRM @UWMedicine @uwengineering @BrotmanBaty @UWMolES

[Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4]

@ian_kins_ Congrats Ian!

[Elizabeth Nance @profnance]

Day 2 of the #ExperiencesofBlackSTEM event is starting very soon! Join the YouTube live stream!

[Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4]

@amjeve Hi @amjeve – thanks for the Q! We often use urea synthesis, PAS staining (glycogen storage), LDL uptake, and CYP3A4 activity as other metrics of function for liver organoids in vitro. And we are working on methods for more functional metrics of engineered liver tissues in vivo!

[Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab]

We 3D printed sugar with lasers to create artificial liver tissue with @jmil and @nervous_jessica. Love this collaboration - we aspire to 3D print human organs. Ian Kistlinger @sarahsaxton4 and others did the hard work. @UWISCRM @uwengineering @BrotmanBaty @UWMedicine

[Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4]

Thrilled to be part of this *sweet* work!

[Ian Kinstlinger @ian_kins_]

And finally, we worked with @kellystevenslab to study primary hepatic aggregates in perfused gels. 3D dendritic networks can support these delicate cell aggregates by getting them the oxygen + nutrients they need. 6/

[ISCRM at UW @UWISCRM]

This week in @PNASNews: Collaborative study led by Dr. Mike Regnier with @UCSanDiego @illinoistech and @argonne details how dATP helps myosin and actin bind to strengthen heart contractions. https://t.co/r0rWmLAMDq

[National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences]

Congratulations Susan Strome of @ucsc, newly elected #NASmember! #NAS156 #GermCells #germline https://t.co/xmcsK4u0Ur