Brianna Hill-Payne
@briehp.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @PennMedicine 📚
Chemical Biologist🧫
HHMI Gilliam Fellow ('24 Cohort)💚
Mom of 2 🙀
Avid Anime Lover ⛩️
Obsessive Lego Builder 👷🏾♀️
Chemical Biologist🧫
HHMI Gilliam Fellow ('24 Cohort)💚
Mom of 2 🙀
Avid Anime Lover ⛩️
Obsessive Lego Builder 👷🏾♀️
Welcome to the HHMI family 💙💙💙
Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
August 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Welcome to the HHMI family 💙💙💙
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Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
New paper online at ACS Bio & Med Chem Au with @taabaman.bsky.social! New peptide probes and inhibitors for caspase 8
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Potent Inhibitor of Caspase-8 Based on the IL-18 Tetrapeptide Sequence Reveals Shared Specificities between Inflammatory and Apoptotic Initiator Caspases
Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that act as molecular scissors to cleave substrates and regulate biological processes, such as programmed cell death and inflammation. Extensive efforts hav...
pubs.acs.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New paper online at ACS Bio & Med Chem Au with @taabaman.bsky.social! New peptide probes and inhibitors for caspase 8
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
Juneteenth is a story of freedom hard-won & resilience hard-kept—honoring Black history & the ongoing fight for justice. At Penn Medicine, Research Trainee Affairs advances discovery rooted in respect, access & opportunity—values that shape our comprehensive education, training & outreach mission.
June 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Juneteenth is a story of freedom hard-won & resilience hard-kept—honoring Black history & the ongoing fight for justice. At Penn Medicine, Research Trainee Affairs advances discovery rooted in respect, access & opportunity—values that shape our comprehensive education, training & outreach mission.
Truly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to share my work at the Bioorganic GRC and represent the Burslem lab 💙
Congratulations to @briehp.bsky.social who gave an awesome Knowles award talk at the Bioorganic GRC! Very proud PI!
June 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Truly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to share my work at the Bioorganic GRC and represent the Burslem lab 💙
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
I am sending so much love to my colleagues at NIH today. They are incredible people and scientists and don’t serve any of this. 💔
April 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I am sending so much love to my colleagues at NIH today. They are incredible people and scientists and don’t serve any of this. 💔
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
@vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and I are @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellows who started @science-scope.bsky.social !
This Saturday in Carrboro, NC, we will be launching a new SciComm Series called “From Lab to Lager”, where labs partner with local breweries to share their research on beer labels!
This Saturday in Carrboro, NC, we will be launching a new SciComm Series called “From Lab to Lager”, where labs partner with local breweries to share their research on beer labels!
April 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and I are @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellows who started @science-scope.bsky.social !
This Saturday in Carrboro, NC, we will be launching a new SciComm Series called “From Lab to Lager”, where labs partner with local breweries to share their research on beer labels!
This Saturday in Carrboro, NC, we will be launching a new SciComm Series called “From Lab to Lager”, where labs partner with local breweries to share their research on beer labels!
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
New paper online today! Check out @cewc9.bsky.socials review on how acetylation mediated protein degradation impacts cancer! Thanks for the invite to contribute to the 10th anniversary special issue of Trends in Cancer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Acetylation: a new target for protein degradation in cancer
Acetylation is an increasing area of focus for cancer research as it is closely related to a variety of cellular processes through modulation of histo…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New paper online today! Check out @cewc9.bsky.socials review on how acetylation mediated protein degradation impacts cancer! Thanks for the invite to contribute to the 10th anniversary special issue of Trends in Cancer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
I'm sorry but how, just how, is one suppose to focus on why there are no colonies on their agar plate like a normal PhD student when the US scientific community is getting smacked around left, right, and center. Now, more than ever, take care of your mental health and well being 🩵
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'm sorry but how, just how, is one suppose to focus on why there are no colonies on their agar plate like a normal PhD student when the US scientific community is getting smacked around left, right, and center. Now, more than ever, take care of your mental health and well being 🩵
Reposted by Brianna Hill-Payne
Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator ✨
As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠
She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞
#BlackInNeuro
As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠
She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞
#BlackInNeuro
February 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator ✨
As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠
She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞
#BlackInNeuro
As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠
She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞
#BlackInNeuro
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February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Black history
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Black future
Black love
Black joy
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Black people
Black community
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Black kids
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Black ingenuity
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Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
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Meet the newly named hashtag#HannaGrayFellows! 👋
“HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer @leslievosshall.bsky.social
“HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer @leslievosshall.bsky.social
Meet the 2024 HannaGrayFellows!
YouTube video by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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January 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Meet the newly named hashtag#HannaGrayFellows! 👋
“HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer @leslievosshall.bsky.social
“HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer @leslievosshall.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the new and truly inspiring Hannah Gray Fellows🩵 Welcome to the HHMI community🩵🩵 #HannahGrayFellows
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
January 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Congratulations to all the new and truly inspiring Hannah Gray Fellows🩵 Welcome to the HHMI community🩵🩵 #HannahGrayFellows