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 👷🏾♀️
Super excited to launch POCAxOMAP with @dschweppe.bsky.social and @oligopain.bsky.social and led by Eli Biletch, Conor Herlihy and Lidan Li. If you’ve ever wanted to do proximity labeling on DNA, RNA, or protein without genetic engineering, look no further. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So incredibly proud of my PI😭, absolutely deserved, Congratulations 🎊🎊🎊
George Burslem@gburslem.bsky.social · 5mo agoThank you to all the friends, collaborators, lab members and mentors who made this happen!
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
My 5th grader's world is imploding with long division of decimals homework. My world is imploding as my defense is in 3 months. Its funny to see how life's challenges evolve over time. We will conquer long division and this defense 🤣
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.
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/...
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...
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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 💙
George Burslem@gburslem.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to @briehp.bsky.social who gave an awesome Knowles award talk at the Bioorganic GRC! Very proud PI!
Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular protein editing enables incorporation of noncanonical residues in endogenous proteins
The ability to study proteins in their native cellular context is crucial to our understanding of biology. In this work, we report a technology for intracellular protein editing, drawing from split in...
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George Burslem@gburslem.bsky.social · 2y agoEver wanted to edit a protein sequence inside a living mammalian cell? Maybe to site specifically incorporate a non-canonical residue? Perhaps you’d like to do a pull down without an antibody? Or use a small molecule fluorophore to image an endogenous protein? 1/4
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
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. 💔
@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!
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…
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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/ ☀️⬇️🌎
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/...
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.
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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 🩵
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
Happy: 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 Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤
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
Meet the 2024 HannaGrayFellows!
YouTube video by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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Congratulations to all the new and truly inspiring Hannah Gray Fellows🩵 Welcome to the HHMI community🩵🩵 #HannahGrayFellows
HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 2y agoToday we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
