Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽🔬🇭🇷
@doctheagrif.bsky.social
UC Davis |👩🏽🔬 Sensory <—> Motor 💪🏽| Women’s Basketball Fan | Award-winning Children’s Book Author 🧫📚 🧬 | she/her www.thegriffithresearchgroup.com
Very honored to be selected as one of the @thetransmitter.bsky.social 2025 Rising ✨Stars ✨ in Neuroscience! Learn more about our work and those of the other awardees here! here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Very honored to be selected as one of the @thetransmitter.bsky.social 2025 Rising ✨Stars ✨ in Neuroscience! Learn more about our work and those of the other awardees here! here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
Mark your calendars! October 30th 2pm EST/11am PST The @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host the JUST-B Fall Seminar! Now it’s more important than ever to support our trainees as they share their awesome science.
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Mark your calendars! October 30th 2pm EST/11am PST The @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host the JUST-B Fall Seminar! Now it’s more important than ever to support our trainees as they share their awesome science.
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
I had an amazing experience at my first @hhmi.org Science Meeting! It was very fun to hear about the cool work done by HHMI labs across disciplines. It was also very interesting to see the commonalities and differences in approaches used by scientists from diverse fields.
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I had an amazing experience at my first @hhmi.org Science Meeting! It was very fun to hear about the cool work done by HHMI labs across disciplines. It was also very interesting to see the commonalities and differences in approaches used by scientists from diverse fields.
Major milestone achieved Wednesday: my very first grad student delivered his exit seminar. Dr. Cyrrus Espino is a science rock star and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to contribute to his development. Very excited to see what’s to come in what will surely be a successful career. Cheers Doc!
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Major milestone achieved Wednesday: my very first grad student delivered his exit seminar. Dr. Cyrrus Espino is a science rock star and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to contribute to his development. Very excited to see what’s to come in what will surely be a successful career. Cheers Doc!
These supernumerary synapses are pruned in a proprioceptor-activity dependent manner.
A cool finding was that impaired proprioceptor activity fails to induce expression of proteins in the complement signaling cascade, which we hypothesized leads to persistent intersegmental synapses.
A cool finding was that impaired proprioceptor activity fails to induce expression of proteins in the complement signaling cascade, which we hypothesized leads to persistent intersegmental synapses.
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
These supernumerary synapses are pruned in a proprioceptor-activity dependent manner.
A cool finding was that impaired proprioceptor activity fails to induce expression of proteins in the complement signaling cascade, which we hypothesized leads to persistent intersegmental synapses.
A cool finding was that impaired proprioceptor activity fails to induce expression of proteins in the complement signaling cascade, which we hypothesized leads to persistent intersegmental synapses.
If you sent me an email in the last few weeks, my bad. This is how it found me 😎 promise I’ll get back to you soon.
August 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you sent me an email in the last few weeks, my bad. This is how it found me 😎 promise I’ll get back to you soon.
Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰
There are Black people in the future 👽
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
There are Black people in the future 👽
On our way to the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Meeting! Passed by a lovely exhibition at SFO. Surprised to see it still standing! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
On our way to the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Meeting! Passed by a lovely exhibition at SFO. Surprised to see it still standing! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
Yesterday I had the chance to let @mikethompson.house.gov know just how important it is he continue advocating against the destructive federal research funding cuts. I spoke about the importance of our research and how the cuts are affecting future generations of scientists.
August 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yesterday I had the chance to let @mikethompson.house.gov know just how important it is he continue advocating against the destructive federal research funding cuts. I spoke about the importance of our research and how the cuts are affecting future generations of scientists.
Offline for the next two weeks celebrating all the blessings. See ya’ll in a bit 🌞🌊🌈🌴😘🌞
June 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Offline for the next two weeks celebrating all the blessings. See ya’ll in a bit 🌞🌊🌈🌴😘🌞
Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy out there 💙💙💙 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy out there 💙💙💙 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo
June 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo
Trump is about to deport all them white South Africans he just brought over.
June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Trump is about to deport all them white South Africans he just brought over.
Yolo/Sac friends. Let’s go ✊🏾
June 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yolo/Sac friends. Let’s go ✊🏾
In SF supporting CA science and SB829 which would create an independent California Science Institute. This would allow innovation to thrive here despite the federal BS. @scottwiener.bsky.social @drcontrexin.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In SF supporting CA science and SB829 which would create an independent California Science Institute. This would allow innovation to thrive here despite the federal BS. @scottwiener.bsky.social @drcontrexin.bsky.social
Saw this guy on an afternoon walk through the @ucdavis.bsky.social arboretum with @drcontrexin.bsky.social! Never saw one so big in the wild. Easily 3+ feet long 😳
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Saw this guy on an afternoon walk through the @ucdavis.bsky.social arboretum with @drcontrexin.bsky.social! Never saw one so big in the wild. Easily 3+ feet long 😳
Having an excellent family-work trip in Portland! @drcontrexin.bsky.social presented today while I took the girls to @omsiedu.bsky.social. I’m up at the @volluminstitute.bsky.social Thursday! Never been to Portland before and it hasn’t disappointed! Thanks for the invite @kevinmawright.bsky.social!
April 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Having an excellent family-work trip in Portland! @drcontrexin.bsky.social presented today while I took the girls to @omsiedu.bsky.social. I’m up at the @volluminstitute.bsky.social Thursday! Never been to Portland before and it hasn’t disappointed! Thanks for the invite @kevinmawright.bsky.social!
Davis let’s goooooooo!!! Tomorrow, Central Park 12pm!!
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Davis let’s goooooooo!!! Tomorrow, Central Park 12pm!!
HANDS OFF ✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏾
April 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
HANDS OFF ✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏾
Haha I love how this turned into me being a lead organizer for the @standupforscience.bsky.social Sacramento Rally 🤣😂🤣
March 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Haha I love how this turned into me being a lead organizer for the @standupforscience.bsky.social Sacramento Rally 🤣😂🤣
I am extremely proud to be a Jack & Jill Mom. If you’re not familiar, Jack & Jill is the premier family organization in the US whose mission is to foster the next generation of a Black leaders and simultaneously improve the lives of all children through community service and philanthropy. #WeGotUs
March 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I am extremely proud to be a Jack & Jill Mom. If you’re not familiar, Jack & Jill is the premier family organization in the US whose mission is to foster the next generation of a Black leaders and simultaneously improve the lives of all children through community service and philanthropy. #WeGotUs
Appropriate time to bring back my 5th grade winning essay: “Libraries change lives. I should know. Both my parents were poor growing up. But because of libraries, they became successful college professors. With the help of libraries, they found the books they needed, and those books were free.”
March 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Appropriate time to bring back my 5th grade winning essay: “Libraries change lives. I should know. Both my parents were poor growing up. But because of libraries, they became successful college professors. With the help of libraries, they found the books they needed, and those books were free.”