Marino Swanzy-Krah
@drswanzykrah.bsky.social
Cellular and Molecular Pharmacologist. Research Fellow in Microbiology and Pharmacology @SHIPGCU @GCUReach
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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...
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Congrats to my colleague Dr. Theanne Griffith @doctheagrif.bsky.social
for receiving a 2025 Rising Star of Neuroscience award! ⭐️ 🧠 ⭐️
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
for receiving a 2025 Rising Star of Neuroscience award! ⭐️ 🧠 ⭐️
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Congrats to my colleague Dr. Theanne Griffith @doctheagrif.bsky.social
for receiving a 2025 Rising Star of Neuroscience award! ⭐️ 🧠 ⭐️
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
for receiving a 2025 Rising Star of Neuroscience award! ⭐️ 🧠 ⭐️
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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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.
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Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Activity-driven proprioceptive synaptic refinement in the developing spinal cord by complement signaling mechanisms
Proprioceptive group Ia afferents detect muscle stretch to guide effortless and purposeful movement and make monosynaptic connections with spinal α–motor neurons to mediate reflexes, such as the stret...
www.biorxiv.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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!
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Large-pore channels: the Transformers of membrane proteins, versatile, dramatic, and never just selective or passive conduits.
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Current advances in large‐pore channels: From structure–function to physiology and disease
Click on the article title to read more.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Large-pore channels: the Transformers of membrane proteins, versatile, dramatic, and never just selective or passive conduits.
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
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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.
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“Basic scientific research is so appealing to me because, despite it being very frustrating and a lot of work, the payout is so amazing,” explains @fsantoriello.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher in HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler’s lab at Princeton.
June 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Basic scientific research is so appealing to me because, despite it being very frustrating and a lot of work, the payout is so amazing,” explains @fsantoriello.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher in HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler’s lab at Princeton.
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Congrats to HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars @channyskye.bsky.social , Josefina del Mármol (@delmarmollab.bsky.social), @yvetteefisher.bsky.social and Theanne Griffith (@doctheagrif.bsky.social), named 2025 McKnight Scholars for their demonstrated commitment to neuroscience & mentoring others! 🌟
June 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congrats to HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars @channyskye.bsky.social , Josefina del Mármol (@delmarmollab.bsky.social), @yvetteefisher.bsky.social and Theanne Griffith (@doctheagrif.bsky.social), named 2025 McKnight Scholars for their demonstrated commitment to neuroscience & mentoring others! 🌟
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A thrilling achievement! We are so proud of you @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social!!!!
Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by HHMI. We’re immensely honored to have two #PMB faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social , among this inspiring group. An incredible and well-deserved achievement! @ucdavis.bsky.social
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
www.hhmi.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A thrilling achievement! We are so proud of you @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social!!!!
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Very proud husband moment: my wife just pulled off a rare double, 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski and McKnight Scholar! 🎉 Huge congrats as well to my colleagues Elisa and Sergey. A big moment for @ucd-physiology.bsky.social
While they prep the party, we’re heading off to celebrate in Barbados! 🎉🏖️🐬
While they prep the party, we’re heading off to celebrate in Barbados! 🎉🏖️🐬
I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
health.ucdavis.edu
June 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Very proud husband moment: my wife just pulled off a rare double, 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski and McKnight Scholar! 🎉 Huge congrats as well to my colleagues Elisa and Sergey. A big moment for @ucd-physiology.bsky.social
While they prep the party, we’re heading off to celebrate in Barbados! 🎉🏖️🐬
While they prep the party, we’re heading off to celebrate in Barbados! 🎉🏖️🐬
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I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
health.ucdavis.edu
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
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Why don’t some probiotics supplements do much for our gut health?
To help answer this, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Guillaume Urtecho is studying the genes and enzymes that help bacteria thrive in the gut—insights that could benefit human health.
To help answer this, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Guillaume Urtecho is studying the genes and enzymes that help bacteria thrive in the gut—insights that could benefit human health.
June 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Why don’t some probiotics supplements do much for our gut health?
To help answer this, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Guillaume Urtecho is studying the genes and enzymes that help bacteria thrive in the gut—insights that could benefit human health.
To help answer this, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Guillaume Urtecho is studying the genes and enzymes that help bacteria thrive in the gut—insights that could benefit human health.
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You can't treat what you can't reach.
A new fleet of 1,000 "gene delivery trucks" could help bring more targeted gene therapies to the brain and spinal cord.
Dive deeper in this great article by @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com.
🧠📈 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
A new fleet of 1,000 "gene delivery trucks" could help bring more targeted gene therapies to the brain and spinal cord.
Dive deeper in this great article by @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com.
🧠📈 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
May 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You can't treat what you can't reach.
A new fleet of 1,000 "gene delivery trucks" could help bring more targeted gene therapies to the brain and spinal cord.
Dive deeper in this great article by @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com.
🧠📈 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
A new fleet of 1,000 "gene delivery trucks" could help bring more targeted gene therapies to the brain and spinal cord.
Dive deeper in this great article by @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com.
🧠📈 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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🪰 A team of Janelia researchers & collaborators have created a new set of tools for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies, providing an important #openscience resource for future studies of fly flight & courtship 🧠
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🪰 A team of Janelia researchers & collaborators have created a new set of tools for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies, providing an important #openscience resource for future studies of fly flight & courtship 🧠
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
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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
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US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first
US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first
Gene-editing breakthrough has potential to treat array of devastating genetic diseases soon after birth, scientists say
Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy.
International researchers have hailed the feat as a medical milestone, saying it demonstrated the potential for treating an array of devastating genetic diseases by rewriting faulty DNA soon after affected children are born. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first
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Happy Mother's Day! To all the brilliant and caring research lab moms out there, your “cell-fless” dedication and love is the nucleus of your work and your home. Have a great day!🌞🫶 🔬
May 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy Mother's Day! To all the brilliant and caring research lab moms out there, your “cell-fless” dedication and love is the nucleus of your work and your home. Have a great day!🌞🫶 🔬
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Proud of my wife, she can rally people like a pro! #StandUpForScience
‘Stand Up for Science’ organizer explains why she's protesting at the California Capitol
YouTube video by KCRA 3
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Proud of my wife, she can rally people like a pro! #StandUpForScience
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No wind will defeat us! #StandUpForScience
March 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
No wind will defeat us! #StandUpForScience
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Call to action: Stand Up For Science rallies organized world wide for March 7. #3E #USProtests #March7Science
If you aren't near the site of a #StandUpForScience rally, join the nationwide campus and workplace walkout at 12:00 PM.
More information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you aren't near the site of a #StandUpForScience rally, join the nationwide campus and workplace walkout at 12:00 PM.
More information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Call to action: Stand Up For Science rallies organized world wide for March 7. #3E #USProtests #March7Science
If you aren't near the site of a #StandUpForScience rally, join the nationwide campus and workplace walkout at 12:00 PM.
More information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you aren't near the site of a #StandUpForScience rally, join the nationwide campus and workplace walkout at 12:00 PM.
More information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
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Let’s go SacTown!!!!! Tomorrow is the day!!!! #StandUpForScience
Making signs with @doctheagrif.bsky.social and our wonderful UC Davis colleagues before tomorrow’s @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! See you at the Sacramento state capitol from 12-4! #sciencesaveslives #factsnotfear #curesnotcuts
March 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Let’s go SacTown!!!!! Tomorrow is the day!!!! #StandUpForScience
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Thank you to the Daily Democrat for running a preview on our @standupforscience.bsky.social Sacramento Rally!
www.dailydemocrat.com/2025/03/04/y...
www.dailydemocrat.com/2025/03/04/y...
Yolo County scientists and professors organize Stand Up for Science rally
Yolo County scientists and professors are sounding the alarm on political attacks against the American scientific community and are organizing a protest in front of the California capitol, hoping t…
www.dailydemocrat.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thank you to the Daily Democrat for running a preview on our @standupforscience.bsky.social Sacramento Rally!
www.dailydemocrat.com/2025/03/04/y...
www.dailydemocrat.com/2025/03/04/y...
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The lab needed a break from all this craziness. Some joined @doctheagrif.bsky.social l and me for a fun ski day at Tahoe!
March 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The lab needed a break from all this craziness. Some joined @doctheagrif.bsky.social l and me for a fun ski day at Tahoe!