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UC Davis |👩🏽‍🔬 Sensory <—> Motor 💪🏽| Women’s Basketball Fan | Award-winning Children’s Book Author 🧫📚 🧬 | she/her www.thegriffithresearchgroup.com

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Jun 19

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 💙💛💙💛

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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.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18d

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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension

Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 18d

At risk of spreading fear, I'm retweeting this without looking into the details

Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 18d

🚨🚨🚨⏰🧪 heads up to USA scientists with H1B visas who are currently abroad. This seems to be yet another way our government is destroying science. Call your immigration lawyer NOW!!

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 25d

She was amazing!!

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 25d

Common thread was definitely: be bold. Very happy I was able to bring two trainees, who I think had an awesome experience. The touch screen posters were super fun 🤩 It was also great getting to know several members of my fellow 2025 Freeman Hrabowksi cohort! Excited and energized to get to work 👩🏾‍🔬

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Sep 2

Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Aug 28

Look at these masked losers. This morning on 10th and Harrison.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump is acting like a Chinese Communist Party asset: Trying to kill the American clean energy industry — ensuring an energy shortage & skyrocketing costs — as China smartly rockets ahead with massive clean energy expansion.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks so much!

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you!

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 23

Da Nang Vietnam 😇

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy August 5 to all who celebrate! 😊🙌🏾#Alabamabrawl #Fadeinthewater #Thebruhsdonotplay #Aquamayne #IYKYK

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 4

Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bloomberg argues Zeldin’s plan to revoke EPA’s 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding is fiscally reckless: it might save ~$1T in compliance but risks ~$87T in climate damages.

Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.

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The $87 Trillion Bill That Comes From Denying Reality

Even putting aside science, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to reverse the finding that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to the public makes no economic sense.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 3

There are Black people in the future 👽

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 2

But also entire research areas are being de-prioritized or wiped out. I think our ability to advance knowledge of biological sex differences could definitely be at risk. Climate change related research, etc. All very much at risk.

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’m worried the longest lasting effect will be a loss of trainees. They could very reasonably become disillusioned with the process and decide to pursue something else. We are also at risk of losing a lot of international talent that has been crucial to scientific progress in the US.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · Jul 31

Texas Republicans, at Trump’s request, are redrawing their Congressional district lines to steal FIVE additional seats.

They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...

Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats

The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.

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Jorge E. Contreras @drcontrexin.bsky.social · Jul 29

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!

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

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