Marino Swanzy-Krah

Excited to be speaking at this year’s Biophysical Society Presidential Symposium on the importance of communicating science to the public 👩🏾‍🔬🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪👩🏾‍🔬

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...

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.

Congrats to my colleague Dr. Theanne Griffith @doctheagrif.bsky.social
for receiving a 2025 Rising Star of Neuroscience award! ⭐️ 🧠 ⭐️

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.

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...

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...

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!

Current advances in large‐pore channels: From structure–function to physiology and disease Click on the article title to read more.

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!

Looks very accurate and well written to me!!!🤓

Portrait of Kyndall Nicholas smiling, labeled as an HHMI Gilliam Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania, set against a soft-focus background.

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.

“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.

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! 🌟

A thrilling achievement! We are so proud of you @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social!!!!

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! 🎉🏖️🐬

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.

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...

Guillaume Urtecho, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow at UC San Diego, conducting research in a laboratory.

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.

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 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

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

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...

US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

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!🌞🫶 🔬

‘Stand Up for Science’ organizer explains why she's protesting at the California Capitol YouTube video by KCRA 3

Proud of my wife, she can rally people like a pro! #StandUpForScience

No wind will defeat us! #StandUpForScience

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-...

Let’s go SacTown!!!!! Tomorrow is the day!!!! #StandUpForScience

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…

Thank you to the Daily Democrat for running a preview on our @standupforscience.bsky.social Sacramento Rally!
www.dailydemocrat.com/2025/03/04/y...

The lab needed a break from all this craziness. Some joined @doctheagrif.bsky.social l and me for a fun ski day at Tahoe!

“Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations”. We proudly celebrate the incredible #PMB faculty whose dedication and innovation are shaping the future of physiological science—through their research, mentorship, teaching, and leadership. #WomensHistoryMonth

#BlackInBiophysics

As #BlackHistoryMonth comes to a close, we reflect upon the remarkable achievements of Black biophysicists. We congratulate outstanding the “Black In Biophysics” seminar co-chairs and speakers at #BPS2025.

We are committed to promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in #STEM fields ✊🏾

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We now can confirm the California State Senate Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Sacramento Mayor Pro Tem Eric Guerra are also CONFIRMED SPEAKERS at our Sacramento @standupforscience.bsky.social rally!!! @bera.house.gov and @mikethompson.house.gov ready to join us? March 7th!!