Theanne Griffith is an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology at the University of California, Davis, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University. She has received numerous awards for her research and science outreach, including the Science Educator Award from the Society for Neuroscience. She has appeared on the PBS series NOVA, NPR’s science podcast Short Wave, and other programs. She is also an award-winning author of 15 science-themed children’s books.