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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬

@schmittwitt.bsky.social
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Cell signaling & metabolism & biosensors. Asst Prof. Cat mom. She/her. Los Angeles. Posts are my own views not my employers.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you to Dolly (& all the scientists who made this possible)!! Vaxxed & relaxed
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research. n.pr/4ycseLJ
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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MBIDP and MD/PhD students stopped by the lab for a lab skills scavenger hunt where they had to determine how much a microplate would weigh if it spelled UCLA. Several groups were both accurate pipettors and creative! #gobruins
Micro plates full of colored water spelling UCLA.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I spent the last few days looking at trees and rocks and sand, and it’s really helped with the burnout. This week starts my fifth year at UCLA!
Looking up at a grove of coastal redwoods. View of the coast from the elk preserve at Pt Reyes. Danielle standing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New: Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar. RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants. JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump. TRUMP appeared to side with Vought. with @rbeggin.bsky.social
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Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash
A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In college I majored in chemistry and minored in religious studies, which explains this bookmark in one of the books I used for my class on Hinduism.
An equation for some sort of dimensional analysis in a copy of the Kamasutra.
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Parkinson's Foundation Research @pfresearchteam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 Congratulations to 2026 Impact Awardee, Danielle Schmitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose project focuses on functional imaging of PINK1 activity dynamics. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Friends of Oakland Animal Services is doing a bad pet portrait fundraiser, and my pet portrait is so cute!!!
A painting of two cats cuddling.
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The final version of our paper describing the development of iGlo, a glutamine biosensor, is now available. All plasmids are on Addgene! pubs.rsc.org/cb/article/d...
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Eligibility for SNAP is changing, resulting in millions no longer receiving aid. If you're able to, consider monetary donations to your local food bank. With monetary donations, food banks are able to buy fresh foods, food in bulk, and support operational costs. www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
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Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Federal officials offered the new details about the grant cancellations as part of an agreement with plaintiffs meant to spare the government an exhaustive, evidence-uncovering process known as discovery...That process could have required federal agencies to hand over more damaging records."
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Every year I organize a lab professional development day. It takes some time and creativity to put on, but everyone learns something new. I was fortunate to get a lot of training and professional development along the way, and this is how I can give my lab the same experience.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I teach a large (100+) enrollment upper division biochemistry class. I had online assessments for one quarter. I spent that quarter grading Chat. Since then, I use in-person, mostly paper-based assessments for course content. It’s “old school” but it works for me!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The LRP is an awesome program. It helped pay for over half of my college debt. 100% recommend checking if you are eligible and applying
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Every year I organize a lab professional development day. It takes some time and creativity to put on, but everyone learns something new. I was fortunate to get a lot of training and professional development along the way, and this is how I can give my lab the same experience.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Anyone else get emotional watching the USMNT celebrating their win while an entire stadium sings “County Roads”? Just me?
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congrats to Katarina, who presented her work on developing Meteor at the recent Chemical Biology in the Greater Los Angeles Area Meeting and won a poster prize!
Katarina posing in front of her poster.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Delta has included an instrumental version of “Born This Way” in their boarding music, happy pride.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This week in the lab we’ve turned in article proofs, resubmitted a manuscript, submitted a new manuscript, had a grant rejected, and had a grant selected for funding. It’s amazing to see how far my lab has come in 4 years! I’m so proud of our accomplishments.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Check out our new biosensor for methionine, Meteor! Plasmids will be deposited with Addgene soon!
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
☄️New biosensor!☄️ We present Meteor, our GFP-based methionine optical reporter, which can be used to measure methionine dynamics across scales, from subcellular to organisms like C elegans! Plasmids will be deposited with Addgene. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Revealing the spatiotemporal dynamics of methionine metabolism with a genetically encoded single-fluorophore biosensor
Methionine is an essential amino acid, used for protein synthesis, redox homeostasis, and methylation reactions throughout the cell. However, the compartmentalized dynamics of methionine have remained...
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today I received a departmental award for excellence in inclusion & mentoring! It really means a lot to me to receive this award, and that all my efforts to be an effective mentor to my trainees, at UCLA, and beyond are recognized. Thank you so much to my lab members who nominated me for this award.
Danielle standing next to Osvaldo Gutierrez, both recipients of departmental awards for excellence in inclusion and mentoring.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The staff at @sciam.bsky.social is hosting a Summer Reading Challenge! With prizes! Details on how to join here: tinyurl.com/jny9p9rn (Send me ur book recs! 🤓) #SciAmBookBingo #SciAmSummerReading
Summer Reading Challenge bingo card
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The California primary election is this coming Tuesday! I dropped my ballot off at a secure drop box in my neighborhood and my ballot has been received and accepted!
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Dropped my ballot off at a secure drop box! Less than a week left to vote, California!
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It took me about 40 minutes but I have voted! I’ll drop off my ballot tomorrow morning at the secure drop box in my neighborhood. Bless the legal aid groups who put together voter guides for the 2+ pages of judges.
The 4 page (front and back) California primary ballot.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My not discussed grants (submitted in Oct, reviewed in May) have been upgraded to Not Discussed+!
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2026
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear. n.pr/4dwU7Fi
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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Will you survive? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/w...
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Will you survive?
There was a distressed post that flew by on Blüski this week. How are we to survive this? How will academic scientists get through this chaos and assault on our profession? You either will, or you …
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📚New review! Led by our amazing post-bac Arnav, we have put together a history of AMPK biosensors & highlighted some cool use cases! We hope this review will help broaden the adoption of biosensors in the field & increase our understanding of dynamic AMPK activity. portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...
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Illuminating compartmentalized AMPK signaling in single cells
Abstract. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a crucial regulator of cellular energy balance, affecting numerous downstream targets across various subcellular locations. Under cellular energy stres...
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Growing up, my dad took us to conferences. DC, Santa Barbara, Florida. Now my parents are going with me to conferences. Here’s my mom and I in Honolulu for Pacifichem. Happy Mothers Day, Mom.
Danielle and her mom at the Honolulu airport, both wearing LA hats.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This Canvas outage reminds me of that time in grad school when a fellow TA deleted the grades for all 500 students taking gen chem lab from Blackboard (we managed to recover the grades).
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🍾 Congrats to @charlotteek.bsky.social the 7th graduate student to advance to candidacy in the Schmitt Lab! Charlotte passed with flying colors!
Polaroid picture of Charlotte with a bottle of champagne in front of a sign that says “PhD Candidate”. A series of Polaroid photos of graduate students in the Schmitt Lab who have advanced to candidacy.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
SHARE SHARE SHARE youtu.be/ms5DzHgDbN4?...
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The U.S. built the future with this agency. Trump wants to destroy it.
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Stand Up for Science Foundation (a nonpartisan 501c3) is launching a new Institute to craft and implement policy that will address the damage to federal agencies and institutions, recenter evidence-based decision making, and reestablish the United States as a global leader in science. 2/7
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
✨New Review✨ Coordinated by Mia Sung, we contributed to a new review about non-invasive imaging of single cell dynamics! Written by leaders in the field, this comprehensive review discusses how we can measure single cell dynamics, with a section on metabolite biosensors. www.cell.com/trends/cell-...
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Noninvasive methods to monitor dynamic single-cell events
Adaptations to changing environments manifest in various cellular activities across multiple timescales, where single-cell responses can occur asynchronously between individual cells. Hence, accurate ...
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Lukasz Bugaj @bugajlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Abstracts due in 2 weeks for the Signal Dynamics FASEB! Many speaking slots will be filled from submitted abstracts events.faseb.org/event/Dynami...
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Abstracts/Presentations - Dynamics and Encoding in Cell Signaling.
Explore advances in cell communication, signaling, and imaging tech at this unique conference, bridging diverse molecular pathways and systems biology.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ari Belshi hosted “All In” tonight on MS Now and has a great segment about the destruction of biomedical research in the US. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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WaPo bombshell: RFK's CDC burying report on Covid vaccine success
Podcast Episode · All In with Chris Hayes · April 10 · 42m
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
These days doing academic science can feel pretty bleak. Then my trainees show me amazing data that makes us really excited about the questions we are asking and it gives me a bit of "hope core" as someone said today.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I called my representative and spoke to a staffer.
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/04/2026
UCLA has defeated South Carolina 79-51 to win the women's NCAA basketball tournament, securing the Bruins' first national title in the program's history. cnn.it/3PIV3hP
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I spent a month’s worth of rent on Olympic tickets, but I’m going to the women’s soccer, rugby 7s, and skateboarding finals!!!!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 01/04/2026
The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Spring break
Danielle at Keyes Lookout in Joshua Tree National Park. Danielle standing in a field with some Joshua Trees in the background. Danielle standing on San Jacinto mountain with the Coachella Valley in the background.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I enjoy going to conferences and visiting friends on the East Coast but I do a very poor job of adjusting to the time change. It’s nice to be back in LA and getting normal amounts of sleep! And of course, my cats.
A tuxedo cat named Stella licking her lips. A tabby cat named Bea hiding under a bed.
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I live a 15 min drive from the beach in LA. Next week we might get to 90F or more…in March. 🫠
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The Schmitt Lab is at ASBMB! Check out our posters over the next few days!
Members of the Schmitt Lab in front of an ASBMB 26 sign.
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Schmitt Lab will be at ASBMB 2026! Check out our posters and learn about what the Schmitt Lab has been up to!
A flyer advertising Schmitt Lab posters at ASBMB 2026 on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
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