[6] The work that Griffith did at Smith involved GABA receptors and their roles as anesthetic targets to understand menthol and propofol.
[6][13][14] During her postdoctoral training, Griffith joined Ellen Lumpkin's lab at Columbia University in the Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, where she researched mechanosensation and how tactile sensations are sent.
[6][15][16] Griffith's postdoctoral research specifically examined the role of tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channels on action potentials in the presence of menthol-sensitive vesicular glutamate transporter 3 activity.
This phenomenon is intensified for menthol-sensitive neurons when tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channels subunits drive action potential firing.
[19] The Griffith Lab studies mammalian thermosensation to determine which ion channels are critical in health and disease.
[28] The series comprises nine books: How to Test a Friendship,[29] Brain Trouble, Riding Sound Waves, The Great Germ Hunt, Race Through Space, Storm Chasers, Human Body Adventure, Go Go Green Energy, and Rolling Through the Rock Cycle.
[32][2] In the School Library Journal, Jessica Trafton described How to Test a Friendship as “great for kids who are looking for an adventure that isn’t scary.