Savannah Jane Lusk, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Email

savannah.barnett@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Addresses

One Baylor Plaza, T707 (Office): Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

BSc from Longwood University: 05/2015 - Farmville, VA; Chemistry, Biology

PhD from Dartmouth College: 06/2019 - NH; Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Websites

Professional Website

Podcast Website

Selected Publications

Savannah Lusk, Alexander Moushey, Nicholas Iwakoshi, Christopher G. Wilson, Aihua Li, and Russell Ray. " Postnatal surge of orexin via exaggerated orexin neurogenesis in spontaneously hypertensive rats during postnatal development. " Front Physiol. 2024 ;
Savannah Lusk, Christopher Ward, Andersen Chang, Avery-Twitchell Heyne, Shaun Fattig, Genevera Allen, Joanna Jankowsky, Russell Ray. " Breathe Easy, an Automated Respiratory Data Pipeline for Waveform Characteristic Analysis. Journal of Physiology " J Physiol. 2023 ;
Pubmed PMID: 37786382.
Savannah Lusk, Andrew McKinney, Patrick J. Hunt, Paul G. Fahey, Jay Patel, Jenny J. Sun, Vena K. Martinez, Ping Jun Zhu, Jeremy R. Egbert, Xiaolong Jiang, Benjamin R. Arenkiel, Andreas S. Tolias, Mauro Costa-Mattioli, Russell S. Ray. " A CRISPR toolbox for generating intersectional genetic mice for functional, molecular, and anatomical circuit mapping " BMC Biol. 2022 ;
Pubmed PMID: 35086530.
Savannah Barnett and Aihua Li. " Orexin in respiratory and autonomic regulation, health and diseases " Comp Physiol. 2020 ;
Pubmed PMID: 32163209.
Alberto Bucci, Savannah Dunn*, Gianfranco Bellachioma, Gabriel Menendez Rodriguez, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Carlo Nervi, and Alceo Macchioni. " A Single Organoiridium Complex Generating Highly Active Catalysts for both Water Oxidation and NAD+/NADH Transformations. " ACS Catal. 2017 ;
Yuan Chang, Savannah Lusk, Russell Ray. " Vglut2-based glutamatergic signaling in central noradrenergic neurons is dispensable for normal breathing and chemosensory reflexes. " eLife. 2023 ;

Memberships

International Society for the Study and Prevention of Perinatal and Infant Death

American Physiological Society

Funding

Interactions of the Noradrenergic and Serotonergic Systems in Autoresuscitation #1F32HL160073: $222,978.00 (09/15/2022 - 09/15/2025); Grant funding from NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Promoting Pediatrician Collaboration between CFRT and Communities to Reduce SUID: $10,000.00 (04/04/2024 - 01/31/2025); Grant funding from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention (NCFRP)