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Cornett, Savvy
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Savvy Cornett

Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Integrative Biology


They/Them Pronouns. GnRH or bust.
slcornett@utexas.edu

Phone: 502-409-2577

Pronouns: They/Them/Their

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  • Biological sex varies across different levels of organization, and "female" and "male" do not exist as absolutes. 
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Undergrad: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

Co-advised by Hans Hofmann & Molly Cummings.

I study how nutritional status (how well fed an animal is) is integrated into the reproductive axis by the evolutionarily conserved GnRH peptide hormones in swordtail fish. 

  1. Cornett, S. L. (2015). A Field Guide to Kentucky’s Reptiles (2nd ed., Vol. 1). Blurb. https://www.blurb.com/b/6060466
  2. Cornett, S. L., Pablo, J. L. B., Wang, L. A., Jo, S., Brünger, T., Budnik, N., Hegde, M., DeKeyser, J.-M., Thompson, C. H., Doench, J. G., Lal, D., George, A. L., & Pan, J. Q. (2023). Scanning mutagenesis of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.2 using base editing. Cell Reports, 42(6), 112563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112563