NINDS K99/R00 Awardee - October 2019
Jessica Osterhout is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. In Catherine Dulac’s lab, her research uses recently developed tools for genetic profiling and circuit analysis to molecularly identify fever-inducing neurons and map their connectivity patterns, thereby gaining new insight into how neurons in the brain contribute to the immune response as well as how the neural immune response alters other homeostatic and social functions or behaviors. Uncovering the cell types and brain circuits activated during sickness will be critical to understanding brain function in normal and pathological contexts. She received her Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of California, San Diego, and earned her B.S. in biology from the University of Oregon.