Dr. Jessica Osterhout is a postdoctoral fellow in Catherine Dulac’s lab, where she will use 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 the neural immune response alters other homeostatic and social functions or behaviors. Dr. Osterhout received the Jane Coffin Child’s Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for this work. She received her PhD with Dr. Andrew Huberman at the University of California, San Diego where she discovered several molecular mechanisms that regulate axon targeting in the developing visual system.