Job Description
**Job Description**
**The Department of Immunology has an outstanding opportunity for a Temporary Research Scientist/Engineer 2 to join their team.**
**About this Opportunity:**
Reporting to Professor, the temporary Research Scientist/Engineer 2 will work in the Oberst Lab within the Department of Immunology. The Oberst Lab studies programmed cell death and inflammation in models of viral encephalitis, autoimmunity, allergy and cancer. Patients afflicted with viral encephalitis report memory loss, brain fog and motor impairments that may last years after the virus is cleared; these patients are also at increased lifetime risk for neurodegeneration and dementia. It is not clear how viral infection changes the brain to cause these long-term sequelae. We have created systems to mark and analyze cells responding to viral infection, and to assess their function long after the virus has been eliminated from the brain. This position will support research work using ...
**The Department of Immunology has an outstanding opportunity for a Temporary Research Scientist/Engineer 2 to join their team.**
**About this Opportunity:**
Reporting to Professor, the temporary Research Scientist/Engineer 2 will work in the Oberst Lab within the Department of Immunology. The Oberst Lab studies programmed cell death and inflammation in models of viral encephalitis, autoimmunity, allergy and cancer. Patients afflicted with viral encephalitis report memory loss, brain fog and motor impairments that may last years after the virus is cleared; these patients are also at increased lifetime risk for neurodegeneration and dementia. It is not clear how viral infection changes the brain to cause these long-term sequelae. We have created systems to mark and analyze cells responding to viral infection, and to assess their function long after the virus has been eliminated from the brain. This position will support research work using ...