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Jessica Osterhout

@osterhoutlab.bsky.social

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I study the neurobiology of sickness. Asking how the immune system controls behavior. Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. Formerly at Harvard, UCSD, UofO. Osterhoutlab.com

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · Aug 14

Honored to be selected as a 2025 Pew Scholar! Grateful to the Pew for funding our work to understand how the brain decodes the immune response. @pewtrusts.org

University of Utah Health Research @uuhsresearch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations to Jessica Osterhout, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology at @utah.edu, on joining the 2025 class of Pew Scholars and Fellows. She’ll investigate how the immune system communicates with the brain during sickness.
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Neurobiologist Jessica Osterhout Selected as Pew Scholar

Jessica Osterhout, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, has been selected as a 2025 Pew Scholar by the Pew Charitable Trus...

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ain’t no party like a pasta party 🥂

Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Headed to #KSNeuroImmune25 !! Check Michelle Swarovski’s talk on immune-brain communication and Danielle Hermanson’s poster to see how social environments impact sickness (and why the man flu might be real) 😆 @keystonesymposia.bsky.social

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · May 15

A few of the incredible women representing the future of neuroimmunology #neuroimmuneGRC

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · May 2

SO PROUD of my student Jackie Nguyen - AND she took home best poster at this years #usasp2025. This woman is a total rockstar 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 @usasp.bsky.social

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Three generations of @dulaclab.bsky.social lab members!

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Jessica Osterhout @osterhoutlab.bsky.social · Apr 7

SO pumped to present our latest discoveries this week at the Brain Barriers @cshlmeetings.bsky.social. We’ve found key brain cells underlying primary immunoception. Come find out how your brain sense an immune response!

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