Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Determinants of Food Allergy

The laboratories of Timothy Moran, Johanna Smeekens, and Julia Rager are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join a multidisciplinary team investigating how the early-life home environment influences the development of food allergy. Using house dust collected from homes in the SUNBEAM birth cohort, the team will characterize food allergens, microbial communities, and immunostimulatory exposures and evaluate their associations with food allergy outcomes in early childhood. The project is supported by an NIH R01 and offers training in the environmental determinants of allergic disease, with a multidisciplinary mentoring team spanning allergy, immunology, and environmental health. The postdoc will lead day-to-day processing and exposure characterization of the dust samples, including hands-on laboratory processing, allergen and microbial assays, and analysis of assay and sequencing data.