GENERAL SUMMARY/ OVERVIEW STATEMENT: We are seeking a bright and motivated individual for a Research Technician I position in the laboratory of Andrew Luster, M.D., Ph.D., in the Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID). The CIID is a multidisciplinary research center whose goal is to discover new molecular pathways that regulate the host immune and inflammatory response to allergic, autoimmune, infectious, and malignant diseases.Dysfunction of the immune system is responsible for causing or worsening many diseases. Allergic diseases, such as asthma, are caused by an inappropriate immune response to harmless environmental proteins while respiratory viruses, such as influenza, cause much of their pathology by unleashing a dysregulated over exuberant im