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<br/>[[File:536817 10152014407782835 559860899 n.jpg|thumb|536817 10152014407782835 559860899 n.jpg]]<span style="font-size: 12pxsmall;">Jonathan is a University Innovation Fellow and Senior Biological Sciences major at the University of Notre Dameworking to expand innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, targeting non-traditional areas of study for innovation and entrepreneurship. Beginning a research career early in his high school years studying the evolution of epithelial sodium channel subunits in the brain, Jonathan's interests shifted to stem cell research after a scarring surfing accident during his research stint in the Canary Islands, Spain.</span>

<span classstyle="s1font-size: small;">In entrepreneurship, through a course offered by From his matriculation at Notre Dame, Jonathan has developed and joining a flexible collagen derived substratestem cell laboratory, mimicking he realized that the consistency future of skin science and medicine lies beyond the traditional, single scientist centered model, and instead must embrace a team-based, highly collaborative model to address continue to make breakthroughs at the growing need for surgical residents to address pace the stringent limits on their training hours while still gaining technical precision necessary to field has become successful surgeons. He is currently transferring the material into a filament adaptable to current generation 3D printers in order accustomed to print organs derived from MRI scans, a technology that was developed by another undergraduate at Notre Dame.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span class="s1">With that in mind, he dove into teaching, starting as a Freshman tutor, progressing to Teaching Assistantships and finally as acting Co-Chair of the Biology Senior Leadership Committee. To realize his dream of inclusive science, Jonathan serves as the Co-Science Chair of the NSF STEM Ambassadors grant tasked to increase STEM retention rates by offering academic, social, and career mentorship from a student-to-student basis across all STEM fields. He also serves as the Undergraduate Director of the DNA Learning Center, currently revamping a community outreach program to expose middle school students to molecular biology through the study of the effects of pollution on gene expression and cancer.</span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span class="s1">In entrepreneurship, through a course offered by Notre Dame, Jonathan has developed a flexible collagen derived substrate, mimicking the consistency of skin to address the growing need for surgical residents to address the stringent limits on their training hours while still gaining technical precision necessary to become successful surgeons. He is currently transferring the material into a filament adaptable to current generation 3D printers in order to print organs derived from MRI scans, a technology that was developed by another undergraduate at Notre Dame.</span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span class="s1">Jonathan joined the UIF program with the dream of creating an all-inclusive environment for undergraduate students to coordinate innovative, large scale entrepreneurial projects. Through UIF, he hopes to gain the skills required to create infrastructure and curricular changes to foster this type of cross-disciplinary thinking that will shape science and medicine in the future.</span></span> [[Category:Student Contributors|j]][[Category:Student Contributors]]