[[File:ElenaBrindley.jpeg|thumb|ElenaBrindley.jpeg]]<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Elena Brindley is a University Innovation Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. She is a senior Biology major with over 3 years of laboratory experience, and she serves as a student leader in various capacities. Her previous research experiences include a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship studying protein interactions and crystallization at Drexel University College of Medicine in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a Summer Scholars Fellowship studying neural crest cell migration at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, MO, and Undergraduate Research examining mosquito vision and behavior at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Biological Sciences, for which she was named a Hoffman scholar. </span>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Currently, as a member of the University Innovation Fellows training program, she is collaborating with a team of fellow students to engage the entire campus in innovative thinking and promote entrepreneurship and creative problem-solving among students of all disciplines. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">She is very excited and honored to join the University Innovation Fellows team and is looking forward to promoting innovation on campus.</span>
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