The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) is proud to announce the winners of the Research Technical Staff Award, which recognizes staff for their distinguished service to the UMN Research community. Each winner received a personal honorarium of $2000.
Shout out to Erin Lind ~
Erin Lind serves as a research project specialist in the Department of Neuroscience, director of the Mouse Behavior Core in the Institute of Translational Neuroscience, and associate director of the MnDRIVE Optogenetics and Neuromodulation Core. In these roles, Lind supports preclinical research, provides academic and technical support, troubleshoots obstacles, and promotes research advancements across multiple scientific fields. She has worked with over 60 labs across 20 departments, providing support across 10 buildings throughout the Twin Cities campus. She is active on the IACUC protocols of 26 PIs and is also PI on her own IACUC/IBC/CS protocols for training core staff and testing new approaches and procedures. Lind holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Minnesota.
"Erin is a true team player and goes above and beyond to help ensure the needs of the research community are met. If she sees an area that needs attention or a need that hasn’t been met, she finds a way to take care of it. If a lab needs help, even in areas outside of her cores or job description, she strives to accommodate them. If she doesn’t know how to do something, she figures out a way to learn it. If she doesn’t have the answer, she connects you with someone who does. In brief, our research environment is a considerably richer one with Erin as a part of it."
