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Barcelona Project

in science on 13 July 2010

Summary

One of the presentations I had to give during my stay in Barcelona. Detailed some of the progress made in characterizing the response of different Drosophila species to a set of odors.

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I spent summer 2010 in Barcelona conducting research at the Centre de Regulacio Genomica in Matthieu Louis's lab. In July I presented my work up to that point, which can be viewed below.

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