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Janelia Farm Closing Symposium

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The Janelia Undergrad program ended with a all-day Symposium during which each undergrad had around 15 minutes to present the results of their project. It was a fun way to end the summer and see what the others had been up to.

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At the end of the summer at Janelia Farm, the undergrads had to give a 15 minute presentation of their work that summer (along with presenting at a poster session afterwards). Below is my presentation; as usual, I created a custom PowerPoint theme using PowerPoint and Adobe.

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