Mexico Project, Ferrell (1996)

Summary

An educational presentation I gave in Spanish about the differential equation model used in several papers to predict biological pathways.

At the beginning of my stay in Cuernavaca, Mexico, I gave a short presentation outlining the work to be conducted and the past literature on which we would base the new model.

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bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

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