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Re:Map of an Insect’s Brain by anonymouskimmer on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:28AM (#35116991)
What do you actually work on? I'm a synthetic biologist and know a hell of a lot about manipulating pieces of DNA. I know a bit about other branches of lab and academic biology. And I can remember some of the chemistry classes I've taken, usually a bit after the fact.

Are you saying this because you've spent time reading and/or researching fruit fly behavior studies? Or for some other reason?

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Re:Map of an Insect’s Brain by epgui on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:42AM (#35117442)
I currently work as a software/data engineer, but spent 12 years doing fundamental biochem & life science. My MSc was on the characterization of extracellular vesicles in the context of horizontal transfer of information in ccRCC (kidney cancer) cell lines.

I worked closely with one prof (not my PI) who specializes in the study of mitochondrial metabolism in fruit flies, but fruit flies are not my area of expertise. I know just enough to know that there’s an enormous amount of literature on the subject.

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