BME PhD student 🔬 UC Irvine 💙💛 EXATec 🐏 Mexican surviving in the US 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Irvine, CA
Joined May 2022
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Daniela doing PhD retweeted
A new Methods and Techniques for Skin Research article by Daniela Enriquez-Ochoa et al., "Methods and Techniques for Dissecting Mechanical Regulation of Wound Healing using Photocrosslinkable Biomaterials" doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2025.1… #JIDJournal #DermatologyJournal #dermatology #dermresearch #dermscience #dermatologyresearch #skin
The story says that in the 5th year of your PhD you become into "Labzilla" and at any minor inconvenience you become stressed and want to kill everyone 😵💫
Me training someone: "... and now you want to smack the hell out of this plate until it's dry 🙂↔️".
I've been fan girling this big name in the field for a long time. I finally met him in person because I wanted to do a postdoc with him and realized he was not friendly at all. Science is important but having a good mentor is even more...
Daniela doing PhD retweeted
University of California faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes this week, setting a new record for the most faculty of one institution to achieve this great honor in a single year 🏅💙 💛
These remarkable achievement highlight the ongoing contributions of America’s #1 public research university and the central role of federal funding in advancing world-changing scientific inquiry.
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Sometimes the only thing I need is to do my little silly experiments while listening to my favorite songs 🙂↔️
If you see me blasting the Lizzie McGuire movie soundtrack through my headphones while I do cell culture, let me, that's where I want to be.
I swear to God that mentoring students is the most fun and at the same time stressful thing that has happened to me.
Me teaching my 19 year old undergrad how to analyze BCA data:
Me: Ok do you have Excel?
Him: No, that's so Gen Z.
Me: Ok, how would you analyze this, then?
Him: Ammm... with a calculator and my notebook?
😒🤡
Me: No, no, no, I don't want to do Western blots 😤
Also me: Doing Western blots every week 🤡
Also me: Training 4 people in the last few months on how to do Western blots 🤡
It's not just about the research.
It's about your mentor and your labmates. The people surrounding you make a big impact in your professional development, too.
It's really satisfying to see my undergrads grow professionally. They didn't knew how to pipette when they started in the lab and now they are applying to research internships at other universities... My Shaylaaaaaa 🥹
Challenges for taking your advancement exam:
1. Generate significant data.
2. GET 4 PROFESSORS THAT WANT TO BE IN YOUR COMMITEE.