Daniela doing PhD

Honestly, doing a PhD is more about being resilient than being intelligent.

When someone is inside the lab wearing shorts under their lab coat:

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.… #JIDJournal #DermatologyJournal #dermatology #dermresearch #dermscience #dermatologyresearch #skin

Saturday morning, drinking coffee, and analyzing data while listening to good songs 🙂‍↕️

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 🙂‍↔️".

@DaniBeckman Such an inspiration to see other Latina women being successful in Science!

I'm also an immigrant, Brazilian, 100% Latina and all these terrible characteristics that deviate me from the golden standard. But you can check my publications and decide by yourself if I'm qualified or not. scholar.google.com/citations?user…

The hateful DMs I get telling me I'm not qualified to talk about cognitive deficits in #LongCovid always fall in one of these categories: 1) I’m a PhD, not MD 2) I’m a woman 3) I’m too young So original, we never heard this before. Keep sending, its fuel for us. #WomenInSTEM

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...

@profmikeking @Rice_BIOE @BMESociety @creinhartking Everyone in my lab was so excited about the plushies and t-shirts. My undergrad was carrying the plushie everywhere like it was his baby 😂

Check out these awesome limited edition T shirts they are giving away at the Rice BIOE booth at #BMES2025 ! Some AI-savvy Owl must have designed this bad boy… . . . 🙋🏼‍♂️

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. bit.ly/4qn6CZV

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.

My PI: Who taught you how to analyze RNAseq data? Me:

When your YouTube ads are about new lab equipment 🫠🫠🫠

I swear to God that mentoring students is the most fun and at the same time stressful thing that has happened to me.

Liu lab presenting our research at BIC 2025 🥳 @uci_bme

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? 😒🤡

There's a certain beauty about having the lab for your own...

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 🥹