Daniela doing PhD

BME PhD student 🔬 UC Irvine 💙💛 EXATec 🐏
Mexican surviving in the US 🇲🇽🇺🇸

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Journal of Investigative Dermatology @theJIDJournal]

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" https://t.co/5x942GYOow #JIDJournal #DermatologyJournal #dermatology #dermresearch #dermscience #dermatologyresearch #skin

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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 😵‍💫

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

Me training someone: "... and now you want to smack the hell out of this plate until it's dry 🙂‍↔️".

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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 @DanieladoingPhD]

@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 😂

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

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.

https://t.co/BZhRNnL63K

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

Sometimes the only thing I need is to do my little silly experiments while listening to my favorite songs 🙂‍↔️

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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.

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

Liu lab presenting our research at BIC 2025 🥳 @uci_bme

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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?
😒🤡

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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 🤡

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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.

[Daniela doing PhD @DanieladoingPhD]

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 🥹