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Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
@daniela_oaks
Studying cancer genomics in Latin America. PI @LIIGH_UNAM /Int'l Fellow @SangerInstitute /PhD @Cambridge_Uni /BSc @lcgunam. Views are my own. She/her/hers
Querétaro, México
liigh.unam.mx/drobles
Joined August 2012
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jul 18, 2018
    I was told by a PhD thesis committee member that if I returned to Mexico after a postdoc I would "fade into mediocrity". However, I did return to my home country, started my own lab, and are now well funded to investigate the genetics and genomics of cancer in Mexican patients.
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    Amanda Deibert
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    Apr 24, 2018
    What is something you were told you could never do (or do well) that you have accomplished/are in the process of accomplishing?
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Aug 30, 2021
    I just got an email from someone in the US asking me for advice on how to obtain samples from Latin American countries without having to recognise sample providers w/ authorship in the resulting paper. Needless to say I was furious. Friends, please don't do this #colonialscience
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jun 17, 2022
    Someone just replied to an email I sent in 2019.
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jul 29, 2022
    Time to update the email signature.... 😉
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Nov 3, 2023
    Excited to have official confirmation from @wellcometrust of our Career Development Award! This will support our lab's work on somatic genomics in Latin America for the next 8 years. It was intimidating defending our project at the Trust's offices in London but so worth it! 🥳
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jan 18, 2022
    Dangers of online shopping: confusing one tortilla with one kg of tortilla (I only wanted 12 tortillas....)
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Oct 2, 2024
    I am confused. Where my ancestors FIRST originated? Should everyone select Africa? What is an ancestor?? #elsevier
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Dec 12, 2020
    Replying to @VictoriaLandy2 and @AndrewSolender
    My title literally says Doctor of Philosophy. What is misleading about that?
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Sep 20, 2021
    Thank you @ligaze for the interview and to @BettinaRyll for making the connection 😊 This is just one of a series of pieces that Andrew has done on scientists from the Global South! Go check his page for more 😄 and thank you for highlighting work done in Latin America!
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    Forbes Science
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    Sep 19, 2021
    Meet The Mexican Cancer Scientist Unlocking Melanoma Mysteries forbes.com/sites/andrewwi…
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jul 23, 2021
    I received copies today of the book "Next generation sequencing and data analysis", @SpringerNature aimed at students interested in learning these techniques. We contributed to two chapters 😊 (let me know if you'd want to borrow the book 😉) #Bioinformatics
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Apr 10, 2021
    Rocking the blue hair #pandemic look (is that a thing?)
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jun 7, 2021
    I am so happy this is out now! In this piece, I tell my experience moving to Mexico from the UK five years ago, write about fears and hopes I had back then, and the responsibilities I took over when I moved back home.
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    Nature Genetics
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    Jun 7, 2021
    OUT NOW @NatureGenet Going home: the challenges and rewards of genetics research in Mexico 🇲🇽 A World View article by @daniela_oaks about setting up her cancer #genomics research lab in Mexico after training in the UK. 👉go.nature.com/2RuPTIi
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Feb 11, 2021
    So many "international" symposiums completely ignore scientists in Latin America, Asia & Africa. Sometimes even Australia. What they really mean is "US and Europe". Please do better. The rest of the world does science too; research may be different in scope because of priorities.
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    Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
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    Jan 8, 2021
    It's online so it's official! Happy to start as International Fellow @sangerinstitute & looking forward to working w/ @imartincorena, @David_J_Adams, @Matt_Hoare20 & Peter Campbell! Also excited to see @chewapreecha, @pablotsukayama & @goyoiraola there 😄
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