PhD survival guide

Some brief advice for PhD students
Leonardo Almeida-Souza & Jonathan Baets
By now you have secured your place on a PhD programme, your project is beginning to crystallize and you have a paid position or a fellowship to support you financially during your time in the lab. Time to put your brain and body to work at last. But beware, although your PhD will have many thrilling moments of discovery and insight, there will also be many pitfalls and perils to overcome or avoid. Here, we hope to summarize some of those challenges and offer a few tips that might help budding PhD students survive the bad times and enjoy the good
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INTERNATIONAL CANCER GENOME CONSORTIUM

Este es el proyecto global en el que participa el INMEGEN. El ICGC es uno de los dos proyectos más grandes a nivel mundial (el oro es el TCGA). México es el único país latinoamericano en participar. En él están 13 países y 390 grupos de investigación.

ICGC Goal: To obtain a comprehensive description of genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic changes in 50 different tumor types and/or subtypes which are of clinical and societal importance across the globe.

!Al final esperamos tener 18000 tumores secuenciados!

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Pueden echarle un vistazo en icgc.org