Daianna Gonzalez-Padilla

About me

I’m a post-baccalaureate researcher working on the assessment of stratified Mendelian Randomization approaches for the detection of causal exposure effects on clinical outcomes varying across strata of the population (e.g. variable disease risk or therapy efficacy across sexes, ages, and ancestries). In previous research analyzing omics data, I have studied brain development and disease, and have characterized genetic determinants of drug response.

Education

📍: on-site  |  : remote

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Morelos, Mexico 2020 - 2024
B.S. in Genomic Sciences (LCG) 📍🇲🇽

Research experience

Medical Research Council - Biostatistics Unit (BSU), University of Cambridge, UK Sept 2025 - Present
Research assistant in the Mendelian Randomization group of Dr. Stephen Burgess. 📍🇬🇧

Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Sept 2024 - Sept 2025
Research assistant in the Immune Genomics group of Dr. Gosia Trynka. 📍🇬🇧

Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), Baltimore, MD Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Undergraduate researcher in the Data Science team of Dr. Leonardo Collado-Torres. 📍🇺🇸 |

Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden Aug - Nov 2023
Undergraduate researcher in the Personalized Medicine and Drug Development lab of Dr. Volker Lauschke. 📍🇸🇪

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA Feb - Jul 2022
Intern in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub with Dr. Xianjun Dong.

Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG), Morelos, Mexico Feb - Jul 2021
Undergraduate researcher in the Systems Biology lab of Dr. Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez. 📍🇲🇽 |

Publications

Population-scale variability of the human UDP-glycosyltransferase gene family. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Camara, M. D., Lauschke, V. M., & Zhou, Y. (2024).

Molecular impact of nicotine and smoking exposure on the developing and adult mouse brain. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Eagles, N. J., Cano, M., Pertea, G., Jaffe, A. E., …, Martinowich, K., & Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Integrated QTL mapping and CRISPR screening in pooled iPSC-derived microglia reveals genetic drivers of neurodegenerative risk. | Perez-Alcantara, M., Washer, S., Chen, Y., Steer, J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Trynka, G., & Bassett, A. (2025).

Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex. | Huuki-Myers, L. A., Montgomery, K. D., Kwon, S. H., Cinquemani, S., Eagles, N. J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Bioinformatics perspectives on transcriptomics: A comprehensive review of bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analyses. | Tzec-Interian, J. A., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., & Gongora-Castillo, E. B. (2025).

Presentations

Annual Bioconductor Conference 2023 , Boston, MA Aug 2023
 Presented a short talk titled “Modeling the effects of nicotine and smoking exposures on the developing mouse brain”. 📍🇺🇸
 Presented a long workshop titled “A Bioconductor-style differential expression analysis powered by SPEAQeasy”.
 Presented a Birds-of-a-feather session titled “Bioconductor and the Latin American Bioinformatics Landscape”.

NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Meeting 2024, Bethesda, MD Jun 2024
Poster presentation titled “Transcriptomic changes in habenula and amygdala following chronic fentanyl self-administration in rats” | Yalcinbas, E. & Gonzalez-Padilla, D. 📍🇺🇸

PGRN Annual Meeting 2024, Columbus, OH Sept 2024
Oral presentation titled “Population-Scale Variability in the Human Uridine Diphosphate (UDP)-Glycosyltransferase Gene Family”. 📍🇺🇸

Software

Tutorials and teaching materials

Skills

  • Programming: , , , C/C++, and Perl.
  • Bioconductor package development
  • GitHub
  • Compute clusters and Bash scripting
  • Quarto websites 🌐

Achievements

National CARMA Women’s Mathematics Olympiad Mar 2020
🥇 Gold medal 📍🇲🇽

33rd National Mexican Mathematics Olympiad (OMM) Nov 2019
🗞 Honorable mention 📍🇲🇽

Interests and Hobbies

I love to paint 🎨 practice yoga 🧘🏻‍♀ cheese 🧀 and dogs 🐩.

Please refer to my CV for more details about my education, past research and teaching experience, presentations and courses, publications, and ongoing projects. In case of questions or queries, feel free to contact me in any of my media.


Last Updated: 2025-09-10

Daianna Gonzalez-Padilla

About me

I’m a post-baccalaureate researcher working on the assessment of stratified Mendelian Randomization approaches for the detection of causal exposure effects on clinical outcomes varying across strata of the population (e.g. variable disease risk or therapy efficacy across sexes, ages, and ancestries). In previous research analyzing omics data, I have studied brain development and disease, and have characterized genetic determinants of drug response.

Education

📍: on-site  |  : remote

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Morelos, Mexico 2020 - 2024
B.S. in Genomic Sciences (LCG) 📍🇲🇽

Research experience

Medical Research Council - Biostatistics Unit (BSU), University of Cambridge, UK Sept 2025 - Present
Research assistant in the Mendelian Randomization group of Dr. Stephen Burgess. 📍🇬🇧

Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Sept 2024 - Sept 2025
Research assistant in the Immune Genomics group of Dr. Gosia Trynka. 📍🇬🇧

Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), Baltimore, MD Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Undergraduate researcher in the Data Science team of Dr. Leonardo Collado-Torres. 📍🇺🇸 |

Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden Aug - Nov 2023
Undergraduate researcher in the Personalized Medicine and Drug Development lab of Dr. Volker Lauschke. 📍🇸🇪

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA Feb - Jul 2022
Intern in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub with Dr. Xianjun Dong.

Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG), Morelos, Mexico Feb - Jul 2021
Undergraduate researcher in the Systems Biology lab of Dr. Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez. 📍🇲🇽 |

Publications

Population-scale variability of the human UDP-glycosyltransferase gene family. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Camara, M. D., Lauschke, V. M., & Zhou, Y. (2024).

Molecular impact of nicotine and smoking exposure on the developing and adult mouse brain. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Eagles, N. J., Cano, M., Pertea, G., Jaffe, A. E., …, Martinowich, K., & Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Integrated QTL mapping and CRISPR screening in pooled iPSC-derived microglia reveals genetic drivers of neurodegenerative risk. | Perez-Alcantara, M., Washer, S., Chen, Y., Steer, J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Trynka, G., & Bassett, A. (2025).

Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex. | Huuki-Myers, L. A., Montgomery, K. D., Kwon, S. H., Cinquemani, S., Eagles, N. J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Bioinformatics perspectives on transcriptomics: A comprehensive review of bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analyses. | Tzec-Interian, J. A., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., & Gongora-Castillo, E. B. (2025).

Presentations

Annual Bioconductor Conference 2023 , Boston, MA Aug 2023
 Presented a short talk titled “Modeling the effects of nicotine and smoking exposures on the developing mouse brain”. 📍🇺🇸
 Presented a long workshop titled “A Bioconductor-style differential expression analysis powered by SPEAQeasy”.
 Presented a Birds-of-a-feather session titled “Bioconductor and the Latin American Bioinformatics Landscape”.

NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Meeting 2024, Bethesda, MD Jun 2024
Poster presentation titled “Transcriptomic changes in habenula and amygdala following chronic fentanyl self-administration in rats” | Yalcinbas, E. & Gonzalez-Padilla, D. 📍🇺🇸

PGRN Annual Meeting 2024, Columbus, OH Sept 2024
Oral presentation titled “Population-Scale Variability in the Human Uridine Diphosphate (UDP)-Glycosyltransferase Gene Family”. 📍🇺🇸

Software

Tutorials and teaching materials

Skills

  • Programming: , , , C/C++, and Perl.
  • Bioconductor package development
  • GitHub
  • Compute clusters and Bash scripting
  • Quarto websites 🌐

Achievements

National CARMA Women’s Mathematics Olympiad Mar 2020
🥇 Gold medal 📍🇲🇽

33rd National Mexican Mathematics Olympiad (OMM) Nov 2019
🗞 Honorable mention 📍🇲🇽

Interests and Hobbies

I love to paint 🎨 practice yoga 🧘🏻‍♀ cheese 🧀 and dogs 🐩.

Please refer to my CV for more details about my education, past research and teaching experience, presentations and courses, publications, and ongoing projects. In case of questions or queries, feel free to contact me in any of my media.


Last Updated: 2025-09-10