News

News in 2013

August 2013

Undergraduate Amanda Hu joins the lab.

Barry Zee successfully defends his PhD dissertation, and if now off to his Postdoctoral position at Harvard University.

Ben Garcia is named an Editorial Board Member for the Molecular and Cellular Proteomics (MCP) Journal.

Xiaoshi Wang joins the lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.

July 2013

Graduate students Kelly Karch (BMB) and Sam Wein (BMB) join the lab, welcome!

June 2013

Ben Garcia wins the Biomed Research Central Award in Molecular and Cellular Sciences (http://www.biomedcentral.com/researchawards/2013-winners).

Symposium of Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics and Peptidomics, Mexican Society for Proteomics, Cancun, MX.

The lab returns from a great trip for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in Minneapolis. MN.

Undergraduate Rebella Rahman and high school student Daniel Thomas join the group for summer research.

Laura-Mae Britton wins a New Jersey Section American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group travel award to present her poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference.

February 2013

Yumiao Han joins the lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.

News in 2012

October 2012

The Garcia Lab is moving! Ben Garcia has been recruited to join the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Epigenetics Program (http://www.med.upenn.edu/epigenetics/) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Read about it here (http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/benjamin-garcia-appointed-presidential-term-professor-penn).

June 2012

Congratulations to undergraduates Jessie Gu and Devorah Haberman who have graduated and will be off in the next phase of their careers.

May 2012

The lab attends the American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in Vancouver, Canada. We had 5 posters (Barry, Bhanu, Masa, Michelle and Shu presented) and talks by Laura-Mae, Rosie, Nick and Ben.

Ben Garcia gives an invited talk at the 11th Annual Symposium of the New York University Center for Genomics & Systems Biology in New York, NY.

April 2012

Tobias Maile has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher, welcome Tobi.

The Garcia lab is mentioned in the article “Controlling The Code” from ACS Chemical and Engineering news magazine which describes how pharmaceutical companies are becoming more interested in epigenetic space for drug discovery. Former Garcia lab member Eric Chan is shown in a photo running an Orbitrap mass spectrometer. Read about it here (http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i16/Controlling-Code.html).

Ben Garcia gives an invited talk and short course lecture at the Netherlands Proteomics Centre in Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

March 2012

Ben Garcia is quoted in a Nature careers news feature on epigenetics titled “Epigenetics: Marked for success.”  Read about it here (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/nj7391-637a.html)

February 2012

Congratulations to Nick Young who has left to start as the Director of Biological Mass Spectrometry at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee FL.

Ben Garcia has been selected to receive an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship (http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/21).

Barry Zee is awarded a Sigma Xi Grant for his research.

February 2012

Zuo-Fei Yuan joins the lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.

January 2012

Congratulations to Peter DiMaggio who has left to start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Imperial College in London.

News in 2011

December 2011

The Garcia lab participates in the Celebrate Princeton Invention symposium (http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/princetoninvention/archive/archive/index.xml?id=6231).

November 2011

Ben Garcia is quoted in a Proteome Monitor website news feature on Top Down Proteomics. Read about it here (http://www.genomeweb.com/proteomics/kelleher-lab-ids-3000-plus-protein-species-new-high-throughput-top-down-proteomi)

October 2011

High school student Aashna Mago joins the group.

September 2011

Ben Garcia has been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a ceremony will be held at the White House next month.  See official press release (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/26/president-obama-honors-outstanding-early-career-scientists)

Congratulations to Michelle Gonzales-Cope who has passed her general exam!

Visiting graduate student Huiyan Li joins the group for the fall semester.

August 2011

Xing-Jun Cao joins the group as a Postdoctoral researcher.

July 2011

Undergraduate Lauren Cohn (Mercer Community College) joins us for summer research.

Shu Lin joins the group as a Postdoctoral researcher.

June 2011

Congratulations to Laura-Mae Britton who has passed her general exam!

Undergraduates Neeli Mishra (Caltech) and David Migl (Texas A&M), and MD/PhD rotation student Jose James join us for summer research.

The lab returns from a successful showing at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in Denver, CO. We had 8 posters (Anna, Barry, Rosie, Gary, Pete, Nick, Rich and Michelle presented) and a talk by Ben.

Undergraduate Devorah Haberman (’12) joins the lab for her thesis research.

May 2011

Congratulations to undergraduates Paolo Esquivel, Ying Fan, and Micheal O’Donnell who have graduated and are off to bigger and better things!

Natarajan Bhanu joins the group as a research scientist.

Ben Garcia is quoted in a Proteome Monitor website news feature on proximity ligation assays and their potential for Top Down proteomics.  Read about it here (http://www.genomeweb.com/proteomics/expanded-proximity-ligation-assay-could-prove-valuable-biomarker-studies-top-dow)

Congratulations to Rosie Molden for being selected for a New Jersey Section American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group travel award to present her poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in June.

April 2011

Ben Garcia gives an invited talk at the Proteomics 2011 Symposium held at the Children’s Hospital Boston, MA.

Ben Garcia gives an invited talk at the Emerging Technologies in Proteomics Symposium held at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

Ben Garcia is quoted in a Proteome Monitor website news feature on advances in Top Down proteomics.  Read about it here (http://www.genomeweb.com/proteomics/top-down-proteomics-inching-its-way-toward-mainstream)

March 2011

Ben Garcia gives an invited talk at the New Jersey American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Discussion group meeting, Somerset, NJ.

Sherry Liu joins the research group as our new lab manager.

Ben Garcia is elected to the Board of Directors for the US Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), and also gives a talk and co-leads a workshop on “Top Down Proteomics” at the U.S. HUPO conference in Raleigh, NC.

February 2011

Ben Garcia chairs an “Epigenetics Technology” session at the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities conference in San Antonio, TX.

Undergraduate Jessie Gu (’12) joins the lab for her thesis research.

Ben Garcia has been named the recipient of the New Jersey American Chemical Society Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry.

News in 2010

December 2010

Ben Garcia, David Botstein, Josh Rabinowitz and Leonid Kruglyak have received an Agilent Thought Leader Award to support their collaborative work in systems biology.

Barry Zee has been named a “Young Investigator” by the Bioanalysis journal published by Future Science Publishing, Congrats.

November 2010

Congratulations to Rosie Molden who has passed her general exam!

September 2010

Ben Garcia is named an NIH Director’s New Innovator award recipient (http://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/Recipients10.aspx).

July 2010

Ben Garcia attends the Molecular and Cellular Proteomics/ASBMB guidelines committee meeting for refining principles and defining needs for data/results repositories and peptide/protein post-translational modification documentation held in Boston, MA.

Ben Garcia attends the British Society for Proteome Research Conference held in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Ben gives a Keynote talk on recent work involving histones and cancer.

June 2010

Congratulations to high school student Neeli Mishra, who has graduated and will be attending Caltech in the fall.

May 2010

Congratulations to undergraduates Ian Flaniken and Rebecca Levin who have graduated and will be moving on to medical school at the University of Alabama and graduate school at UCSF, respectively.

Graduate students Laura-Mae Britton, Michelle Gonzales and Daniel Wolle (joint with Paul Schedl) join the group, welcome and get to work!!

The group attends the annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Salt Lake City, UT. Nicolas Young and Barry Zee present posters on their work.

Postdoctoral researcher Eric Chan joins the group.

April 2010

Another congratulations to Barry Zee for being awarded a New Jersey Section American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group travel award to present his poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in May.

Ben Garcia attends the Experimental Biology Meeting held in Anaheim, CA.  Ben gives an invited short talk in the “New Frontiers in Quantitative Proteomics” session.

Congratulations to Barry Zee for being awarded an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship!

Ben Garcia attends and gives the Plenary Lecture at the 10th Annual Korean Human Proteome Organization (KHUPO) International Conference held at the Seoul National University, South Korea.

March 2010

Neeli Mishra wins multiple awards including the Grand Prize at the 57th Mercer Science and Engineering Fair.  This qualifies her to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, CA.  Congrats Neeli!

Ben Garcia is named an Associate Editor of BMC Genomics (Proteomics section).

February 2010

Peter DiMaggio and Nicolas Young have both been awarded National Institutes of Health F32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Congrats guys!

Ben Garcia is named an Emerging Investigator by the Molecular Biosystems Journal

Undergraduates Paolo Esquivel (’11), Ying Fan (’11), Michael O’Donnell (’11) and Erick Kazarian (’12) join the group.

January 2010

Postdoctoral researcher Peter DiMaggio joins the group.

Ben Garcia attends the Keystone Symposium on Chromatin Structure and Regulation held in Taos, NM. Ben gives an invited talk about the quantitative analysis of histone modifications.

Rebecca Levin wins a Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of research for her undergraduate research work.

Graduate student Anna Arnaudo joins the group.

Adam Evertts and Barry Zee pass their General Exams, they are now official!!

Mariana Plazas-Mayorca successfully defends her PhD dissertation to become the first PhD graduate from the group.  She is now off to her postdoc position at Penn State University.

News in 2009

December 2009

Graduate student Rosie Molden joins the group.

November 2009

Ben Garcia is awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER award.

The Garcia group receives a New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Seed Grant to study epigenetic changes in cancer cells.

Ben Garcia is invited to sit on an NIH review panel for high end instrumentation (mass spectrometry) for shared instrumentation grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The Garcia group’s research work in collaboration with the Floudas group (Chem. Eng.) is featured on the Princeton University website (http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/84/98G62/index.xml?section=topstories)

October 2009

Ben Garcia and Gary Leroy attend the ThermoFisher Mass Spectrometry Group Discussion meetings in Somerset, NJ and Boston, MA.  Ben gives invited talks about the group’s current research.

The Garcia group along with the Floudas (Chem. Eng.) and Rabinowitz (Chemistry and Genomics) groups are awarded a National Science Foundation Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

September 2009

Ben Garcia attends the Ninth International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in the Health & Life Sciences: Molecular & Cellular Proteomics in San Francisco, CA. Ben gives an invited talk on quantitative proteomics applied to histone research.

August 2009

Nicolas Young’s paper is published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics and is immediately named a Faculty of 1000 “Must Read” article (http://f1000biology.com/article/xfbr2bczkb18729/id/1164285/evaluation/sections)

The Garcia group and Constellation Pharmaceuticals begin collaboration on histone modifications and modifying enzymes in disease.

July 2009

Undergraduate Surabhi Srivastava (Pace University), and high school students Elyse Sartor and Stephen Fredericks join the group for summer research.

Postdoctoral researcher Gary Leroy “officially” joins the group.

June 2009

Graduate students Adam Evertts (joint with the Coller lab) and Barry Zee join the group.

Princeton undergraduate Georgia Yang (’12) joins the group.

Ben Garcia is awarded the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research award.

Nicolas Young and Ben Garcia present oral presentations at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Peter DiMaggio, Mariana Plazas-Mayorca and Zia Kahn also attend to present posters on their work.

May 2009

Ben Garcia is invited to participate on a committee to draft revised guidelines for publication of proteomic data for the Molecular and Cellular Proteomics Journal and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Mariana Plazas-Mayorca is awarded a New Jersey Section American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group travel award to present her poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference.

March 2009

Neeli Mishra wins multiple awards at the 56th Mercer Science and Engineering Fair for High School Students for her research work in the group.

January 2009

Princeton undergraduates Rebecca Levin (’10) and Ian Flaniken (’10) join the group.

News in 2008

December 2008

Ben Garcia attends the 6th International Uppsala Conference on Electron Capture and Transfer Dissociation. Ben gives an invited talk describing the use of electron transfer dissociation to sequence histone proteins.

October 2008

Former summer undergraduate researcher Andrea Beltran wins a best poster award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students for her summer research in the Garcia group.

The Garcia group attends the ThermoFisher Mass Spectrometry Group Discussion meeting in Somerset, NJ. Ben gives an invited talk about the group’s current research.

June 2008

Undergraduates Andrea Beltran (Hunter College) and John Weston (Cedarville University) join the group for summer research.

High school student Neeli Mishra joins the group.

April 2008

Ben Garcia is awarded an American Chemical Society Leadership Development award and attends a Leadership conference in Dallas, TX.

March 2008

Graduate student Mariana Plazas-Mayorca joins the group

Ben Garcia attends the PITTCON conference in New Orleans, LA.  Ben gives two invited talks on the use of HILIC for proteomic separations.

February 2008

Postdoctoral researcher Nicolas Young joins the group.

The Garcia research group officially begins at Princeton University