People

Ben Garcia
PI
PhD: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Research Interest:Everything
[email protected]

Francisca Vitorino
Lab Manager

Emily Zahn
Mass Spectrometry Manager/Scientist

Tom Lin
Staff Scientist

Libby Porter
Postdoctoral Researcher

Yixuan “Axe” Xie
Postdoctoral Researcher
Garcia Lab West (WashU)
PhD: University of California, Davis USA
Research Interest:Quantitative mass spectrometry for analyzing RNA modifications and oncohistone mutations

Joanna Lempiainen
Postdoctoral Researcher

Xingyu Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher

Rashmi Karki
Graduate Student

Rick Searfoss
Graduate Student

Kirill Miachin
Graduate Student

Joanna Gongora
Lab Technician
B.Sc., Chemical Biology and Pharmacology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
Research Interest: Histone Post Translational Modifications
Fun Fact: I’m a Soca music enthusiast
E: [email protected]
T: @JoannaGongora
Lab Alumni
Name | Position while in the Garcia | LabLast Known Position |
Mariana Torrente | PhD Graduate Student | Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College |
Barry Zee | PhD Graduate Student | Scientist at Cell Signaling Technologies |
Adam Evertts | PhD Graduate Student | Research Analyst at LifeSci Advisors |
Rosie Molden | PhD Graduate Student | Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals |
Laura-Mae Britton | PhD Graduate Student | Assistant Medical Director at MedEdNow, LLC |
Michelle Gonzales-Cope | PhD Graduate Student | Lecturer at Hawaii Pacific University |
Anna Arnaudo | PhD Graduate Student | AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow |
Edwin Yoo | PhD Graduate Student | Medical Student at Temple University |
Kelly Karch | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ohio State University |
Sam Wein | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tubingen |
Dylan Marchione | PhD Graduate Student | Scientist at Servier Pharmaceuticals |
Mariel Coradin | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Colorado |
Kevin Janssen | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Amber Weiner | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Yekaterina Kori | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at Abbvie |
Khadija Wilson | PhD Graduate Student | Technical Specialist at Sterne Kessler |
Richard Lauman | PhD Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at UPenn |
Mariel Mendoza | PhD Graduate Student | Scienist at Merck |
Hung Mai | Master’s Graduate Student | Graduate student at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine |
Nicolas Young | Postdoctoral Scientist | Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine |
Gary Leroy | Postdoctoral Scientist | Research Assistant Professor at NYU |
Peter Dimaggio | Postdoctoral Scientist | Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London |
Eric Chan | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceutical |
Tobias Malle | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Calico |
Leila Afjehi-Sadat | Postdoctoral Scientist | |
Shu Lin | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Dartmouth School of Medicine |
Xiaoshi Wang | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Novavax |
Yumiao Han | Postdoctoral Scientist | Household Director |
Johayra Simithy | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Absorption Systems Panama |
Xing-Jun Cao | Postdoctoral Scientist/Technical Director | Scientist at Innovent Biologics, Inc. |
Yanping Lin | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Johnson & Johnson |
Ranran Wu | Postdoctoral Scientist | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Anumita Saha-Shah | Postdoctoral Scientist | Merck Co. |
Simone Sidoli | Postdoctoral Scientist | Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Zuo-Fei Yuan | Postdoctoral Scientist/Scientist | Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Hospital |
Jen Liddle | Postdoctoral Scientist | University of Connecticut proteomic core facility |
Congcong Lu | Postdoctoral Scientist | Assistant Professor Nankai University |
Geoff Dann | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at the Dana Farber Institute |
Stephanie Miller Lehman | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at GSK |
Lindsay Pino | Postdoctoral Scientist | Scientist at Talus Bio |
Kasia Kulej | Postdoctoral Scientist | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Josue Baeza | Postdoctoral Scientist | Independent Fellow at UPenn |
John Wojcik | Research Fellow/Instructor | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
Rong Meng | Research Specialist | Scientist at Johnson & Johnson |
Sherry Liu | Research Specialist | Household Director |
Qi Guo | Research Specialist | Research Specialist at Emory University |
Joe Cesare | Research Specialist | MD/PhD at the University of Kansas |
Hyoungjoo Lee | Technical Director | Technical Director at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Nanika Coetzee | Visiting Graduate Student | Graduate Student at University of Pretoria, South Africa |
Catarina Charneira | Visiting Graduate Student | Graduate Student at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Minghui Chen | Visiting Graduate Student | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ohio State University |
Xiaolu Zhao | Visiting Professor | Professor at Wuhan University |
Julia Pinheiro Chagas Da Cunha | Visiting Professor | Professor at the Instituto Butantan, Brazil |
Rebecca Levin | Undergraduate Student | Graduate Student at UCSF |
Ian Flaniken | Undergraduate Student | Pediatric Resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham |
John Weston | Undergraduate Student | Medical School |
Andrea Beltran | Undergraduate Student | Medical School |
Georgia Yang | Undergraduate Student | Software Engineer at Apple |
Surabhi Srivastava | Undergraduate Student | Graduate Student at Yale School of Public Health |
Patrick Puliti | Undergraduate Student | Undergraduate Student at Rutgers University |
Lauren Cohn | Undergraduate Student | |
Erick Kazarian | Undergraduate Student | Universiy of Michigan Medical School |
Michael O’Donnell | Undergraduate Student | MD/MBA Candidate at New York University |
David Migl | Undergraduate Student | Graduate Student at Harvard University |
Devorah Haberman | Undergraduate Student | Consultant at Deloitte |
Jessie Gu | Undergraduate Student | Research Technician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Amandu Hu | Undergraduate Student | Deceased |
Rabeya Rahman | Undergraduate Student | Undergraduate Student at UC Santa Barbara |
Bhavna Jois | Undergraduate Student | Emerging Markets Regulatory Affairs Intern at Takeda |
Kella Tran-Du | Undergraduate Student | Research Specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Tara Lorimer | Undergraduate Student | Graduate Student at Columbia University |
Lucy Chu | Undergraduate Student | Traveling and then medical school |
Maura Gibbs | Undergraduate Student | Graduate student at UPenn |
Nia Harmon | Undergraduate Student | Florida State University |
Abby Lemmon | Undergraduate Student/Research Specialist | Graduate Student at MSK |
Adetola Alonge | Undergraduate Student | University of Florida |
Neeli Mishra | High School Student | Graduate Student at Columbia University |
Steven Fredericks | High School Student | Undergraduate Student at American University |
Elyse Sartor | High School Student | Emory Healthcare |
Aashna Mago | High School Student | Undergraduate Student at Stanford University |
Daniel Thomas | High School Student | Undergraduate Student at Northwestern University |
Aaron Garcia | High School Student | Undergraduate at Penn State University |
Ayushi Jain | High School Student | Undergraduate Student at the Washington University in Saint Louis |
Bella Garcia | High School Student | Undergraduate at the University of Minnesota |
Paige Reece | High School Student | Undergraduate at Temple University |