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Ben Garcia

@garcialabms.bsky.social
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Professor and Head of @WUSM_BMB. Studying protein PTMs in chromatin biology. #TeamMassSpec cheerleader. Working towards changing academia. Views my own 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

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UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry @uwbiochem.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Join us on May 4 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Benjamin Garcia. The @garcialabms.bsky.social is focused on developing & applying quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics & related computation for understanding dynamic protein & proteome PTMs. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
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Biochemistry Colloquium: Ben Garcia | UW–Madison Events Calendar
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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Award and abstract submissions due April 20! Join FASEB for #BioMethylSRC! Featuring speakers @garcialabms.bsky.social and @metorrespadilla.bsky.social alongside organizers @brianstrahl.bsky.social, @vanrechemlab.bsky.social, @bonalditiziana.bsky.social, and @rothbartlab.bsky.social. buff.ly/3GCABMr
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Successful day today at the @asbmb.bsky.social Capitol Hill Day. Great conversations with several offices. We have received great engagement. Appreciate their time and willingness to speak with us. Thank you to ASBMB for arranging over 120 meetings today with congressional representatives staff.
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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The incomparable @garcialabms.bsky.social Mr. President of @us-hupo.org teaching us all to be Benough.
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Ying Ge @yingge2121.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
@garcialabms.bsky.social WOW! Ben -President of USHUPO! So creative & impressive! #USHUPO2026
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Meet Benjamin Garcia (Ben Garcia), editor-in-chief of ASBMB’s new journal, IBMB! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-... #ASBMBJournals
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Meet the editor-in-chief of ASBMB’s new journal, IBMB
Benjamin Garcia will head ASBMB’s new journal, Insights in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which will launch in early 2026.
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ASBMB Journals @asbmbjournals.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Insights in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IBMB), ASBMB’s new gold open access journal will provide a welcoming home for the full spectrum of molecular life science discovery. Congratulations to inaugural Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Garcia (@garcialabms.bsky.social)! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-...
Benjamin Garcia, winner of the 2024 ASBMB Ruth Kirschstein Award for Maximizing Access in Science, delivers a talk at the 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting while standing in front of a backdrop that reads "Make It Possible."
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A new publishing home is here! Insights in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IBMB) is ASBMB’s new gold open access journal for all molecular life‑science discoveries. Fast, fair, author-friendly submissions led by editor-in-chief Benjamin Garcia (@garcialabms.bsky.social)! ow.ly/riuf50XveiS
Colorful 3D molecular structures representing complex biochemical interactions on a dark background for the cover of ASBMB’s forthcoming journal, Insights in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IBMB).
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Bush Lab @bushlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Field and Franklin Award for Mass Spectrometry is back! Since 1985, this award has recognize outstanding achievement in the development or application of #massspec #teammassspec. Please submit nominations by November 14! Nomination details: acsanalytical.org/awards-resou...
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Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards
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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!
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Chromatin profiling identifies putative dual roles for H3K27me3 in regulating cell type-specific genes and transposable elements in choanoflagellates
Nature Communications - Here, the authors investigate chromatin-based gene regulation in the closest relative of animal, choanoflagellates. They uncover a putative dual role for the histone...
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Last week, Washington University made the perhaps questionable decision to award me tenure.
Lab picture of Holehouse lab members past and present
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Full circle moment! While visiting ASBMB for a Maximizing Access Committee meeting, @garcialabms.bsky.social spotted one of his early JBC papers. www.jbc.org/article/S002... Do you remember the thrill of your early publications? Share below! @asbmbjournals.bsky.social #asbmbJBC #TeamMassSpec
Ben Garcia stands in front of a bookcase lined with past printed issues of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which have green covers and gold lettering. He is holding one of the journals open to his 2007 article "Organismal Differences in Post-translational Modifications in Histones H3 and H4."
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ASBMB Journals @asbmbjournals.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Peer review wouldn’t be the same without #asbmbJBC's Gaetano Santulli, Susan Bellis, Birte Svensson, #asbmbJLR's Bill Griffiths, John Parks, Robert “Nate” Helsley, #asbmbMCP's @garcialabms.bsky.social & so many others! Thank you for lending your time, expertise & passion to ASBMB journals. #PRW2025
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ASBMB Journals @asbmbjournals.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#TuesdayInspiration | ICYMI, last week was Peer Review Week (@peerreviewweek.bsky.social)! Reviewers are the pillars of #ASBMBJournals, and in observance of #PRW2025, the society recognized their contributions across JBC, JLR & MCP. ow.ly/zG7M50X18MX
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Top reviewers at ASBMB journals
Editors recognize the heavy-lifters and rising stars during Peer Review Week.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The best lab group ever!
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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Inspirational talk by Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social at the @acs.org American Chemical Society National Meeting today. Thanks to @acsbiol.bsky.social ACS Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Division for sponsoring this session.
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Jovan Tormes Vaquerano @jovantv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In this episode of “From Where Does it STEM”, @jpflores.rbind.io and I interview @garcialabms.bsky.social, a Department Head at WashU School of Medicine. Dr. Garcia discusses his journey from community college to becoming a world leader in mass spectrometry: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ncx...
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Breaking Down Barriers for Hispanic/Latinx Scientists: Dr. Benjamin Garcia
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts
Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Don't miss Garcia Lab oral and poster presentations at the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference. See everyone in Baltimore!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The undergraduate poster session at #ASMS2025 is the place to be tonight.
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HispanicLatinX_MS @hispanicslatinxms.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🍻 RSVP NOW!! 📢 The Hispanic & LatinX in MS group, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher, invites you to our Happy Hour at Pratt Street Ale House — just 1 minute from the Baltimore Convention Center! Everyone is welcome! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ASMS2025
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Although there has been many positive things happening lately for myself and my lab group, this week we've gotten the bad news of a grant termination, as the lead PI is at Harvard (and they've had all their federal funding terminated). It will be tough to stop the work that only last year 1/2
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Don't miss Garcia Lab oral and poster presentations at the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference. See everyone in Baltimore!
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HispanicLatinX_MS @hispanicslatinxms.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
✈️ ASMS 2025 Early Career Researcher Travel Awards ✈️ 📢 Call for Applications 📢 Don’t miss this opportunity! Applications are open from *May 12th to 23rd* 📧 hispanicsandlatinxinms.org/asms-2025-ea... #ASMS2025 #MSCommunity
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
That’s my daughter! 🤩
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy to share that I have been named a Fulbright Scholar. I will spend short periods in Brazil over the next two summers to begin new research collaborations and teach a short course. Its always been a dream of mine to one day be a part of this historic program to further global exchanges and 1/2
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pleased to announce the summer's Skyline Targeted Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Course - the week of July 7-11, 2025 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Details and registration information can be found here: skyline.ms/project/home... #massspecsky #proteomicssky #proteomics #skyline
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Start Page: /home/software/Skyline/events/2025 UW Course
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HUPO @hupo-org.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Manuscript Competition EXTENDED Deadline – May 4, 2025 ⏰ Present at HUPO 2025, compete for cash prizes & global recognition! ✅ Share your 2024/2025 research ✅ Dedicated plenary session ✅ “Proteomics Highlight of the Year” 🔗 Details: 2025.hupo.org/early-career-researchers/ #HUPO2025
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A bat flew into our house yesterday and it went exactly how’d you expect that would go in a comedy movie. I wish I would have taken a picture or video of it, but I was too busy breaking everything in the house with a pool net and oven mits on to take a pic.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Just opened our pool. First swimmer of the season arrived.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Congratulations to Andrea Soranno for being selected as a 2025 Dean's Impact Award winner from our @wusm-bmb.bsky.social department, recognizing his enduring commitment and achievement in community building and engagement.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great meeting my ASBMB Professional Rounds Program mentee Charles Agbavor at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) conference today. He’s an incredible young upcoming scientist! @asbmb.bsky.social
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Here we go. The @asbmb.bsky.social (ASBMB) conference has started!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Congrats to all the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Graduate Student Award winners! This includes my MD/PhD student Kirill Miachin!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A great surprise to end the week. A grant proposal to study a devastating soft tissue sarcoma has been recommended for funding by the Department of Defense. This is a fantastic collaboration with Angie Hirbe's lab here at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congrats to Autumn Qiu, Qing Yu and Varun Gadkari for being named the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Research Award winners! The future of #TeamMassSpec looks bright, gotta wear 😎
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Have to brag a little about my F1, but my daughter Bella has won the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Undergraduate Student Award for her ion mobility research in Varun Gadkari's lab at the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congratulations to Renã Robinson and Jennifer Geddes-McAlister for being the recipients of the @asms.org Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Mentorship Awards, such incredible mentors and inspiration!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Parabéns Livia! So happy that Livia S. Eberlin has been awarded the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Biemann Medal!
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ASMS @asms.org · 10/04/2025
2025 asms.org Awards! Join us in congratulating the 2025 recipients. We look forward to recognizing them all at #ASMS2025 in Baltimore. Learn more: www.asms.org/about-asms-a...
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Had a fun outing with some of our BMB Dept admin staff at the Kitchen Conservatory, where they prepared a really delicious lunch while we all got a chance to catch up with each other. We truly have such wonderful hard working admin staff that keep our dept running!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My Lab surprised me before group meeting with a little celebration for being elected as a AAAS Fellow. Definitely lucky to have such great scientists, but even more incredible human beings in my lab.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our lab is being watched, these eyes are everywhere! 👀
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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congratulations to our department chair Ben Garcia on his selection as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow! He is being honored for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and its application in epigenetic research Congrats @garcialabms.bsky.social
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I had the pleasure of giving the ACS Analytical Chemistry (ANYL) division update to our membership at the ACS meeting last week. I hope this gave everyone a small taste of the many exciting and new initiatives going on in the division. The slides can be accessed here: wustl.box.com/s/68kmjf3xx7...
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ACS Spring 2025 ANYL Reception presentation slides March 2025.pptx | Powered by Box
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Had a great time at the ACS meeting this week. Exciting programming from the Division of Analytical Chemistry and Committee for Minority Affairs (CMA). Enjoyed the ACS Awards ceremony, CMA Luncheon, Committee Row, the ANYL division reception, meeting our undergrad Kolthoff award winners and more!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Congrats to Professor Purnendu Dasgupta for winning the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry!
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Honored to be elected into the prestigious class of AAAS Fellows. While my name goes into the record, this was only possible with the hard work and dedication of so many wonderful scientists that have been part of my lab over the last 17 years. 1/2 source.washu.edu/2025/03/seve...
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Seven WashU faculty elected to AAAS
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among the 471 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thrilled to recently celebrate the establishment of the Carl Frieden Distinguished Professorship in our BMB Dept. Thank you to Drs Nan Jiang and Gene Lay for their generous commitment to research and WashU. Congratulations to Carl on his incredible career and this amazing recognition in his honor.
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