Two collaborative grants have been awarded funding. Our internal Penn ITMAT grant with Doug Wallace (CHOP) to study epigenetic effects of mitochondrial dysfunction, and an NIH R21 grant with Chris Pierce (Penn) to investigate cocaine addiction and the epigenome. Congrats all around!
Peder has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship on the NCI-funded T32 Immunobiology of normal and neoplastic lymphocytes training grant. Congrats!
The Garcia Lab comes back from a fantastic ASMS Conference in San Antonio. We had poster presentations from Mariel, Johayra, Simone, Bhanu, Sam, Zuo-Fei, XJ, Kasia and Amber. Kelly and Ben also gave talks in the protein PTMs and stable isotope labeling sessions.
Simone’s work on quantification of phosphopeptide isomers using data independent acquisition MS is published in Molecular BioSystems, while Xiaoshi’s collaborative work with the Berger and Reinberg lab’s is published in Epigenetics and Chromatin, and Nature, respectively.
Dylan is awarded a Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics training program graduate fellowship. Congrats!
The Garcia Lab welcomes incoming BMB graduate student Yekaterina Kori to the group for a summer rotation.
Ben speaks at Wallingford Elementary School about chemicals and how they affect our lives.
Amber has passed her 2nd year prelim exam, congratulations!
Mariel is awarded an NIH Research Supplement to promote diversity in health-related research to support her PhD studies, congrats!
Graduate student Laura Agosto (BMB) joins the lab (joint student with Kristen Lynch). Welcome to the group!
Amber has been awarded an Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) graduate fellowship in pediatric cancer research, congrats!