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/...

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

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.

The incomparable @garcialabms.bsky.social Mr. President of @us-hupo.org teaching us all to be Benough.

@garcialabms.bsky.social WOW! Ben -President of USHUPO! So creative & impressive! #USHUPO2026

Meet Benjamin Garcia (Ben Garcia), editor-in-chief of ASBMB’s new journal, IBMB! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-... #ASBMBJournals

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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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-...

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

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...

Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards

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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!

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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Last week, Washington University made the perhaps questionable decision to award me tenure.

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

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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#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

#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

Top reviewers at ASBMB journals

Editors recognize the heavy-lifters and rising stars during Peer Review Week.

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The best lab group ever!

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.

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...

Breaking Down Barriers for Hispanic/Latinx Scientists: Dr. Benjamin Garcia

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US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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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Don't miss Garcia Lab oral and poster presentations at the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference. See everyone in Baltimore!

The undergraduate poster session at #ASMS2025 is the place to be tonight.

🍻 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

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

Don't miss Garcia Lab oral and poster presentations at the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference. See everyone in Baltimore!

✈️ 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

That’s my daughter! 🤩

UMN Department of Chemistry@umnchemistry.bsky.social · last yr.

Prof. Varun Gadkari and undergraduate Arabella Garcia have both recently earned awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry! 🌟 Congratulations, Varun and Bella! #DriventoDiscover #UMNProud cse.umn.edu/chem/news/20...

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

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

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

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.