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119
Citations
57473
World Ranking
266
National Ranking
156

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Benjamin A. Garcia is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant body of work in Medicine. Within these broad disciplines, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Oncology, Genetics, and Physiology.

The scientist's research topics focus notably on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing, Cancer-related gene regulation, Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications, and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Benjamin A. Garcia has contributed repeatedly to several publication venues. Frequent journals for their publications include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Proteome Research, Nature Communications, Analytical Chemistry, and Nature.

Co-authorship is an important aspect of their work. They have collaborated extensively with researchers such as Natarajan V. Bhanu, Simone Sidoli, Francisca N. de Luna Vitorino, Hee Jong Kim, and Shelley L. Berger.

Recent publications by Benjamin A. Garcia include:

  • Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging, 2023, Cell
  • SIRT1 is downregulated by autophagy in senescence and ageing, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • An integrated multi-omics approach identifies epigenetic alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Reproductive tract extracellular vesicles are sufficient to transmit intergenerational stress and program neurodevelopment, 2020, Nature Communications

Benjamin A. Garcia has also been recognized for their contributions by being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

    Ayuko Hoshino;Bruno Costa-Silva;Tang-Long Shen;Goncalo Rodrigues

  • Melanoma exosomes educate bone marrow progenitor cells toward a pro-metastatic phenotype through MET

    Héctor Peinado;Maša Alečković;Simon Lavotshkin;Irina Matei

  • Inhibition of PRC2 Activity by a Gain-of-Function H3 Mutation Found in Pediatric Glioblastoma

    Peter W. Lewis;Manuel M. Müller;Matthew S. Koletsky;Francisco Cordero

  • Cytoplasmic chromatin triggers inflammation in senescence and cancer

    Zhixun Dou;Kanad Ghosh;Maria Grazia Vizioli;Jiajun Zhu

  • Regulation of HP1–chromatin binding by histone H3 methylation and phosphorylation

    Wolfgang Fischle;Boo Shan Tseng;Holger L. Dormann;Beatrix M. Ueberheide

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers

    Ayuko Hoshino;Ayuko Hoshino;Han Sang Kim;Han Sang Kim;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Kofi Ennu Gyan

  • How many human proteoforms are there

    Ruedi Aebersold;Jeffrey N. Agar;I. Jonathan Amster;Mark S. Baker

  • Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy.

    Michael Klichinsky;Marco Ruella;Olga Shestova;Xueqing Maggie Lu

  • Direct targeting of Sec23a by miR-200s influences cancer cell secretome and promotes metastatic colonization

    Manav Korpal;Brian J Ell;Francesca M Buffa;Toni Ibrahim

  • SIRT7 links H3K18 deacetylation to maintenance of oncogenic transformation

    Matthew F. Barber;Eriko Michishita-Kioi;Eriko Michishita-Kioi;Eriko Michishita-Kioi;Yuanxin Xi;Luisa Tasselli;Luisa Tasselli

  • A chemical probe selectively inhibits G9a and GLP methyltransferase activity in cells

    Masoud Vedadi;Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy;Feng Liu;Sylvie Rival-Gervier

  • Akt-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming Regulates Tumor Cell Histone Acetylation

    Joyce V. Lee;Alessandro Carrer;Supriya Shah;Nathaniel W. Snyder

  • NSD2 Links Dimethylation of Histone H3 at Lysine 36 to Oncogenic Programming

    Alex J. Kuo;Peggie Cheung;Kaifu Chen;Barry M. Zee

  • Asymmetrically Modified Nucleosomes

    Philipp Voigt;Gary LeRoy;William J. Drury;Barry M. Zee

  • Novel linear quadrupole ion trap/FT mass spectrometer: performance characterization and use in the comparative analysis of histone H3 post-translational modifications.

    John E. P. Syka;Jarrod A. Marto;Dina L. Bai;Stevan Horning

  • The histone variant macroH2A suppresses melanoma progression through regulation of CDK8

    Avnish Kapoor;Matthew S. Goldberg;Lara K. Cumberland;Kajan Ratnakumar

  • Chemical derivatization of histones for facilitated analysis by mass spectrometry

    Benjamin A Garcia;Sahana Mollah;Sahana Mollah;Beatrix M Ueberheide;Beatrix M Ueberheide;Scott A Busby;Scott A Busby

  • The histone mark H3K36me2 recruits DNMT3A and shapes the intergenic DNA methylation landscape

    Daniel N. Weinberg;Simon Papillon-Cavanagh;Haifen Chen;Yuan Yue

  • SnapShot: histone modifications

    He Huang;Benjamin R. Sabari;Benjamin A. Garcia;C. David Allis

  • Epigenomic Analysis of Multi-lineage Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Benjamin Garcia;Wei Xie;Matt Schultz;Ryan Lister

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Sidoli
Simone Sidoli Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Gary LeRoy
Gary LeRoy New York University
C. David Allis
C. David Allis Rockefeller University
Donald F. Hunt
Donald F. Hunt University of Virginia
Jeffrey Shabanowitz
Jeffrey Shabanowitz University of Virginia
Shelley L. Berger
Shelley L. Berger University of Pennsylvania
Matthew D. Weitzman
Matthew D. Weitzman Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Nada Jabado
Nada Jabado McGill University
Chao Lu
Chao Lu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yibin Kang
Yibin Kang Princeton University

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