Professor Garcia received his B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis and then went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia under Donald Hunt in 2005.  Ben then was an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with Professor Neil Kelleher.  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, and a member of the Quantitative and Computational Biology program at Princeton University where he has received a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator award.