Jasmine Garcia

Jasmine grew up in San José, California and graduated from San José State University with a bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and a minor in Chemistry. While there, she worked in Dr. Brandon White’s lab and investigated the therapeutic mechanisms of bioactive polyphenols during breast cancer pathogenesis. Additionally, she joined Dr. Kevin Wang’s lab at Stanford to study the self-renewal properties of honeybee Royalactin. After graduating, Jasmine worked as a technician in Dr. Carolyn Lee’s lab at Stanford to identify novel genetic regulators of high-risk non-melanoma skin cancer. Now a graduate student passionate about basic cancer research, Jasmine has joined Dr. Amy Lee’s lab to investigate translation control in cancer. There she studies how metabolic reprogramming regulates mRNA cap structures to control gene expression and cellular behaviors.