Senior Research Scientist
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
David Garcia is synthetic biologist and metabolic engineer currently working in the Biochemistry branch at DEVCOM CBC. Prior to arriving at CBC he was a postdoc at Caltech in the Murray lab developing cell-free biological circuitry. He earned his doctorate in Mitchel J Doktycz’s laboratory at The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While at Oak Ridge his thesis work was focused on developing cell-free systems optimized for cell-free metabolic engineering and protein production. His current work is focused on the use of high-throughput methodologies to scale the production of cell-free biological sensors and cell-free bioproduction.