The Team

Rémi Buisson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, UCI
2013-2018: Research Fellow at MGH Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School
2009-2012: Ph.D. degree, Laval University (Canada)
2003-2008: B.Sc. & M.Sc degrees, University Claude Bernard Lyon I ( France)

Casey Johnson, M.Sc.
Lab Manager

Elodie Bournique, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
2015-2019: Ph.D. degree, Toulouse University, France
(Jean-Sébastien Hoffmann’s lab)
2012-2015: B.Sc. & M.Sc degrees Toulouse University, France

Pedro Ortega, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2021: Ph.D. degree, University of Seville, Spain
(Andrés Aguilera’s lab)
2011-2015: B.Sc. & M.Sc degrees, University of Seville, Spain

Sunwoo Oh
Graduate student
2019: B.Sc. University of California, Irvine

Lavanya Manjunath
Graduate student
2021: M.Sc. in Biotechnology, UCI

Ambrocio Sanchez
Graduate student
2021: B.Sc. University of California, Irvine

Gisselle Santiago
Graduate student
2023: B.Sc. University of California, San Diego

Mankirat Pandher
Master student in Biotechnology, School of Biological Science, UCI

Katrina Yan
Undergraduate student, School of Biological Science, UCI

Kim Ha
Undergraduate student, School of Biological Science, UCI

Buisson’s Lab Alumni

Brian Hanst (lab technician, 2019), now in medical school at UCI

Kevin Aguirre (undergraduate student, 2018-2020) is now in graduate school at Stanford

Shino Park (undergraduate student, 2018-2020) is now in dental school at USC

Landon Metzen, M.Sc. (Master student in Biotechnology, 2019-2020), now in a biotech company

Pégah Jalili, Ph.D (postdoctoral fellow, 2019-2020)

Travis Korenaga, M.D. (Clinical fellow, 2020-2021)

Danae Bowen (lab manager, 2018-2020), now in medical school at UC Riverside

Ian Ward (undergraduate student, 2020-2021), now at Zymo Research

Alexandrea Becker  (undergraduate student, 2020-2021)

Isaiah Angel Gomez (undergraduate student, 2020-2021), now in dental school at USC

Daniel Mousa (undergraduate student, 2021-2024)

Sunwoo Oh (graduate student, 2020-2024)

Junyi Li (undergraduate student, 2022-2025), is now in graduate school at Wash U

Dana Thanh-Ngoc Duon (undergraduate student, 2023-2025)