Lab members
If you are interested in joining our group, contact us at ojulien at ualberta.ca
Henry Wang, MSc (2023-2025)
Erik Gomez, PhD (2018-2025)
Shu (Lucy) Luo, PhD (2018-2025)
Bridgette Hartley, PhD (2018-2024)
Eman Moussa, MSc (2020-2023)
Luam Araya, MSc (2018-2021)
Richard Long (undergraduate student, 2024-25)
Noelle Reyes (undergraduate student, 2024-25)
Justin Zabos (undergraduate student, 2024-25)
Yifan Xian (undergraduate student, 2023-24)
Aziza Abdurakhmanova (undergraduate student, 2023-24)
Tony He (undergraduate student, 2023-24)
Jacy Hingley (undergraduate student, 2023)
Kevin Zhan (undergraduate student, 2022-23)
Jainilkumar Patel (undergraduate student, 2023-2025)
James Shi (undergraduate student, 2022)
Henry Wang, (undergraduate student, 2020-2023)
Zeyad Elsalhy (undergraduate student, 2019-2021)
Brett Wickware (undergraduate student, 2018-2020)
Longxiang Wang (undergraduate student, 2018-2021)
Luam Araya, (undergraduate student, 2018)
Arbab Ul Haq (Research Assistant, 2021-2024)
Kausar Saboohi (Research Assistant, 2017)
Peter Holmes (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2018)
Current Graduate Students
Richard Long
B.Sc. University of Alberta
Interests: Reading, game development, and badminton
Jainilkumar Patel
B.Sc. University of Alberta
Interests: Snowboarding, board games, 3D printing
Irshad Sayed
B.Sc. University of Alberta
Interests: Graphic design
Kolden van Baar
B.Sc. University of Victoria
Interests: Watching movies, board games, travelling
Zhixin Zhou
B.Sc. Hubei University of Technology, China
Interests: Music and reading books
Undergraduate Students
Hannah Esguerra
Jakub Fiala
Principal Investigator
Olivier Julien obtained his B.Sc. in biochemistry from Laval University, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. under the mentorship of Prof. Brian Sykes at the University of Alberta.
After pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) with Prof. Jim Wells, he joined the Department of Biochemistry at the UofA in 2017.
We encourage underrepresented groups in academia - visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression - to apply to our team or collaborate with us. The UofA offers several support and ressources for students, such as The Landing program