Education
2001 - 2005: BSc in Biology, Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology , Faculty of Biology, YSU;
2005 - 2007: MSc in Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology , Faculty of Biology, YSU;
2007 - present: PhD student in Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology YSU.

Professional experience
2012 - present: Junior Researcher at the Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology , Faculty of Biology, YSU;
2011 - present: Lecture at the Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology , Faculty of Biology, YSU;
2008: Summer School at Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA;
2007 - 2012: Senior Laboratory Assistantat the Department of Microbiology, Plants and Microbes Biotechnology , Faculty of Biology, YSU;
2005 - 2006: Research at the Department of Pharmacology, Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia;
2003 - 2005: Research at Clinical Center "Armenicum", Yerevan, Armenia.

Academic courses
Microbiology and Virology (Laboratory Courses)

Scale of professional interests
Microbiology, Molecular biology, Microbial ecology and diversity, Microbial Biochemistry.

Participation in grant projects
Participant in ANSEF Research Grant, «Isolation and characterization of thermophilic carbohydrate degrading bacilli from Armenian geothermal hot and warm springs», Project Num.: NS-microbio 2493: 2011.

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English

Professional membership
Armenian Microbiological Society (FEMS Full Member)
Armenian Association of Biotechnologists
Armenian Association of Biochemists (FEBS Associative Member)

Awards received
Third prize at the Conference “Contribution of Young Scientists to Biotechnology”, Yerevan, Armenia: 2010,
Diploma for the best poster of the Second Balkan Conference on Biology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria: 2010,
Diploma for the best report of the Conference for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students and Young Scientists, Moscow State University after M. Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia: 2007.

arminemargaryan@ysu.am