Asya Martirosyan

Armenia
LGSA Member

Dissecting the UV-B effect on adaptive responses through changes in mitochondrial homeostasis

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU): Faculty of Biological Sciences
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI): Ermolaeva Research Group

First Supervisor:

Maria Ermolaeva (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI))

Co – Supervisor(s):

Zhao-Qi Wang (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI))

Doctoral Disputation:

2023

Publications 2023:

  • Dissecting the UV-B effect on adaptive responses through changes in mitochondrial homeostasis
    Martirosyan A
    Dissertation 2023, Jena, Germany
  • Publications 2020:

    • Loss of metabolic plasticity underlies metformin toxicity in aged Caenorhabditis elegans.
      Espada* L, Dakhovnik* A, Chaudhari* P, Martirosyan A, Miek L, Poliezhaieva T, Schaub Y, Nair A, Döring N, Rahnis N, Werz O, Koeberle A, Kirkpatrick J, Ori A, Ermolaeva MA
      Nat Metab 2020, 2(11), 1316-31 * equal contribution

Scientific CV

Education/Degrees:               
09/2013-08/2016       

Master Degree in Evolutionary Biology (Erasmus Mundus Master program in Evolutionary Biology (MEME), joined degree from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Uppsala University)

 

Research Positions:               
09/2016 - 08/2017       

Research Associate at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oeiras, Portugal (Project - The role of telomeres in immune senescence, supervisor - Dr Miguel Godinho Ferreira)

 

03/2016-09/2016       

Master project - Leibniz Institute on Ageing – Fritz Lipmann Institute Jena, Germany (Project - Using nematode C. elegans to study immune senescence and inflammatory stress, supervisor – Dr Maria Ermolaeva)

 

10/2014-03/2015       Master project - Max Planck institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany (Project-Characterization of immunological diversity changes during aging in the short-lived African turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri, supervisor - Dr Dario Valenzano)