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

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

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

2023

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

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

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)