Education

2003-2005:  Department  of  Bioinformatics,  University   of  Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Ø       Master of Science in Bioinformatics

2001-2003: Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia

Ø       Residency in Family Medicine

1995-2001: Faculty of Pediatrics, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia

Ø       Diploma with honour

1999-2000: Faculty of Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany

Professional  skills

• Programming Languages: Java, C++, C, Perl, R, bashscript
• OS: Linux (SuSE, RedHat), MS Windows
• GUI programming: Swing, AWT, MFC
• Databases: JDBC, ODBC, DAO, MS Access
• Client/server systems: JSP, JavaBeans, Applets, Winsock, ActiveX
• XML: SAX parsers
• Petri net models in systems biology

Work experience

Currently: Programmer, Accusoft AM, Yerevan, Armenia

2004-2005: Scientific assistant, Dpt. of Bioinformatics, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

2003: Assistant medical coordinator, Medecins sans Frontieres Belgium, Yerevan, Armenia

Projects

2004-2005: Master’s thesis “A web-based tool for modeling and analysis of metabolic and regulatory pathways”. The further development of the modeling tool Japet involved a Petri net modeling concept for regulatory networks, JSP-based web service, interface to the database PUBMED, SBML import/export, novel layout algorithms, Petri net model for regulatory networks, circle recognition etc. Available at: geocities.com/ablertus/Japet.html.

2004:  Course  paper  “Japet:  an  integrated  tool  for  recreation  of KEGG  data into hierarchical and Petri net analysis”, presented on the 5-th International Conference on Systems  Biology  in  Heidelberg.  A biological Petri net tool, including a model for metabolic networks, graphical editor with built-in layout methods, hierarchisation of the nets, equation parser,  interfaces  to the  database KEGG and program INA, relational Petri net database.

2001-2002:    Programs    in    C,    C++,    MFC:    crossword  generator, Lempel-Ziv compressor/decompressor,  TFTP  client/server  application, TCP/IP  chat, game “Sea Batlle”

References

Prof. Dr. Ina Koch, Dpt. of Bioinformatics, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin  

Languages

Fluent in Armenian, Russian, German, English

Ø       TOEFL score 280 (January 2005)

Research interests

Systems biology, modeling and alignment of biochemical networks, programming of bioinformatical tools and databases

Awards received

2003-2005: DAAD scholarship

1999-2000: Copernicus scholarship

1998: First place at the university olympiad in dermatovenerology

1994: First place at  the republican olympiad in chemistry

Interests and activities

Intellectual games, sport activities

Personal

Born in 1978

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