About
EDUCATION:
19 Dec. 2012 – 19 Oct 2016 PhD in Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Thesis: “Reconstruction of human Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland based on genetic data”
1 Sep. 2007 – 29 May 2012 BA (Hons) and MA in Bioengineering & Bioinformatics, Department of Medicine and Biology, Russian-Armenian University
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1 Dec 2016 – Present Researcher, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), National Academy of Sciences (NAS RA)
1 Sep 2019 – Present Lecturer, Practical Course on Population Genetics, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia
1 Oct 2012 – 1 Dec 2016 Junior researcher, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA
1 Dec 2011 – 1 Oct 2012 Senior assistant, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA
ACADEMIC VISITS AND TRAINING:
2017 Oct. – Present Visiting postdoc at the Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
2017 May EMBO Practical Course “Population Genomics: background and tools”, Napoli, Italy
2016 Oct. – 2017 Jan. Research visit at the L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences in the frame of the U-GENE
project, Wroclaw, Poland
2015 Apr. – Oct. Research as a visiting PhD student at the Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
2014 Oct. Practical Course “Next Generation Sequencing for Population Genetics and Experimental Evolution”, Vienna Graduate School of Population
Genetics, Vienna, Austria
2014 May – Jun. International Young Scientists School “Molecular and Cellular Bases of Host-Microbe Interactions: Genomics and Sequencing”, Yerevan, Armenia
2012 Jan. Trainee, Group of Human Genetic Adaptation, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation
2010 Oct. Trainee, Faculty of Bioengineering & Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
19 Dec. 2012 – 19 Oct 2016 PhD in Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Thesis: “Reconstruction of human Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland based on genetic data”
1 Sep. 2007 – 29 May 2012 BA (Hons) and MA in Bioengineering & Bioinformatics, Department of Medicine and Biology, Russian-Armenian University
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1 Dec 2016 – Present Researcher, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), National Academy of Sciences (NAS RA)
1 Sep 2019 – Present Lecturer, Practical Course on Population Genetics, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia
1 Oct 2012 – 1 Dec 2016 Junior researcher, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA
1 Dec 2011 – 1 Oct 2012 Senior assistant, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA
ACADEMIC VISITS AND TRAINING:
2017 Oct. – Present Visiting postdoc at the Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
2017 May EMBO Practical Course “Population Genomics: background and tools”, Napoli, Italy
2016 Oct. – 2017 Jan. Research visit at the L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences in the frame of the U-GENE
project, Wroclaw, Poland
2015 Apr. – Oct. Research as a visiting PhD student at the Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
2014 Oct. Practical Course “Next Generation Sequencing for Population Genetics and Experimental Evolution”, Vienna Graduate School of Population
Genetics, Vienna, Austria
2014 May – Jun. International Young Scientists School “Molecular and Cellular Bases of Host-Microbe Interactions: Genomics and Sequencing”, Yerevan, Armenia
2012 Jan. Trainee, Group of Human Genetic Adaptation, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation
2010 Oct. Trainee, Faculty of Bioengineering & Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
List of publications
- 1. Maisano Delser P, Jones ER, Hovhannisyan A, Cassidy L, Pinhasi R, & Manica A. (2021). A curated dataset of modern and ancient high-coverage shotgun human genomes. Scientific Data, 8(1), 1-6
- 2. Sahakyan H, Margaryan A, Saag L, Karmin M, Flores R, Haber M, Kushniarevich A, Khachatryan Z, Bahmanimehr A, Parik J, Karafet T, Yunusbayev B, Reisberg T, Solnik A, Metspalu E, Hovhannisyan A, … & Villems R. (2021) Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267. Scientific reports. 11(1):1-4.
- 3. Derenko M, Denisova G, Malyarchuk B, Hovhannisyan A, Khachatryan Z, Hrechdakian P, ... & Yepiskoposyan L. (2019). Insights into matrilineal genetic structure, differentiation and ancestry of Armenians based on complete mitogenome data. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 1547-1559.
- 4. Nikoghosyan M, Hakobyan S, Hovhannisyan A, Loeffler-Wirth H, Binder H, & Arakelyan A. (2019). Population levels assessment of the distribution of disease associated variants with emphasis on Armenians-a machine learning approach. Frontiers in genetics, 10, 394.
- 5. Balanovsky O, Chukhryaeva M, Zaporozhchenko V, Urasin V, Zhabagin M, Hovhannisyan A, ... & Pocheshkhova E. (2017). Genetic differentiation between upland and lowland populations shapes the Y-chromosomal landscape of West Asia. Human genetics, 136(4), 437-450.
- 6. Yepiskoposyan L, Hovhannisyan A, Khachatryan Z. (2016) Genetic structure of the Armenian population. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 64(1), 113-116.
- 7. Hovhannisyan A, Khachatryan Z, Haber M, Hrechdakian P, Karafet T, Zalloua P, Yepiskoposyan L. (2014) Different waves and directions of Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland. Investigative genetics, 5(1): 15.