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Biophysics Program. Knight Hennessy Fellow, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Fellow, ADVANCE Program fellow, Interact Fellow.

(UROP 2016 - 2018) Developed and multiparametrically optimized voltage sensing opsin-based molbiol tools through directed evolution. Acquired skills: cloning, neuro-hystology, cell culture, physical and chemical transformations, mouse and fly handling, dissection, perfusion, inuteral electroporation, basic electroengineering, motion correction, MATLAB, PyMOL, Snapgene. (SuperUROP 2018 - 2019) Developed theoretical proposal for chemical interface for Ultra-Sensitive Nanoelectronic Transistor as Biomimetic a Reporter in collaboration with Professor Deblina Sarkar, Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Research Group at Media Lab. (2019 - now) Collaborating with Debora Marks Lab at Harvard on bioinformatics and proteomics.Have been acknowledged in the following papers:- Kiryl D. Piatkevich et al. (2017) Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins Engineered from Bacterial Phytochromes in Neuroimaging. Biophysical Journal, Volume 113, Issue 10, Pages 2299-2309- Barykina N. V. et al. (2017) Green fluorescent genetically encoded calcium indicator based on calmodulin/M13-peptide from fungi. PLoS ONE 12(8)Side projects include the following:- Wheels of Poseidon- ARMSIS

I developed a model of chemical time-evolution of exoplanetary atmospheres in reaction to the space weather. Used >5000 chemical, photochemical and particle collision reactions, 300 species including isomers, isotopes, major quantum states and temperature dependencies of the reaction rates. I performed an analysis of the reaction network and perfected it by extrapolated reaction rate in the undefined temperature ranges. I programmed in Python, Fortran, and Javascript. The model helps to predict the terraforming scenarios, identifies the observable signatures of habitable exoplanets, and will be available open access in EMAC GSFC/SEEC and used for perfecting of construction of space telescopes for exoplanetary observations.I am the first woman from Armenia to intern at NASA.