Welome to ABI Research School!
ABI Research School provides an opportunity for students to learn bioinformatics by engaging in research projects supervised by researchers at ABI or abroad. The projects may serve as an entry to a junior researcher’s position, or as a capstone for a bachelor’s or master’s thesis, and may eventually lead to a publication.
Ongoing Supervisions
As a part of ABI Research School, students find their supervisors to conduct projects.
Mentor & Mentee Program
The Mentor & Mentee program at ABI supports life science Postdoctoral fellows around the world…
Projects Offered
Find out what topics you may get engaged in as a student.
Ongoing projects
At ABI Research School, students can engage in research projects supervised by scientists from Armenia and abroad. The remote supervisions are supported through mentors at ABI.
Finding telomere-related cancer biomarkers in cell free DNA
Supervisor: Dr. Lilit Nersisyan, ABI
Student: Narek Shamamyan, BSc in Computer Science from AUA
Molecular mechanisms of aging
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Binder, Leipzig University, Germany & ABI
Student: Vardan Saroyan, Resident at YSMU
Analysis of SARS-CoV Variants
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Binder, Leipzig University, Germany & ABI
Student: Hripsime Gasoyan, BSc in Applied Math from YSU
Oncogenic pathway alterations across large scale cancer studies
Supervisor: Anna Hakobyan, PhD student at Max Perutz Labs, Austria
Student: Nelly Vardazaryan, MSc student in Molecular and Cell Biology at ISEC NAS RA
Developmental neuroscience and single cell transcriptomics
Supervisor: Dr. Araks Martirosyan, KU Leuven, Belgium
Student: Arabo Apresyan, Resident at YSMU
Tissue specificity of transcriptional programs in immune cells
Supervisor: Lilit Grigoryan, PhD student at Stanford University, USA
Mentor: Lilit Nersisyan, ABI
Student: Nerses Shahbazyan, Student at YSMU
Signaling pathways states in health and disease with integrative genomics
Supervisor: Dr. Arsen Arakelyan (ABI), Siras Hakobyan, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Molecular Biology NAS RA
Student: Mher Kurghinyan, Student at YSMU
Evaluation of genetic risk factors for complex human disorders
Supervisor: Dr. Arsen Arakelyan (ABI), Siras Hakobyan (Ph.D. student and ABI mentor), Maria Nikoghosyan (Ph.D. student at Institute of Molecular Biology NAS RA and ABI mentor)
Student: Anush Baloyan, Data Science BSc at AUA
D3.JS for a gene-editing application
Supervisors: Harutyun Minasyan (D3.js) and Lilit Nersisyan (Bioinformatics)
Backend: Tatevik Jalatyan (R & bash)
Understanding vulnerability in ALS using multi-omics
The project focuses on investigating disease mechanisms and novel therapeutic approaches for devastating neurological disorders including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common dementia.
Mentor & Mentee Program
The Mentor & Mentee program at ABI supports life science Postdoctoral fellows around the world to get mentorship for data analysis aspects of their research at the same time mentoring an ABI student and engaging them in their research.
ABI provides a supervision to the student to gain the skills needed for the project proposed by the fellow.
The student shares her/his knowledge and skills with the postdoc, while the postdoc shares the details of their study.
Design and analysis of AAV vectors for gene editing applications
Life Science Postdoc
Dr. Erik Aznauryan, Church Lab, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA
Bioinformatics Student
Tatevik Jalatyan, Data Science BSc at AUA
Computational analysis of telomere sequences in cell-free DNA
Life Science Postdoc
Jakub Wudarski, PhD, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at National Institute for Basic Biology Japan
Bioinformatics Supervisor
Lilit Nersisyan, PhD, Director at ABI, researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Projects Offered
M&M: Computational analysis of telomere sequences in cell-free DNA
Life Science Postdoc
Jakub Wudarski, PhD, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at National Institute for Basic Biology Japan
Bioinformatics Supervisor
Lilit Nersisyan, PhD, Director at ABI, researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
D3.JS for a gene-editing application
Supervisors: Harutyun Minasyan (D3.js) and Lilit Nersisyan (Bioinformatics)
Backend: Tatevik Jalatyan (R & bash)
Understanding vulnerability in ALS using multi-omics
The project focuses on investigating disease mechanisms and novel therapeutic approaches for devastating neurological disorders including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common dementia.