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Appointments
2007-present Associate Professor
2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University
1997-1998 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, USA
1995-1997 Researcher. Janssen Research Foundation, Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Beerse, Belgium
1993-1995 Microbial geneticist. Dental Division, Unilever Research Port Sunlight Laboratory UK.
1990-1993 Researcher. Department of Genetics, Center for Biological Sciences, University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands
1990 Senior researcher, Center of Bioengineering, Institute of Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Moscow, USSR
1989-1990 Senior researcher, Head of the Group. Research Center of Molecular Diagnostics of the USSR Ministry of Health. Moscow, USSR
1988-1989 Junior researcher. Research Center of Molecular Diagnostics of the USSR Ministry of Health. Moscow, USSR
1985-1987 Junior researcher. All-Union Research Institute of Applied Microbiology of the Ministry of Medical and Microbiological Industry of the USSR. Obolensk, Moscow region, USSR
1982-1984 PhD student at the VNIIgenetika. Moscow, USSR
1976-1981 University education, part time work: Laboratory assistant, Laboratory of Pseudomonas Genetics, Institute of Experimental Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
1975-1976 Laboratory assistant. Central Laboratory, The Charentsavan Experimental Microbiological Plant "Lysine". Charentsavan, Republic of Armenia