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Assistant Professor at AUA | Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) | Biophysics | Machine Learning
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Assistant Professor
Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science and Engineering
PAB 334W

CSE 112 Mathematical Thinking
Office Hours: By Appointment
Room: PAB 334W

Center for Data-Driven Biosciences

Projects:

"Probing the origin of prion protein misfolding via reconstruction of ancestral
proteins"

"Model selection for single-molecule force spectroscopy data analysis"

"Models for analyzing single-molecule force spectroscopy data for the case of native state heterogeneity"

My view: (Please briefly describe your view on the three concepts below)

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.” Unknown Author
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Short Bio:

Education:

ETH Zürich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Doctor of Sciences 2016

TU Dresden, Biotechnology Center
Master of Science 2011

Yerevan State University, Faculty of Physics
Bachelor of Physics 2009

Employment:

American University of Armenia, Akian College of Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor 2022 – present

University of Alberta, Department of Physics
Postdoctoral Fellow 2016 – 2022

ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Research Assistant 2012 – 2016

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Student Assistant 2011

Publications:

R. Petrosyan, A. Narayan, and M. T. Woodside
“Single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein folding”
J. Mol. Biol. (2021) 433 (20), 167207.

R. Petrosyan, S. Patra, N. Rezajooei, C. Garen, and M.T. Woodside*
“Unfolded and intermediate states of PrP play a key role in the mechanism of action of an antiprion chaperone”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2021) 118 (9), e2010213118.

R. Petrosyan*
“Unfolding force definition and the unified model for the mean unfolding force dependence on the loading rate”
J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. (2020) (3), 033201.

D.A.N. Foster, R. Petrosyan, A.G.T. Pyo, A. Hoffmann, F. Wang, and M.T. Woodside*
“Probing position-dependent diffusion in folding reactions using single-molecule force spectroscopy”
Biophys. J. (2018) 114 (7), 1657-1666.

R. Petrosyan*
“Improved approximations for some polymer extension models”
Rheol. Acta (2017) 56 (1), 21-26.

R. Petrosyan, C.A. Bippes, S. Walheim, D. Harder, D. Fotiadis, T. Schimmel, D. Alsteens, and D.J. Müller*
“Single-molecule force spectroscopy of membrane proteins from membranes freely spanning across nanoscopic pores”
Nano Lett. (2015) 15 (5), 3624-3633.

E.P. Petrov*, R. Petrosyan, and P. Schwille
“Translational and rotational diffusion of micrometer-sized solid domains in lipid membranes”
Soft Matter (2012) 8 (29), 7552-7555.