Education
- California Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Training, 1997-2000, Chemical Physics
- Lund University, Lund Sweden, Ph.D, 1996, Chemical Dynamics
- Vilnius University, Vilnius Lithuania, M.S., 1988, Physics
Experience
- 2008 – Present Associate Professor, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 2004 – 2008 Assistant Professor, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 2001 – 2004 Senior Staff Scientist Genoptix, Inc.San Diego, CA
- 2000 – 2001 Research Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Physics,Lund University, Sweden
- 1997 – 2000 Postdoctoral Scholar, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics and Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
- 1994 – 1996 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Chemical Physics Lund University, Sweden
- 1993 – 1994 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Physical Chemistry Umeå University, Sweden
- 1988 – 1992 Research Assistant Institute of Physics – Academy of Sciences Vilnius, Lithuania
- 1986 – 1988 Research Assistant Physics Department – Vilnius University Vilnius, Lithuania
Honors and Memberships
- 2002 – Present American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1999 Four year research grant from Swedish Natural Science Research Council
- 1999 Wilhelm Faxes prize awarded by Lund University.
- 1998 – Present American Chemical Society
- 1998 Invitation to chair a session on the chemical reaction dynamics in condensed phase in XIII Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Pasadena, CA.
- 1997 Prize for best Ph.D. thesis in chemistry in Sweden awarded jointly by The Swedish Chemical Society (Kemistsamfundet) and The Swedish Association of Scientists (Sveriges Naturvetareförbund)
- 1996 A three year postdoctoral fellowship from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
Selected Publications
Effect of Membrane tension on the electric field and dipole potential of lipid bilayer membreane
Dora Toledo Warshaviak, Michael J. Muellner and Mirianas Chachisvilis
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, In Press, June 2011
Apparent PKA Activity Responds to Intermittent Hypoxia in Bone Cells: A Redox Pathway?
Zhang YL, Tavakoli H, Chachisvilis M.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. July 2010
Mechanical stimulus alters conformation of type 1 parathyroid hormone receptor in bone cells
Yan-Liang Zhang, John A Frangos & Mirianas Chachisvilis
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology. 2009 June
Mechanotransduction by membrane mediated activation of G protein coupled receptors and G proteins
Y Zhang, JA Frangos and Chachisvilis, M
Cellular Mechanotransduction, eds M. Mofrad and R. Kamm, Cambridge University Press, 2009
G protein-coupled receptors sense fluid shear stress in endothelial cells
Mirianas Chachisvilis, Yan-Liang Zhang & John A Frangos
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Oct
Laurdan fluorescence senses mechanical strain in the lipid bilayer membrane
Yan-Liang Zhang, John A Frangos & Mirianas Chachisvilis
Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 2006 Sep
M. Chachisvilis, A.H. Zewail
J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999
M. Chachisvilis, T. Fiebig, A. Douhal, A.H. Zewail
J. Phys. Chem. A, 1998
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