Curriculum Vitae
Marine Murtskhvaladze
E-mail: dna_lab@iliauni.edu.ge
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
NATIONALITY
January 19, 1978
Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgian
EDUCATION
1995-2001
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Zoology
2004-2005
Idaho University, Ecology and Conservation Genetics Laboratory,
USA
Invited research fellow
2008
ForschungsMuseum Alexander Koenig (Germany)
Invited researcher
2009
Idaho University, Ecology and Conservation Genetics Laboratory,
USA
Visited scholar
2007 –2012
Ilia State University
PhD
ACADEMIC DEGREE
PhD
LANGUAGES
Georgian:
English:
Russian:
PUBLICATIONS
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Native
Fluent
Good
Gabelaia, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., Murtskhvaladze, M.
2015.Phylogeography and morphological variation in a narrowly distributed Caucasian rock lizard, Darevskia mixta.Amphibia-Reptilia 36: 45-54
Tarkhnishvili, D., Gavashelishvili, A., Murtskhvaladze, M.,
Gabelaia, M., Tevzadze, G. 2014.Human Paternal Lineages,
Languages and Environment in the Caucasus.Human Biology
86: 113-130
Tarkhnishvili D., Murtskhvaladze M., Gavashelishvili A.
2013. Speciation in Caucasian lizards: climatic dissimilarity
of the habitats is more important than isolation time. Biological Journal of the LinneanSociety 109 (4): 876-892.
Mumladze L., Tarkhnishvili D., Murtskhvaladze M.
2013.Systematics and evolutionary history of large endemic
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snails from the Caucasus (Helix buchii, H. goderdziana).American Malacological Bulletin 31 (2): 225-234.
Murtskhvaladze M, Gurielidze Z, Kopaliani N, Tarkhnishvili D. 2012. Gene introgression between Gazella subguturrosa and G. marica: limitations of maternal inheritance analysis for species identification with conservation purposes. ActaTheriologica 57 (4): 383-386.
Khorozyan I, MaLKhaSyan A, Murtskhvaladze M. 2011.
The striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena (Hyaenidae, Carnivora)
rediscovered in Armenia, Folia Zool., 60 (3): 253–261.
Tarkhnishvili D, Gavashelishvili A, Avaliani A, Murtskhvaladze M, Mumladze L. 2010.Unisexual rock lizard might
be outcompeting its bisexual progenitors in the Caucasus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101, 447-460
Murtskhvaladze M, Gavashelishvili A, Tarkhnishvili D.
2010.Geographic and genetic boundaries of brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Caucasus. Molecular Ecology,
19, 1829-1841
Murtskhvaladze M, Tarkhnishvili D., 2006. Estimation of
Brown Bear Abundance and Population Structure in
Borjom_Kharagauli national Park with Molecular-Genetic
Methods. Proc. Georgian Acad. Sci., Biol. Ser B. Vol 4, No
4.
EXSPERIENCE
2013 –up to now
Associate Professor,
Faculty Arc and Sciences
Ilia State University, Georgia
2013 up to now
Scientist, Genome Centre,
Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research (CPHR)
2008 -2012
Assistant Professor,
Faculty Arc and Sciences
Ilia State University, Georgia
2007-2008
Research Associate,
Faculty of Faculty of Life Sciences
Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Georgia
2007
Manager of Biodiversity Program,
CENN
2001 – 2006
Research fellow,
Department of vertebrates
Institute of Paleobiology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
by L. Davitashvili
1998-2007
Assistant,
Conservation Program,
NACRES
PROJECTS
2013 –up to now
Genetic research coordinator
Ecology and evolution of avian influenza virus (AIV) in wild
birds in Georgia and the establishment of the population genetics structure of a host species - DTRA
2010-2012
Researcher
Biodiversity of East European and Siberian Large Mammals on the
Level of Genetic Variation of Populations – BIOGEAST (7th Framework program, Marie Curie Actions, People, International Exchange
Scheme)
2009
Project Coordinator,
Survey of taxonomy and population structure of Brown Bear (Ursus
arctos) in Georgia financed by IBA
2008
Project Coordinator,
Promotion of updated Georgian Red List, financed by CEPF/WWF
2006 -2008
Manager of molecular-genetic laboratory,
Study of Caucasus Biodiversity “Hot Spots” through modern molecular-genetic methods, financed by GRDF/GNSF
2007 -2009
Genetic research,
Does sexual reproduction widen ecological niche? Case study of two
bisexual rock lizards and their daughter unisexual taxa from the Lesser Caucasus financed by GNCF.
2007 -2008
Genetic research,
Endemic Species of Caucasus – Assessment of Conservation priorities, financed by AvH foundation
2007
Manager of biodiversity program,
Environmental - information campaign for sustainable development f
the Caucasus region, financed by CEPF/WWF
2004 -2006
Assistant, Conservation Program
Species and ecosystems: Brown Bear phase I, financed by BP/BTC
2004 -2005
Genetic research
Conservation and monitoring of Caucasus Black Grouse, financed by
BP/BTC
1999-2002
Assistant environmental education project coordinator,
Conservation of Arid and Semi arid ecosystem in Caucasus, financed
by UNDP/GEF
2002
Assistant to Project Coordinator
Desertification National Strategy and Action Plan