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Madina Akan works as research assistant in Department of Biosensors and Bioinstrument at Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System. She has studied in Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology program at Fatih University (Istanbul, Turkey). She is involved in selection and characterization of aptamers against ECPKA proteins.
Madina Akan works as research assistant in Department of Biosensors and Bioinstrument at Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System. She has studied in Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology program at Fatih University (Istanbul, Turkey). She is involved in selection and characterization of aptamers against ECPKA proteins.
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Revision as of 04:09, 26 September 2013

NU_Kazakhstan



Our Team


Our team consists of five enthusiastic undergraduate students, who manifest genuine interest in the sphere of Synthetic Biology. We became familiar with IGEM competition in summer 2012 and asked our faculty to organize special Synthetic Biology course in order to learn more about this exciting sphere of biology. Fortunately, our professors also became interested in this competition and were glad to organize two wonderful courses of Synthetic Biology. These courses gave us a great background in many different topics, but the most interesting topic for us was the application of aptamers in diagnosis, treatment and research. Then, in April 2013 we asked Dr. Damira, our mentor, who has been working with aptamers in our University research center, to join her team in lab.

Undergraduates
Alexandr Pak
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Antonina Malozemova
"Decide yourself. Do what makes you happy. We all live one time."

Tonya is cool and bright )) Music is my life, i write poems and novels. I am hippie inside. My dream is to play on the same stage with Breaking Benjamin.

Luiza Niyazmetova
"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it"

Luiza is a Junior student at Nazarbayev University majoring in Biological Sciences. She is sincerely excited about being a part of such big competition as IGEM, that is why she is trying to contribute as much as possible in this project. In the future, Luiza plans to become a very good physician-scientist.

Mukhtar Sadykov
"It's going on"

Mukhtar is a sophomore at Nazarbayev University studying Biological Sciences. This is his first year participating in the iGEM competition. He hopes to pursue an M.D/Ph.D after graduation.

Zeinaf Muradova
"Never give up!"

Zeinaf is 3rd year undergraduate students, majoring in Biomedical Sciences. She is planning to take MD and work on the field of Maternal and Childhood Health Care. She sees herself as a physician-scientist, working on improving this field in Kazakhstan. First time in IGEM, and she really enjoys it!

Advisors
Dr. Damira Kanayeva

Dr. Damira Kanayeva currently is the Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University and Senior Research Scientist at Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System, Nazarbayev University. She was one of those who organized Synthetic Biology course for us, and guided our team during the whole project.
Dr. Kenneth Alibek

Professor Kenneth Alibek is currently the CEO of the National Medical Holding and Vice Dean for Research of the School of Science and Technology at Nazarbayev University. Dr. Ken established Synthetic Biology course for us, and he also supported all our ideas for IGEM.
Acknowledgements
Samal Zhussupbekova

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Marzhan Sypabekova

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Madina Akan

Madina Akan works as research assistant in Department of Biosensors and Bioinstrument at Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System. She has studied in Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology program at Fatih University (Istanbul, Turkey). She is involved in selection and characterization of aptamers against ECPKA proteins. Her credo is: "I believe that tomorrow is another day and I think that you have to be better than you ever thought you could be."
Aliya Bekmurzayeva

Aliya Bekmurzayeva works as a junior researcher in Department of Biosensors and Bioinstruments at Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System. She has studied in Master of Biotechnology program at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Bachelor of Ecology program in Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Astana, Kazakhstan). She is involved in selection and characterization of aptamers for diagnosis of tuberculosis and breast cancer.
Aigerim Soltabayeva

Aigerim helped our team with laboratory facilities and reagents. She is very smart geneticist, so she also helped us in our gene construction. Now, Aigerim have won a grant for the PhD program of the University Ben-Gurion (Israel, Sede Boqer). We are all proud of her. Her life credo is: "Fear of the possibility of mistakes should not deter us from seeking the truth".
Nargis Karatayeva

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