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.
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.
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!
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".
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