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Sanzhar Kakenov

Education

New York University Abu Dhabi

May 2025 · Abu Dhabi, UAE

B.Sc. in Biology — Brain & Cognitive Science specialization

Selected experience

Chaudhury Laboratory

Oct 2022 – present · Abu Dhabi, UAE

Research Assistant

  • Research on major depressive disorders and sleep; mouse-model neurobiology (stereotaxic surgery, perfusions, IHC, behavioural assays, electrode recordings).
  • scRNA-seq analysis with Seurat (R) and Scanpy (Python), including RNA velocity.

Cornille Laboratory

Nov 2024 – May 2025 · Abu Dhabi, UAE

Student Assistant

  • Population genomics of fig-tree domestication using STRUCTURE, ADZE, GenoDive, ABC, TreeMix.

Highlights

iGEM 2022 — Gold Medal

2022 · Abu Dhabi / Paris

Aptamer-based biosensor for early Alzheimer's detection

ALANT — Founder

2023 – 2025

Neuroscience-based EdTech for students with disabilities; 25,000 AED pre-seed grant (Sandooq al Watan)

Languages & skills

Languages

Kazakh (native), Russian (native), English (advanced), Turkish (intermediate)

Technical

Python, R, QGIS, Adobe Creative Cloud, STRUCTURE, ADZE, ABC, GenoDive