Resume

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

Research Scientist

• Characterized the electrophysiological properties of mouse neurons after ion concentration polarization treatment using cell-attached patch-clamp recordings.

Student Research Assistant

• Research on major depressive disorder and sleep in mouse models: stereotaxic surgery, perfusion, behavioral assays, immunohistochemistry, and neural recordings.
• End-to-end scRNA-seq analysis with Scanpy and Seurat, including an RNA velocity workflow for circadian datasets.

Student Research Assistant

• Genetic diversity and fig domestication analysis using STRUCTURE, ADZE, GenoDive, TreeMix, and ABC.

Khadari, Kakenov, et al. · Horticulture Research

Narain, Šušić, Kakenov, et al. · bioRxiv preprint

Team award · aptamer-based biosensor for early Alzheimer's disease detection

Molecular and Cellular Cognition Conference

Founder · weeklong program helping high school students facing financial barriers prepare for international university admission

Founder · platform where young researchers publish their work and connect with mentors

Founder · neuroscience-informed EdTech for students with disabilities; AED 25,000 pre-seed funding (Sandooq Al Watan)

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

Python (Scanpy), R (Seurat), STRUCTURE, ADZE, GenoDive, TreeMix, ABC, QGIS, Adobe Creative Cloud