assem-id-pic
Assem Duisembekova
Position:
Instructor
Office Phone:
70 (62 28)
E-mail:
aduisembekova@nu.edu.kz
Website:
CV:
Download CV

Research Interest

Microbiology, Food Safety and Foodborne pathogens, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology

Biography
Selected Publications
Courses Offered

Assem joined Department of Biology at Nazarbayev University as a Teaching Assistant in 2011. She was actively involved actively both in teaching and research processes of the department by mentoring a group of students interested in using zebrafish Danio rerio, to study hypoxic-ischemic brain damage. She was a part of a team led by Dr. Ken Alibek which published review articles on the role of pathogens in the development and progression of cancers.
In 2014, she left to pursue Master’s degree in France where she had an advantage of rotation in different research institutions to primarily study plant development and Tax protein in retrovirus HTLV-1.
In 2017, Assem joined Biology Department as an Instructor to teach laboratory practicals for undergraduate students. Currently, she supervises undergraduate students during their Summer internships and is involved in a research project to study bactericidal effects of silver nanoparticles under supervision of Dr. Kanayeva and Dr. Atabayev.