Aiya Chukanova

Kabanbay Batyr street 53 · Astana, Kazakhstan · +7 (701) 331-66-77 · aiya.chukanova@nu.edu.kz

I am a researcher in biology.

Experience

RSE "Republican Collection of Microorganisms"

Responsibilities:

To verify the validity of safety precautions in the laboratory
To isolate and maintain bacterial and fungal cultures
To assist in the research experiments and perform basic laboratory operations (PCR, gel-electrophoresis, culture preparation, etc.)
To maintain log books of all performed laboratory activity

2017

Nazarbayev University, School of Science and Technology

Goals of the project:

To determine epitopes of human protein MUC-1 for investigating its role in cancer development using bioinformatic tools
To eliminate possibility of cross-reactivity using bioinformatic tools
To master the skill of operating with scientific software, online tools and databases

December 2011 - March 2013

Master in Molecular Medicine

August 2018 - May 2020

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences

Major: Biology, Microbiology Track

August 2014 - May 2018

University Preparatory Certificate

University College London program

August 2013 - May 2014

September 2002 - May 2013

Languages

PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES

Essential laboratory techniques: maintaining safety; isolating and maintaining bacterial and eukaryotic cultures; performing PCR, gel-electrophoresis, cryopreservation, preparation of competent cells, transformation, transfection, isolation of DNA, etc.
Operating with scientific software (PyMol, UCSF Chimera, etc.), tools (Clustal W, PatchDock, etc.) and databases (NCBI, PubMed, etc.)
Programming in C, Pascal, Basic, Visual Basic, LateX

Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biology of cancer