Bekkuzhina Sara Sabdenovna

Doctor of Biological Sciences, associate professor,

Department of microbiology and biotechnology

Office 311 , tel. +7(7172)38-39-01

E-mail: s.bekkuzhina@kazatu.edu.kz

Sphere of scientific interests

Expansion of the genetic base of crops with a combination of the methods of modern biology and conventional breeding; biodiversity conservation of rare and endangered species of plants in Kazakhstan; Study of the activity of immunomodulators for the creation of starting material in the selection of grain crops for resistance to abiotic and biotic factors, DNA barcoding of plant resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Delivered disciplines

Plant biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, marking and testing biotechnological products, processes producing secondary metabolites, theoretical foundations and applied aspects of plant cell and tissue culture, bioethics and biosafety in biotechnology, biotechnology and marketing of secondary plant metabolites production.

Education

1980-1985	Tselinograd Agricultural Institute
1988-1989	Training. Lomonosov Moscow State University
1990-1993	Postgraduate Timiryazev Moscow Agroculture Academy
2007-2009	Implementation of doctoral thesis, Senior Researcher
2011	Doctorate Timiryazev Moscow Agroculture Academy

Work experience

1986-1987	Forage production laboratory, Senior Researcher
1993-1995	Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Assistant
1995-1999	Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Senior Lecturer
1999-2001	Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Department, Associate Professor
2001-2005	Head of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Department
2010-	Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Senior lecturer

Awards and Honours

Medal of «KAZATU 55th anniversary in the name of S.Seifullin», 2012
Medal of «S.Seifullin» KATRU,2023
Gratitude of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2000

Advanced training courses

1. Sub-regional Training on Agricultural Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy Development - Budapest, Hungary, 2-4 October 2017.

2. Sub-regional training on GMO Risk Communication, 19-22 June 2017.

3. Sub-regional training on Biosafety, 25-27 April 2017, Baku, Azerbaijan

4. Plant biotechnology – NCB RK, 2022

Published works

More than 100 works were published. More important among them close to the mentioned sphere of scientific interests are

1. Developments and prospects for doubled haploid wheat - Biotechnology Advances 60 (2022) 108007 IF17.681. P.1-8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv. 2022.108007

2. High frequency direct shoot regeneration from Kazakh commercial potato cultivars (printed) - Рeer.J.-2020,Issue7, 020. PeerJ 8:e9447

http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9447 P.1-12. Percentile – 84, Web of science: Q2 JCR IF is 2.379

3. Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from upland switchgrass cultivars - Research on Crops. - 2020. - Vol.21(2). №34. - P.217-222. Scopus: Percentile -19

4. Method choice for processing sugar sorghum juice to prevent the formation of 5- hydroxymethylfurfural in the syrup during storage - Eurasia j. Biosci. (printed) – 2020. -№14.– Р.1273-1280. IF 0.590Scopus: Percentile – 22.

5. Studies on callus induction of Cistanche deserticola from Kazakhstan deserts (printed) - Journal of Biotechnology. Proc. of the Europ. Biotech. Cong. – Valencia, Spain, 2019. – Vol.305 – P. S12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.05.055. Web of science: Q2 (SJR): IF-3,503

6. Selection of Wheat for Resistance to the Fungal Pathogen Septoria Nodorum Berk. in an Isolated Anther Culture (printed) - ISSN 1068-3674, Russian Agricultural Sciences, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 215–217. © Allerton Press, Inc., 2009.Springer, IF123.

7. Features of direct regeneration of domestic potato varieties in culture in vitro. (printed) - Experimental Biology. – Almaty, 2020. – №2 (83). – С.34-41.

8. In vitro culture of foreign and local panicum virgatum and panicum miliaceum cultivars (printed) - Eurasian Journal of Applied Biotechnology №.3.2018.3. DOI: 10.11134/btp.3.2018.3