Autobiography

Svetlana Kazbekovna Turasheva was born on November 7, 1973 in the Almaty region. In 1990, she graduated from secondary comprehensive school No. 40 in Almaty. In 1996, she graduated from the Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University with the qualification of "Biologist. Teacher of Biology and Chemistry". After completing an internship at the Institute of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Bioengineering (IPGBR), she entered the full-time department of the Postgraduate School in the specialty "03.00.23-Biotechnology" (1997-2000). From 2001 to 2004, she worked as a junior researcher in the biotechnology laboratory at the IPGBR. In 2003, defended her candidate dissertation on the topic: "Improving biotechnological methods for creating androgenic doubled haploids of soft wheat", and in 2004 she was awarded the academic degree of candidate of biological sciences (PhD) in the specialty "03.00.23-Biotechnology". In 2011, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the specialty 03.00.01-Biology; in 2024, she was awarded the title of Professor in the specialty 03.00.01-Biology. Since 2004, she was a researcher, and then a senior research fellow (2005-2007, part-time) in the laboratory of Cell engineering of the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology. In 2005- 2006 she worked as a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology of the Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical Institute. From 2006-2014, she worked as an associate professor of the Department of Biotechnology, and since 20014 as an acting professor, since 2024 as a professor of the Department of Biotechnology of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Turasheva Svetlana is the author of more than 130 works, including 3 monographs, 2 collective monographs, 8 educational and methodological publications, 4 textbooks with the stamp of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and RUMS in Kazakh, English and Russian languages, the author of 3 patents. She is the responsible leader group of republican and international projects (IAEA). Svetlana has certificates of completion of internships, trainings, language courses and advanced training courses for scientific and teaching staff (IELTS, TOEFL, IAEA, international accreditation agency ASIIN, international certificate in engineering education ENAEE, Orleu). She speaks in German (basic), in English (B2), in Kazakh (native), in Russian (fluent). Total work experience: 34 years, including scientific and teaching experience - 25 years.