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The results of the annual "Best Scientist" award for 2025 have been announced

Published: December 30, 2025

The results of the annual "Best Scientist" award for 2025 have been announced. Following a competitive selection process, 50 scientists representing research institutes, higher education institutions, and research departments of various organizations were named laureates.

A meeting of the Central Council of the Society was held with the participation of the Vice-Rector of the Semey Medical University (Semey).

Published: October 17, 2025

It was decided to hold the 1st KOGIS2026 conference in Semey from May 13 to 15, 2026.

The conference organizing committee will begin its work in mid-November.

The Society's new issue of "Contig" is now available online.

Published: September 15, 2025

Our peer-reviewed journal, "Contig," publishes original research and reviews across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Society members have full access to the journal archive.

The latest issue of our scientific journal is now available for reading. This issue features articles on...

Top-ranked researchers based on the publications in the year 2025

Published: 19 September 2025| Version 8 | DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.8

Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), “August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository

Международная Научная Конференция "Life Sciences Today 2025 – Frontiers in Biomedicine: Infer, Innovate, Impact"

Дата: 17-19 сентября 2025

International Scientific Conference “LIFE SCIENCES TODAY 2025 – Frontiers in biomedicine: Infer, Innovate, Impact”, which will be focused on the cutting-edge achievements in biomedicine, including such fields as genomics, cancer, neurobiology, immunology, regenerative medicine, and physiology. The Conference will be held at the Center for Life Sciences (PI “National Laboratory Astana”, Nazarbayev University) in Astana, Kazakhstan

the Autumn School of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

North Kazakhstan University named after Manash Kozybaev invites students, teachers, researchers, doctoral students and undergraduates to take part in the Autumn School of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, which will be held October 20-24, 2025 in Petropavlovsk.

The school is supported by the Center for Agricultural Competence of the NKU and it is the first event of this level in Kazakhstan dedicated to modern technologies for analyzing and annotating genomes. Participants will have a unique opportunity to undergo training under the guidance of international specialists and acquire practical skills in working with real sequencing data.

On awarding state awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Published: April 10, 2025

For great achievements in the field of science to award: Turuspekov Erlan Kenesbekovich (academician of the highest scientific organization "National Academy of Sciences" under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan" of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) Ministry of Science and Higher Education), Kakimzhanova Almagul Apsalamovna (head of the laboratory of LLP "National Center of Biotechnology" of the Ministry of Health), Krupa Elena Grigorievna (chief researcher of RSE "Institute of Zoology" of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and other scientists of the community, the Order "Kurmet" ("Honor") and other high state awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3rd International Symposium on Advanced Research on Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in the Third Pole of the World (PDCR 2025). The Symposium will be held on August 26-29, 2025, in Almaty.

Published: October 15, 2024

We invite you to participate in the 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Research on Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in the Third Pole of the World (PDCR 2025). The Symposium will be held on August 26-29 in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. The work of the Symposium will cover such urgent problems as the study and conservation of biodiversity and plant genetic resources of Tibet and mountain systems of East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and organization of cooperation in the countries of Central Asia.

"Achievements in the field of genetics and breeding" Republican Conference of Kazakhstan Society of Geneticists and Breeders (KOGiS)

Published: 12 Mar 2025

On March 12-13, 2025 the conference "Advances in Genetics and Breeding" - Republican Conference of the Kazakhstan Society of Geneticists and Breeders (KOGiS) was held on the basis of Nazarbayev University (NU) in Astana. The organizers of the conference are the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NAS RK) and National Laboratory Astana. The initiator of the Republican Public Association (RPA) "Kazakhstan Society of Geneticists and Breeders" (RPA "KOGiS") was Academician Turuspekov Yerlan Kenesbekovich, with the support of an initiative group of scientists. The conference was attended by about 100 leading Kazakhstani scientists in the field of human genetics, genetics and breeding of animals, plants and microorganisms.

International Scientific Conference on Plant Biology and Biotechnology (ICPBB 2024)

Published: Almaty, June 3-6, 2024

The work of the conference will cover such pressing issues as the study and rational use of plant genetic resources, resistance to abiotic and biotic stress factors, development of new genomic, proteomic and phenomic technologies, and genetic engineering research. ICPBB 2024 will aim to discuss the effective utilization of next generation technologies in plant genetics and breeding.

4th International Scientific Conference "Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Plant Biotechnology" (PlantGen2017)

Published: Almaty, May 29 - June 2, 2017

The work of the conference is devoted to such urgent problems as the study and rational use of plant genetic resources, resistance to abiotic and biotic stress factors of the environment, development of new genomic and phenomic technologies and genetic engineering research.