Kanat Abaevich Yermekbayev – General Director of the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, a state-owned enterprise under the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, since 2026.
He graduated from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (BSc in Biotechnology, 2009, MSc in Biology, 2014). He defended his doctoral dissertation at the John Innes Centre, UK (PhD in Biology, 2022). He is a plant geneticist with over 17 years of experience in crop genetics, molecular breeding, and genomic technologies.
Awards: Holder of the Bolashak International Presidential Scholarship, the «For Services to the Development of Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan» award.
Akhmetova Danyshpan – Principal scientific secretary, candidate of biological sciences. In 1982 she graduated from S. M. Kirov Kazakh State University, chemical faculty. In 1986 she was accepted in target postgraduate study of Timiryazev Institute of Physiology (the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). In 1993 she successfully defended the dissertation for degree of Candidate of Biology on the subject «Influence of NaCL on Formation of the Bound Proline and Hydroxyproline at Salt-resistant and Not Salt-resistant Cells of Nicotiana Sylvestris» , specialty «Plant Physiology». Since 1995 till present she works as the scientific secretary, then the principal scientific secretary of Institute. Author more than 50 publications.
