Kamilya Kokabi completed her BSc and MSc degrees from the L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University where she focused on stem cells research. After graduation she worked as a specialist in Research and Production Center for Transfusiology in Nur-Sultan where she was involving in the project of isolation of stem cells from cord blood cells. Then the PhD degree she obtained at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) under supervision of Prof. Inna Khozin-Goldberg. Her thesis dissertation was devoted to elucidating the role of autophagy in the oleaginous non-model microalga Lobosphaera incisa. Dr. Kamilya did her 1st Postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Zvulun Elazar at Weizmann Institute of Science. In this group she was involving to the project studying the molecular link of autophagy in neurodegeneration. In 2021, Dr. Kamilya joined to Nazarbayev University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar. 

Autophagy in health and diseases 

1. Tamim-Yecheskel BC, Fraiberg M, Kokabi K, Freud S, Shatz O, Marvaldi L, Subic N, Brenner O, Tsoory M, Eilam-Altstadter R, Biton I, Savidor A, Dezorella N, Heimer G, Behrends C, Ben-Zeev B, Elazar Z. A tecpr2 knockout mouse exhibits age-dependent neuroaxonal dystrophy associated with autophagosome accumulation. Autophagy. 2021 Oct;17(10):3082-3095. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2020.1852724. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33218264. 
2. Fraiberg M, Tamim-Yecheskel BC, Kokabi K, Subic N, Heimer G, Eck F, Nalbach K, Behrends C, Ben-Zeev B, Shatz O, Elazar Z. Lysosomal targeting of autophagosomes by the TECPR domain of TECPR2. Autophagy. 2021 Oct;17(10):3096-3108. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2020.1852727. Epub 2020 Nov 29. PMID: 33213269.
3. Kokabi K., Gorelova O., Ismagulova T., Itkin M., Malitsky S., Boussiba S., Khozin-Goldberg I. Metabolomic foundation for differential responses of lipid metabolism to nitrogen and phosphorus deprivation in an arachidonic acid producing green microalga. Plant Science DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.02.008 PMID: 31128719
4. Kokabi K, Gorelova O, Zorin B, Didi-Cohen S, Itkin M, Malitsky S, Solovchenko A, Boussiba S, Khozin-Goldberg I. Lipidome Remodeling and Autophagic Respose in the Arachidonic-Acid-Rich Microalga Lobosphaera incisa Under Nitrogen and Phosphorous Deprivation. Front Plant Sci. 2020 Nov 27;11:614846. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.614846. PMID: 33329680.