Aisha Yesbolatova is a new postdoctoral associate at the Lee lab. She received her PhD in 2022 from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI. During her 5-year PhD program supported by the Japanese government, she initially worked on improving the auxin-inducible degron technology for investigating protein function with Prof. Masato Kanemaki. Later, she joined Prof. Yasuto Murayama to study the biochemical properties of the fission yeast meiotic cohesin complexes. In 2017, she graduated from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where she did her senior honors thesis analyzing the efficiency of the virus-derived expression system with Prof. Gonzalo Hortelano and Prof. Zhanat Muminova. Outside the lab, she likes to do sports, play chess, and explore new places.
