Kaisar Dauyey

Physician and researcher

Questions from medicine.
Answers from biology.

My work starts with a question about a person, a population, or an organism. I use clinical observation, genetics, and computation to understand what the evidence can tell us.

My papers follow infections, cancer, immune disease, and the people who provide care. My doctoral thesis brings together ancient human genomes and the response of reef fish to a changing ocean.

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MD, Nazarbayev University · PhD in Genetics, SOKENDAI
Postdoctoral research, Hokkaido University

Golden Kamui-inspired collage of black cats, tabbies, a black-and-white cat, and a calico by the Okinawa sea — Critical inspiration for research work.

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Infection and resistanceWhat local evidence does a clinician need?Patient samples, culture, and antibiotic resistance in Kazakhstan. Patients and careWhere does care become difficult?Diagnostic delays, cancer genetics, and the experience of palliative care professionals. Ancient genomesHow far can a modern genetic score travel?Exploratory comparisons across ancestry and time. Reef fish and adaptationHow does a changing ocean reach the genome?Transposable element related transcripts under elevated carbon dioxide.

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Antibiotic resistance results from the Almaty H. pylori study

Frontiers in Microbiology · 2026

Antibiotic resistance in Almaty

Our study enrolled 150 patients and recovered 86 viable H. pylori isolates. Testing those isolates gave us a local resistance profile to compare with regional evidence.

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Themes from the study of Kazakhstan's palliative care workforce

BMC Palliative Care · 2025

The people behind the care

Interviews with 60 palliative care professionals in Kazakhstan explored emotional strain, burnout, and how people understood their work.

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Sea turtle among coral at Aka Island, Okinawa, providing field context for marine research

Doctoral thesis · SOKENDAI · 2024

Ancient humans and changing reefs

My thesis examines polygenic scores in ancient genomes and TE related expression in 72 reef fish brain transcriptomes. Both ask how genetic signals make sense in their biological context.

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Current research

From tissue to cell states.

At Hokkaido University, I work with whole slide images, spatial biology, and computational models. Geneformer perturbations help propose genes to investigate. Donor consistency and tissue evidence guide the next step.

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