Biorhythms and Health

The leadership lecture «Biorhythms and Health» was held at the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology. The lectures was delivered by Sultan Tuleukhanov, Head of the Department of Biophysics and Biomedicine, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Kazakhstan.

First-year students of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology specializing in Biomedicine and Biology attended the lecture. This year, for the first time in the history of the University, 76 students were enrolled in the specialty «Biomedicine», among them 30 from foreign countries (Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan). Lecture by Professor S.T.Tuleukhanova on the topic «Biological rhythms and health» aroused great interest of students. At the lecture, the achievements of chronobiology and chronomedicine were discussed, numerous examples from life are given.

«There is no higher concept than health for living systems», - said Professor S.Tuleukhanov. The participants of the event highlighted the role of biological rhythms in human life and ways to maintain and rehabilitate human health during the meeting.

This direction was first developed on the basis of the Department of Biophysics and Biomedicine of KazNU. The Department has collaborated on chronophysiology with foreign colleagues from Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), Ben-Gurion University (Israel), Moscow State University, Peoples' Friendship University, Tomsk University (Russia) and other universities with which it conducts not only joint research, and publishes scientific articles as well. At the end of the lecture, students received comprehensive answers to their questions of interest.

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