EDUCATION

1962-1967 BS, M.Sc. Dept. of Biology and Chemistry, Rostov/Don State University, Russia.

1974 Ph.D., USSR Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia;

1990 Dr.Sc., Inst. of Med. Genetics of RAS, Moscow, Russia

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

2007 – Elected as Full Member of Dagestan National Academy of Sciences

2002 – Honor Diploma of President of Russian Academy of Sciences for achievements and success in the science.

2000 – Honor Diploma of President of Russian Academy of Sciences for achievements and success in the science. 3

1999 - Special Diploma of President of Russian Academy of Sciences with Acknowledgment for the long-term and successful research in the Academy.

1994 - Doctor Habilitatus (Diploma N DH09324b; International Academy of Sciences, San Marino).
 

GRANT AWARDS
 

Principal Investigator:

1994-1996, Biomedical consequences of Dagestan Highland ethnic groups forcibly migrated in 1944 from native highlands to the new lowland environment. Research Grant Awarded by Ministry of Ethnic Politics of Russian Federation

1994-1996, a Genetic adaptation of Dagestan highlanders to their native and new/changing environment. Research Grant Awarded from the Russian State Program ‘Frontiers in Genetics’.

1994-1995, Genetic and Epidemiology of the Dagestan highland isolates in their native and changing environment. Research Grant Awarded by Dagestan Premier-Minister.

2006-2009, Dynamics of Caucasus indigenous ethnic groups gene pool. Res. Grant awarded by Russian Academy of Sciences

2008–2011. ‘Ethnogenomic diversity of Daghestan’. Research grant awarded from Russian Academy of Sciences Program ‘Biological diversity: Human gene pool’.

2008-2011, ‘Mapping genes of neuropsychiatric diseases in Caucasus ethnically and demographically diverse genetic isolates’. Research Grant awarded by the Council of Russian Academy of Sci. Program ‘Basic science for medicine’

2011-2013, "Role of CNV and LOH in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia: a cross-isolates study". Research Grant awarded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. #11-04-00835-а

2012-2015 – Problems of adaptive gene pool preservation of mountain ethnic groups (Caucasus, Russia). Research grant awarded from Russian Academy of Sciences Program ‘Biological diversity: Human gene pool’.

Co-Principal Investigator in International research grants awarded:

1992-1993 Genetics of the Caucasian small ethnic groups. Research Grant Awarded from Australian Foundation ‘Bilateral Science and Technology’ (Australia)

1995-1996 Genetic and Neuroendocrinology study of the Daghestan highland isolates. Research Grant, Lehman Foundation ( Denmark).

1997-1998 Search for Schizophrenia Susceptibility Genes in Russian Isolated Populations. NIH, 5 R29 MH52055 (US)

1999-2001 Mapping Schizophrenia Genes in Daghestan Isolates. NIMH, R01MH60342 (US)

1999-2001 Genetic and History of Daghestan Ethnics. NSF SBR-9818215 (US)

2003-2004 Testing Models of Human Mobility across Europe by an Integrated Analysis of Genetic Markers and Bio-Demographic Sources in Two Key-Areas: Northern Thyrrenum (Italy) and Dagestan (Caucasus, Russia). MIUR 2003054059-002 (Italy)

2007-2008 Genetic, Linguistic Diversity of the Highland Populations of Daghestan, NSF 0742328 (US)

2010-2013 ‘Testing Models of Genetic and Linguistic Change in the Caucasus Mountains’;

NSF #0922641, (US)

2016-2021 -NIMH - accepted(# arrived soon) Psychiatric GWAS Consortium (PGC) -NGS genotyping Dagestan Genetic Heritage pedigrees data set

MEMBER

1991-2003 – Member of the Council, International Association of Human Biologists (Italy);

2004-2008 – Elected Member of Ethical Legal Social Issues Committee (ELSI), IGES, US

2008- 2016, Elected member of IRB, at NI Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, RAS

2012- present, Member of Intern Scientific Consortium ENIGMA, USC, US

2007- present, Elected Member of Dagestan National Academy of Sciences, Dagestan, Russia

2016-present, Member of International Psychiatric GWAS Consortium (PGC), US

JOURNAL AFFILIATIONS

2006/present, Member of Reviewers Board of Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (Iran)

2016 -present Member of Reviewers Board, AMJMG/NPG (US)

2007/present, Member of Editorial Board of ‘J. of Pediatric Infectious Diseases’ (Turkey)

2009- present, Member of Editorial Board of J. Pediatric Biochemistry’ (Turkey)

2009-present, Member of Editorial Board of Open Journal of Genomics (UK)

2010- present, Member of Reviewer Board, Turkish J.of Pediatric Genetics (Turkey)

2009-present, Member of Reviewers Board, American Journal of Epidemiology (US)

2013-present, Member of Editorial Board, J. of Infectious Diseases and Therapeutics (Pakistan)

2013-present, Member of Editorial Board, Am. J. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (US)

2014- present Member of Editorial Board, Global Journal of Allergy (India)

2014- present Member of Editorial Board, J. Infection Diseases and Therapy(UK)

2013- present, Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Schizophrenia Research (US)

1. Bulayeva K.B., Bulayev O.A.,  (2016) Genomic architecture of schizophrenia across diverse genetic isolates. A study of Dagestan populations. Stephen Glatt, Ed.  Springer International Publishing Switzerland. 184 p.
2. Kazima Bulayeva, Thompson P,  K.P.Lesh et al. (2017). Common genomic variants across   SCZ and ASD clinical phenotypes. Mol.Psychiatry. Submitted.
3. Claudia L.Satizabal, Hieab H. H.Adams, Derrek P. Hibar... K. Bulayeva et al. (2017). Genetic Architecture of Subcortical Brain Structures in Over 40,000 Individuals Worldwide. bioRxiv preprint, online Aug.28,2017; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/173831
4.  H. Derrek, H Adams....P Thompson....K Bulayeva. (2017).  Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume. Nature Communications,  8:13624 · January 2017. Claudia L.Satizabal, Hieab H. H.Adams, Derrek P. Hibar... K. Bulayeva et al. (2017). Genetic Architecture of Subcortical Brain Structures in Over 40,000 Individuals Worldwide. bioRxiv preprint, online Aug.28,2017; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/173831
5.  Thompson P., Derrek P Hibar …Bulayeva K  et al. (2016). Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association. Nature Neuroscience,  19:1569–1582.
6. Nicholas G Martin, Margaret J Wright, Gunter Schumann, Barbara Franke, Paul  Thompson, ...Kazima Bulayeva et al (2016). Genetic influences on schizophrenia and subcortical brain volumes: large-scale proof of concept. Nature Neuroscience, 19,420–431.
7. Paul Thompson, Derrek P Hibar, Jason L Stein,...Kazima Bulayeva et al. (2015). Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures. Nature, Nature Publishing Group,   520 (7546), pp.224-9.
8. Mike Hammer, Tatiana M. Karafet, Kazima B. Bulayeva, Johanna Nichols et al. (2016). Co-evolution of genes and languages and high levels of population structure among the highland populations of Daghestan.  J. Human Genetics, 61(3):181-91.
9. Thompson P., Stein…Bulayeva K  et al. (2015). ENIGMA and the Individual: Predicting Factors that Affect the Brain in 35 Countries Worldwide.  Invited Paper, for the Special Issue of NeuroImage, on “Individual Prediction”. S1053-8119(15)01081-2.
10. K.B. Bulayeva, O.A. Bulayev, F.R Gurgenova, S.J. Glatt, T. Takumi, H. Kawakami, T.N. Maksimova, J.K. Omarova and P.M. Thompson. (2015). Genome-wide Linkages Scan and Structural Genomic Variants of Major Depressive Disorder in Dagestan Genetic Isolates.   INTECH, 1-25.
11. George B.J. Busby,….Kazima Bulayeva et al  (2015). The role of recent history in forming the contemporary West Eurasian genomic landscape. Current Biology. 25, 1-9.  
12. Kazima Bulayeva, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Oleg Bulayev, Christopher Walsh, Stephen Glatt, Farida Gurgenova, JamiljaOmarova, Irina Berdichevets, Paul M. Thompson (2015). Genomic Structural Variation In Linked With Intellectual Disability Regions In a Dagestan Genetic Isolate. J. Neural Transmission. 122(9):1289-301.
13. Tatiana M Karafet, Kazima B Bulayeva, Oleg A Bulayev, Farida Gurgenova, JamiliaOmarova, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Olga V Savina, Krishna R Veeramah and Michael F Hammer (2015). Extensive genome-wide autozygosity in the population isolates of Daghestan. EJHG. 23, 1405–1412; 
14. Thompson, Paul …Bulayeva Kazima…et al. (2014). The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data. Brain Imaging and Behavior,  2014; 8(2): 153–182.
15. K.B.Bulayeva, S.J.Glatt, C.A. Walsh, F.R. Gurgenova, I. Berdichevets, O.A. Bulayev, P. Thompson. (2013). Significant linkage and structural-genomic variants at 12q24.21-q24.32 found in genetic isolate with aggregation of unspecific mental retardation. J. Open Genomics. 2-1.
16.  Ахмедова А.Р., Шамов И.А., Булаева К.Б. (2013). Влияние инбридинга на гематологические показатели и на некоторые симптомы железодефицитной анемии. Вестник ДГМА, № 3(8):35-47. [Ahmedova A.R., Shamov I.A., Bulayeva K.B. (2013). Role of inbreeding to hematologic parameters and to development of IDA. Proceeding of Dagestan State Medical Academy. #3(8):35-47]
17. Курбатова О.Л., Победоносцева Е.Ю., Гургенова Ф.Р., Булаева К.Б. (2012) Изменчивость индекса Кроу в Дагестанских этнических группах. Ж. Генетика. 48:1221-1227. [Kurbatova O.L., Pobedonosceva E.Ju., Girgenova F.R., Bulayeva K.B. (2012). Variation of Crow index in Dagestan ethnic groups. Russ. J. Genetics, 48:1221-1227]
18. Luca Pagani, QasimAyub, Daniel G. MacArthur, YaliXue, Yuan Chen, Iwanka Kozarewa, Daniel J. Turner, Sergio Tofanelli, Kazima Bulayeva, Kenneth Kidd, Giorgio Paoli, Chris Tyler-Smith (2011). High altitude adaptation in Daghestani populations from the Caucasus. J Hum.Genet, 131 (3), pp. 423-433.
19. Bulayev O.A., Gurgenova F.R., Guseinova U.M. and Bulayeva K.B. (2012).Mapping genes of major recurrent depression in two Dagestan genetic isolates. Korsakov J. of Neuropsychiatry, 111,10:62 (Russia).
20. Bertoncini S., Bulayeva K., Pagani L., Ferri G., Taglioli L., Bulayev O.A., Gurgenova F.R., Semenov I., Paoli G., Tofanelli S. (2012). The Dual Origin of Tati-Speakers from Dagestan as Written in the Genealogy of Uniparental Variants. Am J Hum Biol. 24(4):391-9.
21. Kazima B.Bulayeva, Todd Lencz, Stephen Glatt, Toru Takumi, Farida R. Gurgenova, Oleg A.Bulayev (2011). Genome-wide Linkage Scan of Major Depressive Disorder in Two Dagestan Genetic Isolates.   CEJM(EU), 6:616.
22. Bulayeva K.B., Lencz Todd, Takumi T., Glatt S.J., Gurgenova F.R, Guseynova U., Kawakami H., Bulayev O.A. (2011) Mapping Genes of Early Onset Major Depressive Disorder in Dagestan Genetic Isolates. Turkish J of Psychiatry, 2012 Fall;23(3):161-70.
23. Chad D Huff, Ph.D., David Witherspoon, Yuhua Zhang, Chandler Gatenbee, Subra Kugathasan, HakonHarkonarson, April Whiting, Chadwick Davis, Wilfred Wu, Jinchuan Xing, W. Scott Watkins, Mike Bamshad, Kazima Bulayeva, Tatum Simonson, Lynn B Jorde, Steve L Guthery. (2011). Crohn's disease and genetic hitchhiking at IBD5. MolBiolEvol,   Aug 4, (Epubl online).
24. Xing J, Watkins WS, Witherspoon DJ, Zhang Y, Guthery SL, Thara R, Mowry BJ, Bulayeva K, Weiss RB, Jorde LB. (2009). The fine-scaled human genetic structure revealed by SNP microarrays. Genome Res. May; 19(5):815-25.
25. Bulayeva K.B. (2009). The population approach to the genetic study of human complex phenotypes. In: Proceedings of All-Russian Conference celebrating N.P.Dubinin 100 year’s jubilee.  Moscow; Nauka: 135-149.
26. Laura Caciagli, Kazima Bulayeva, Oleg Bulayev, StefaniaBertoncini, Luca Taglioli, Luca Pagani, Giorgio Paoli, Sergio Tofanelli. (2009).The key role of patrilineal inheritance in shaping the genetic variation of Dagestan highlanders.J. of Human Genetics (2009) 54, 689–694.
27. Tofanelli S, Ferri G, Bulayeva K, Caciagli L, Onofri V, Taglioli L, Bulayev O, Boschi I, Alù M, Berti A, Rapone C, Beduschi G, Luiselli D, CadenasAM,Awadelkarim KD, Mariani-Costantini R, Elwali NE, Verginelli F, Pilli E, Herrera RJ, Gusmão L, Paoli G, Capelli. (2009). J1-M267 Y lineage marks climate-driven pre-historical human displacements. Eur J HumGenet.17, 1520–1524
28. Elizabeth E Marchani, W Scott Watkins, Kazima Bulayeva, Henry C Harpending, Lynn B Jorde. Culture creates genetic structure in the Caucasus: Autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y-chromosomal variation in Daghestan. BMC Genetics. 2008, 9:47, 1-13.
29. Kazima Bulayeva, Elizabeth Marchani, Olga L. Kurbatova1, Scott W. Watkins2, Oleg A. Bulayev1, Henry C. Harpending. (2008). Genetic bottleneck among Daghestan highlanders migrating to lowlands. CEJM,8(4),396-405.
30. Nabil Sabri Enattah, Aimee Trudeau, Ville Pimenoff... Kazima Bulayeva et al (2007). Evidence for still-ongoing convergence evolution of the lactase persistence T-13910 alleles in humans. Am.J.Hum.Genet. Sep;81(3):615-25.