In defense of Portunus pelagicus

Joelle Lai had her PhD defense today. After two weeks of revisiting her thesis and constructing a concise presentation, she conducted an excellent delivery and did justice to five years of field, museum and molecular work. And she finally got to show off her haplotype network diagrams!

After a feisty Q&A, the audience left her to [...]

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Nalini’s videos to be used in UNSW Evolution class

One of the reviewers for Nalini’s recent submission to BMC Evolutionary Biology Journal was so taken by her exquisite video rendering of the subtle intricacies of sepsid fly courtship that he shed his anonymity in order to call her study “brilliant”, offer her a Ph.D or postdoc position at his lab AND request for her [...]

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Holiday job for undergraduates: sorting freshwater invertebrates

NUS undergraduate student assistants are needed for a freshwater invertebrate project.

Scope: Mostly involves sorting specimen samples, but some fieldwork may be possible.
Extent: Students are required to work for about 100 hours.
Duration: mid-May through to mid or late June.
Pay: Commensurate NUS rates.
Contact: Ms Low E-wen at g0601165@nus.edu.sg for more details.

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CPR and AED familiarisation

There have been two casualties of heart failure in NUS in the past year. One staff member failed to revive despite rapid response and first aid application and another did not receive any CPR assistance. NUS regrets their loss and this series of CPR and AED familiarisation is a first step in improving the [...]

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Peter Todd’s promotion lunch

The Biodiversity Crew tucked in last week in a celebratory lunch thrown by Peter Todd in light of his recent promotion.
Congratulations Peter and thanks for the feed!

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NUS Librarians are blogging!

Yes, our NUS Librarians are blogging – hop over to linusonline.wordpress.com for a look and drop them a word. I’m impressed!

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Job Opportunity: Research Assistant for Herptile field work (Deadline – 09 May 2008)

Job Opportunity: Research Assistant at the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS (Deadline – 09 May 2008).
21 April 2008 – The Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore is advertising for a suitable candidate to fill the post of a research assistant who will work on a freshwater project that will end on 31 May [...]

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Peter Todd promoted to Asst Professor

Hi people:
Good news! Peter Todd is now the newest Assistant Professor in our group – congratulations Peter!
Best wishes,
Navjot

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“NUS team makes history by finding frog with no lungs” (ST, 10 Apr 2008)

Shobana Kesava dropped into NUS yesterday to interview David Bickford and the article was out today. Pretty quick work! The accompanying map gives only a vague indication of the locality of the frog to prevent poaching. As it is the original locality was wiped out by mining and logging activity.

There is an NUS press release [...]

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The lungless (!) Bornean flat-headed frog, Barbourula kalimantanensis

In advance of its publication in Current Biology (apparently in volume 18), news of the paper announcing the lungless frog (the Bornean flat-headed frog, Barbourula kalimantanensis) by David Bickford and colleagues from Indonesia – Djoko Iskandar and Anggraini Barlian of Institut Teknologi Bandung, Java, Indonesia – has been released.
My eyes widened last month when [...]

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