Ywee Chieh clears a hurdle

Graduate students undergo a qualifying exam before their projects are okay-ed for PhD pursuit. Its is typically a nerve-wracking time and probably a time many wonder why they are doing this in the first place. And a typical approach is to count down to and lament about the approaching “doomsday”.
However in the process of [...]

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Young single male seeks 700 undergrads!

If you happen to be 18 – 25 years old…

… and happen to be around Lecture Theatre 24 and 25 in NUS…

…and see this poor guy hovering around a makeshift booth…
…so step forward and say “hi”, and volunteer five minutes of your time. He needs 700 volunteers willing to play a simple computer game. The [...]

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Marine Bio Lab: New members

They are actually not new, they have joined the lab for a couple of months. (Yours truly has been procastinating to write this entry…)

Lionel Ng joined TMSI since October as a research assistant. He is based in Marine Bio lab under the supervision of Prof Chou.
(Photo removed, sorry Diana~)
Diana Neo is also an RA based [...]

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Duc moves on

Six years and four months since he stepped onto the pirate ship that is Ecolab, Duc returned to Hanoi yesterday with his Phd in his pocket, ready to start his own empire building back in Vietnam.
The last week was crazy with him distilling his life in Singapore into little boxes, sorting specimens and hosting Dr. [...]

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Faculty awards!

Faculty Awards for teaching and service, well done everyone!
L-R: Tommy Tan, Laura-Marie Yap, Rudolf Meier,Jose Christopher E. “JC” Mendoza, Reena Devi
J.C. kindly sent in this report:
The Faculty of Science 2008 Awards were given to the different members of the faculty’s component departments in a ceremony at the University Hall last Friday (14 November 2008). [...]

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Zombified, and not due to thesis writing

It seems not all of us were swamped with marking final CAs this weekend. One at least was busy terrorising folk during “Zomb-Out!,” the “first zombie walk in Singapore, from Raffles City to City Link.
It would make sense for YC to do this the week before he submits his thesis. No acting would be [...]

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Danwei’s letter to Science

Hi Siva,
Hehe just thought to share this with the rest of the BioD community here, that Danwei has published a letter to Science! Not sure if this is newsworthy enough to post on the blog, but it sure is great news to the marine labbies
Cheers,
yujie
Hi Yujie,
lovely news! Thanks for the [...]

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Of beetles and bosses on sabbatical

Conservation Ecology Lab denizens Janice Lee, Lainie Qie and Enoka Kudavidanage, otherwise known as the “dung beetle girls”, attended the Scarabnet meeting in Black Rock Forest, New York from September 25-29.  They met fellow dung beetle researchers, presented their work, and engaged in serious discussions on the ecology of their study organisms, asking questions such [...]

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Reuben Clements – still plugging away in KL

Biodiversity crew alumnus Reuben Clements may be busy tracking rhinos and tigers in the last wilderness of the Malaysian jungle with WWF Malaysia these days, but that does not stop him from finding time to keep going at his primary research!

This month sees a bumper crop of two papers from him and his collaborators.

Reuben Clements, [...]

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Rudolf Meier now Vice President of the Willi Hennig Society

Prof. Meier has recently been made the vice president of the Willi Hennig society. Founded in 1980, it promotes the field of phylogenetic systematics, or cladistics. This refers to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry.  The latter is also the name of the ISI-ranked journal which is published on the society’s behalf.
He will [...]

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