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Renowned Singaporean conservation scientist joins NUS

1 April 2020 | Professor Koh Lian Pin, an award-winning conservation scientist, joins NUS Biological Sciences to start a new…
Over 60 per cent of Myanmar’s mangroves deforested in the last 20 years

The research, led by Associate Professor Edward Webb and Mr Jose Don De Alban, was published online in the journal Environmental…
Substantial mangrove deforestation in Myanmar

A/P Edward Webb found that more than 60% of the mangrove cover in Myanmar had been converted to agricultural and…
10 new bird taxa in little-explored islands of Wallacea

The results of the study, which were published in the journal Science on 9 January 2020, provide evidence that our…
NUS Holds First Amgen Scholars Asia Symposium in Singapore

The first Amgen Scholars Asia Symposium was held in NUS from August 3 – 4, 2019. Hosted by the Amgen…
Critically endangered monkey that calls S’pore home

A research co-led by Dr Andie Ang of the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at the Dept of Biological Sciences at NUS Faculty of Science showed that the black-and-white Raffles’ banded langur, is not only critically endangered in Singapore, it may be threatened with extinction globally too.
Timothy Saunders selected as EMBO Global Investigator

Asst. Prof. Timothy Saunders, MBI Principal Investigator and Department of Biological Sciences, NUS has been selected to join the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Global Investigator Network. This new EMBO Programme, launched in 2019, aim to identify and support the next generation of scientific leaders that have started their laboratories in EMBC Associate Member States or in a country or territory covered by a cooperation agreement with EMBC
NUS lecturer finds snake species not seen here in 172 years

Dr John van Wyhe, a senior lecturer at NUS Biological Sciences and Tembusu College found this snake specimen while mountain biking at Bukit Timah on 16 September. Known by its scientific name Ramphotyphlops lineatus, its presence in Singapore was deemed ‘indeterminate’ for more than a century, but since Dr van Wyhe’s encounter, the snake has now been confirmed ‘extant’.
Dartmouth College’s 250th Celebration of the Sciences Lecture: Paul Matsudaira

Professor Paul Matsudaira has the honor of being invited by Dartmouth College to give a Public Lecture entitled…
Moving Pictures

The Virtual Wallace Collection is now available online, visually illustrating the most complete record of Singapore’s natural history heritage from the 19th century.
SFU Outstanding Alumni Award – Emeritus Professor Hew Choy Leong

Emeritus Professor Hew Choy Leong has again been conferred another very prestigious Outstanding Alumni Award, this time by Simon Fraser University (SFU) for his Academic Achievement. Congratulations!
Unlikely pollinators

For most plant owners, insects that belong to the orthopteran family, such as grasshoppers and crickets, are best described as pests that eat greenery. However, research by NUS Biological Sciences PhD student Tan Ming Kai has revealed that some of these insects, particularly from the Southeast Asian region, actually pollinate flowers the way butterflies and bees do.

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