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Liverpool, United Kingdom
I am interested in how we can use DNA sequences to understand biodiversity – how do we recognise species, and how are species related at taxonomic, ecological and geographic levels? My passion for biodiversity research has led me from the world’s largest natural history collection - Natural History Museum, London, where I completed my MSc, to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario - global centre for the international Barcode of Life, as a PhD student, and to the hyper-diverse tropics of Southeast Asia. The tropics will be the first regions to experience historically unprecedented climates and this will happen within the next decade. Consequently my recent research has focussed on understanding the effects of urbanisation and climate change on tropical and subtropical biodiversity - encompassing both species richness and ecological integrity across a diversity of taxonomic groups.

Jan 5, 2018

RESEARCH UPDATE - PRIZE-WINNING PRESENTATION

Congratulations to VC on winning the best oral presentation prize at the BSGC 2017 in Singapore last month! VC is my last postgraduate student at the University of Malaya and is due to submit her PhD thesis very soon. The BSGC is a great initiative between UM, NUS and Chula, and my former students have been very successful at this event in the past. The study presented by VC at the BSCG 2017 is under review at PeerJ.

BSGC 2017