(Media Feature) Ten years of a “dung” connection with tiny beetles

We are proud to see TEE Lab's Dr Ong Xin Rui featured in Singapore's largest Chinese-language newspaper, 联合早报 Lianhe Zaobao!

Lianhe Zaobao article. Published on 4 September 2026.

In this recent 街访街坊 (Street Interview with Locals), Xin Rui reminisced about how she first ventured into the world of dung beetles after losing a game of rock-paper-scissors as an undergraduate. She also shared about our recent study "Using Metabarcoding Techniques to Map Multiple Dung Beetle-Vertebrate iDNA Networks in a Southeast Asian Forest", as well as our ongoing efforts to understand the natural history and evolutionary relationships of dung beetles in Southeast Asia.

联合早报 Lianhe Zaobao article: https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore/story20260903-9613071