PhD Qualifying Exam Success: Congratulations Jasmine!

We are super proud of our PhD student, Jasmine Ong, who has successfully passed her qualifying examinations recently! Jasmine is supervised by Associate Professor Kim Hie Lim and Associate Professor Eleanor Slade and is studying the climate resilience of tropical dung beetles.

Jasmine with her PhD supervisors, Associate Professor Kim Hie Lim and Associate Professor Eleanor Slade. Photo: Shuna Maekawa, 2026.

For her qualifying exam, she presented a phylogenetic study on Catharsius dung beetles in Singapore and explored the relationship with other Catharsius species in the region. In her PhD, Jasmine will continue to investigate the population genetics of these dung beetles in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, and how they adapt to environmental changes.

Huge congratulations Jasmine! Well done!