Welcoming 2023 With Two New Members of the TEE Lab - Sean Yap & Lam Weng Ngai
- Marx Yim
- Jan 9, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 3, 2023
Happy 2023 to all!
With the start of the new year, the TEE lab is ecstatic to extend our warmest welcome to two new member to our lab.
Sean Yap
Joining us as a post-doc researcher is Sean Yap, who will be focusing his efforts on taxonomy and inventorying the dung beetle species in Singapore. Also key will be his study on soil invertebrate fauna of peat swamps in Brunei from a molecular approach.
Sean has a strong interest in all things insects. Prior to this, he spent his time in NUS surveying the beetle diversity of Singapore with DNA-barcoding and Next-generation Sequencing for his honours thesis with the Evolutionary Biology Lab and later went on to complete his PhD to examine the reproductive evolution of dung beetles in Singapore and Malaysia with Reproductive Evolution Lab.
Lam Weng Ngai
Also joining us as a post-doc researcher is Lam Weng Ngai, who will be investigating how invertebrates contribute to litter and wood decomposition, and how traits may mediate these processes.
Weng Ngai's focus is on "bottom-up", process-based ecology. His interests revolves around how consumer-resource interactions alter population demographics, community structure and ultimately ecosystem function, and how traits mediate such interactions at their most basic level. Prior to his arrival, he completed his PhD at NUS with a focus on pitcher plants and continued his research as a post-doc researcher there.
The TEE Lab is happy to have you Sean and Weng Ngai!
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