Lab members
Dr Eunice Jingmei Tan
Assistant Professor | Principal Investigator
Department of Biological Sciences,
National University of Singapore
Research Affiliate, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
Eunice combines field experiments with interspecific comparative analyses to address questions in ecological adaptations, using terrestrial invertebrates as study systems.
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Eunice studied web-decorating spiders for her Masters degree at the National University of Singapore. During her doctoral research at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Eunice examined the evolution of colour patterns in Australian leaf beetles using a combination of phylogenetic comparative analyses and field experiments. As a postdoctoral fellow at Yale-NUS College, Eunice performed transcriptomic research to examine the genes involved in male courtship behaviour in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana, and field experiments to examine the anti-predatory functions of butterfly colour patterns.
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Jackson Clive
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Jackson uses behavioural ecology and quantitative genetics to study evolutionary change. Previously, he has worked on the genetic basis of sociosexual behaviours in primates. In his current research, he is investigating the impacts of artificial light at night on tropical arthopod diversity, ecology and evolution.
Nur Adawiyah Binte Kamarulzaman
Research Assistant
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
An Alumna from Republic Polytechnic, Adawiyah graduated with a Diploma in Environmental Science. She discovered her passion for nature through her internship at Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum and has been carrying on building up her experience here at TEAL laboratories. She has been helping out with the fieldwork and insect identification work to satisfy her love and interest for insects.
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Janine Soh
Biological Sciences | PhD Candidate
NUS
Janine was a Life Science major who recently graduated in 2023. She specialises in environmental biology and worked on her Final Year Project with Professor Eunice Tan in TEALab. She is currently a PhD student at NUS. The project involves investigating the effect of light pollution on the copulation behaviour of stick insects in hopes of understanding the effect of human activities on insect ecology. She is also particularly interested in conservation biology and ethology. She is fascinated with the diversity of life and enjoys all things nature.
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Lab Affiliates
Jayanthi Puniamoorthy
Collaborator
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
Jayanthi has more than 15 years of training in Entomology and scientific research. Her main research interests are in South East Asian insect diversity, taxonomy and macro ecology. She also has a background in collections, laboratory and project management. She currently manages the lab's insectary and fieldwork. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.Sc. in Life Sciences and is now undertaking a course in Data Analytics.
Mohamad Azlin Bin Sani
Collaborator
Azlin has spent over 10 years in conversation and doing field studies and surveys. He has been involved in various field studies associated with mangroves and tropical rainforests, locally and regionally. His passion for fieldwork had brought him to study trips to Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia on various invertebrate surveys with particular interests in spiders and stick insects.