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A wonderful Japanese summer spent with friends, research, and of course, bugs. Well done everyone who presented at this year's International Congress of Entomology held in Kyoto!
Special feature of Reprolab's first PhD student (now alumni): Dr Yap!
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Visiting students from Thailand came to find Dr. P one fine afternoon. Thank you College of Alice & Peter Tan for organising this!
Good durian (kampung was the favourite!), good company ❤️
Last week flew by with a full schedule of interesting talks and opportunities to connect with like-minded people from both academia and industry. Dr. P is finally winding down from the post-conference madness! Looking forward to seeing everyone again at IFW2026?
Some group photos to kickstart the conference:
Attendees got to try actual insects at the conference! A great way to experience incorporating insects into our diet (PS yes food was good)
Paparazzi shots of Dr. P, students, and our collaborator Dr Moritz Gold taken during their presentations:
Poster presentations from the group:
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the IFW2024 conference tomorrow! Here is the schedule of presentations by our team and our current collaborators.
Click here for the overall IFW2024 schedule. 
Our ex-student Ms Toh Kai Xin came back for a quick walk through our lab spaces with the future members of Reprolab :D So nice to see you Kai Xin! Hope your students from River Valley High School has a good time learning about insects (and the place you spent 3 years of your life in)!
We know that diet influences much of an organism's life history traits, but are there effects on mating? In our latest study using BSFs as our model species, we reveal sex-specific differences in response to a range of diets, and highlight complex interactions between nutrition, development, and reproductive strategies.
Credits to the capable students who have brought this project to fruition: Qihui (PhD), Jielin (Msc), Wells and Keng Hee (undergraduates) . Of course, this couldn't have been done without our RA Yong Jen either. Great work everyone! Find the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.03.583236v1 Comments/suggestions welcomed.
Our MinION vs Illumina paper is out! We carried out DNA metabarcoding of mosquito bulk samples using MinION sequencing and benchmarked the results against the Illumina MiSeq platform, finding high congruency at species level https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fitd.2024.1223435/full Congrats Rebecca (RA) Tyrone (PhD), Huiqing (ex-PhD), annd Tze Xuan (ex-undergradate)!
A glimpse into Reprolab's busy month of February:
1. A festive holiday to kickstart the month! Can't miss doing a louhei for Lunar New Year to welcome prosperity.
2. What better way to mark the start of NUS's recess week than a lab walk? It was a busy hike (especially for the cameras XD) from Kent Ridge Park to Vivo City filled with spiders, Tussock moth caterpillars, and a rewarding dinner at Vivo where we had a farewell dinner for our RA Yong Jen. All the best Yong Jen!
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