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Anker,
Authur
Victor
R. Alekseev
Bahir,
Mohomed
Benayahu,
Yehuda
Chen
Hui-Lian
Corlett,
Richard
Das,
Indraneil
de
Pinna, M
Fernando,
C.H.
Guinot,
Daniele
Jayne,
Bruce
Karns,
Daryl
Kottelat,
Maurice
Larson,
Helen
Lheknim,
Vachira
Liao,
Lawrence
Liu
Riu-Yu
Panha,
Somsak
Rachmatika,
Ike
Rahayu,
Dwi Listyo
Schubart,
Christoph
Siebert,
Darrell
Song
Daxiong
Voris,
Harold
Wu
Sugong
Zettel,
Herbert
(Formerly of University of Southern California,
USA)
August 1999 - February 2000
Host: A/P Peter Ng
(NUS Short-term Research Fellow)
Dr. Christoph Schubart completed his PhD thesis
in 1997 at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, on the ecophysiology,
morphology, and molecular phylogeny of American crabs of the genus
Sesarma, in the Sesarminae family of crabs.
These crabs, which populate the Indo-Pacific
mangroves in great diversity, have presented a well known but
particularly complex problem to scientists and Christoph's presence
here is one step towards solving this problem.
He is attached to the Dept of Biological Sciences
on a short-term fellowship until February 2000, to work on the
molecular systematics of Indo-Pacific mangrove crabs. Christoph's
other research interests include evolution and ecology, molecular
phylogeny and population genetics.
Having written over 20 papers mainly on the Atlantic
Sesarminae in leading international journals and now a reviewer
for these journals, Christoph is presently turning his attention
Indo-Pacific members of the family.
 He
has already conducted field trips to several locations in Singapore
mangroves such as Sungei Buloh, Mandai Besar, Mandai Kechil and
Pasir Ris. He has also visited Thailand, Taiwan and will be going
to Sulawesi, all in pursuit of crabs! While in Taiwan, he and
a postgraduate student, Ng Ngan Kee, were lucky to have just travelled
southeast to the island of Lan Yü, hence avoiding the devastating
earthquake that struck the central county of Nantou on 21st September,
1999, measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale!
Here with his wife and three children, Christoph
will be collaborating with other scientists, research fellows
and students on the methodologies and techniques of the not just
the systematics of crabs, but also, how to catch them!
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