YIP Zhi Ting Research Associate Email: dbsyzt(AT)nus.edu.sg

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Academic History

B.Sc. (Hons) in Life Sciences, specializing in Environmental Biology and Minor in Aquatic Ecology (NUS, 2018)
M.Sc. in Biological Sciences (2024)

Bio and Research Interests

My research interests lie broadly in marine biodiversity and ecology. My undergraduate research projects involved reassessing the diversity of Sargassum macroalgae in Singapore using molecular phylogenetic analyses as well as studying the evolutionary relationships between Sargassum species and their biogeographic history. This was done by reconstructing a global phylogeny of the macroalgal genus, and was important because Sargassum diversity reassessments had only been carried out in geographic isolation. My current work focuses on the spatiotemporal monitoring of marine metazoans in Singapore using environmental DNA (eDNA). I hope to gain a more comprehensive understanding of community-level shifts in diversity over time with climate change.