Conferences

Our lab has been to various conferences over the years, underlined names refer to presenter/s.

2023

10th International Crustacean Congress, 22–26 May 2023, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Darren CJ Yeo, D Wowor, PKL Ng. Remoteness revealed: Anambas and Natuna Islands—a microcosm of Southeast Asian freshwater crab diversity.
  • Elysia XP Toh, DJJ Ng & DCJ Yeo. All is not lost: ex-situ and in-situ studies reveal resilience to drought stress in the critically endangered Singapore freshwater crab Johora singaporensis.
  • Zhi Wan Tan, JC Mendoza & DCJ Yeo. Indochinese freshwater crabs of the genus Badistemon: a brief “walk-through” of their taxonomy, with descriptions of new species from Thailand.
  • Bryan Soh, EXP Toh, DJJ Ng & DCJ Yeo. Trophic ecology of freshwater decapods in the last freshwater swamp forest in Singapore.

28th Biological Sciences Graduate Conference, 14–15 December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Minli Wu, YL Goh, MAD Mowe, PA Todd & DCJ Yeo. Ex-situ study of Microplastic entrapment by freshwater macrophytes: Influence of Size, Type.
  • Xue Shen Teo, KS Lai, JTB Kwik, MAD Mowe & DCJ Yeo. Microplastics in the gut content of two freshwater fishes (Geophagus altifrons and Cichla orinocensis) from Singapore water bodies.

Biogeography of Tropical Asia Symposium, 13–15 December 2023, Singapore

  • Zhi Wan Tan. Biogeography of Asian freshwater crabs.

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2022

3rd Philippine Symposium on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystems, 9–11 November 2022, Manila, Philippines

  • CL Wilkinson, JTB Kwik, AMW Ow, RBH Lim, S Liu, CLY Tan, ACY Saw, JH Liew & Darren CJ Yeo. Rehabilitating a tropical urban stormwater drain leads to assembly of a novel fish community.
  • Lam B, Jeffrey TB Kwik, DCJ Yeo. Comparative eco-morphology and the trophic roles of introduced and native snakeheads in Singapore’s urban reservoirs.
  • Maxine AD Mowe, H Choudhary, DKO Lee, KS Lai, Y Zeng, DCJ Yeo. Microplastics in Singapore’s fresh waters: A preliminary assessment of occurrence and possible impacts on freshwater invertebrates.
  • Rayson BH Lim, JH Liew, JTB Kwik, DCJ Yeo. Novel tropical reservoir food webs are resistant to species loss.
  • Ting Hui Ng, WT Lim, LX Gan & DCJ Yeo. Introduced freshwater molluscs of Southeast Asia and an update on the diversity and distribution of freshwater molluscs in Singapore.
  • Shanshan Liu, KS Lai, RBH Lim, JTB Kwik, YL Goh & DCJ Yeo. Macroinvertebrate community composition in urban lakes of Singapore.
  • Kean Sim Lai, MRQ Chua, MAD Mowe & DCJ Yeo. Distribution and abundance of microplastics in Singapore freshwater sediments, with an assessment of microplastic update by the gastropod Melanoides tuberculata.
  • Yi Le Goh, ACY Saw, MAD Mowe, JTB Kwik, DCJ Yeo. Plankton communities of urbanized freshwater reservoirs in Singapore.
  • Lydia X Gan, CLY Tan, AB Ahmad, Y Cai & DCJ Yeo. Land-use change negatively affects Macrobrachium shrimp assemblages in tropical freshwater streams.
  • Elysia XP Toh, LX Gan & DCJ Yeo. Land-use change negatively affects Macrobrachium shrimp assemblages in tropical freshwater streams
  • Tricia JY Cho, RMW Chan, DJJ Ng & DCJ Yeo. Non-native frog species in Singapore, with baseline information of the latest introduction, the Greenhouse frog Eleutherodactylus planirostris. 
  • Zhi Wan Tan, JC Menodza & DCJ Yeo. Diversity and systematics of the potamid freshwater crabs of Thailand.

36th Congress of the International Society for Limnology (SIL), 8–10 August 2022, Berlin, Germany

  • Maxine AD Mowe

The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting, 6–7 June 2022, Online (Santos, Brazil)

  • Boyang Shi
  • Zhong K, Elysia XP Toh & DCJ Yeo. Investigating impact potential and invasion risk of non-native crayfishes in tropical fresh waters.

22nd International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS), 18–22 April 2022, Online (Oostende, Belgium)

  • Darren CJ Yeo

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2021

26th Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 14–16 December 2021, Singapore

  • Elysia XP Toh, DJJ Ng & DCJ Yeo. Freshwater acidification affects foraging in freshwater crabs from Singapore.

European Congress of Malacological Societies, 5–9 September 2021, Online

  • Ting Hui Ng

Changing the World: Environmental Breakdown and Natural Science collections—Natural Sciences Collections Association Online Conference, 27–28 May 2021, Online

  • Ting Hui Ng

2021 American Institute for Conservation/Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections Joint Virtual Annual Meeting, 10 May – 24 June 2021, Online

  • Ting Hui Ng

Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 12–14 April 2021, Online

  • Ting Hui Ng

8th National Malacological Convention of the Malacological Society of the Philippines, 17–20 March 2021, Online

  • Ting Hui Ng

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2019

24th Biological Sciences Graduate Congress 2019, 19-21 Dec 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Kenny WJ Chua, Liew JH, LIM F KS, Shin KH, Wilkinson CL, Amirrudin A, Tan HH & DCJ Yeo. Mechanisms and impacts of land-use change on freshwater fishes in Sundaland.
  • Lydia X Gan, Claudia LY Tan, Cai YX, Amirrudin A, DCJ Yeo. Anthropogenic impacts on freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium: Palaemonidae) distribution in southern Peninsular Malaysia.
International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species 2019, 27-31 Oct 2019, Montreal, Canada
  • Kenny WJ Chua, Zeng Y & DCJ Yeo. Habitat degradation promotes exotic fish occurences in tropical forest streams.
  • Ng J XH, Chua KWJ, Zeng Y, Claudia LY Tan & Darren CJ Yeo, A non-native freshwater prawn’s (Macrobrachium nipponense) impact on tropical forest stream macroinvertebrate communities.
The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2019, 26-30 May 2019, Hong Kong
  • Lydia X Gan, DCJ Yeo. Conservation of Macrobrachium (Palaemonidae) in Southeast Asia tropical streams—a Singapore case study
  • Zeng Y, Shakir KK, Darren CJ Yeo. Spread, Impacts, and risks of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Science at SAFE, 27–29 March 2019, London, United Kingdom
  • Clare L Wilkinson, DCJ Yeo, HH Tan & R Ewers. The impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater fish communities in Sabah and current protection mechanisms.
6th Fresh Blood for Fresh Water Conference, 23–27 April, Tihany, Hungary
  • Clare L Wilkinson, JH Liew & DCJ Yeo.Impacts of catchment land use change on trophic ecology.
  • Clare L Wilkinson, JTB Kwik, RBH Lim, ACY Saw, SS Liu, CLY Tan & DCJ Yeo. The impacts of rehabilitating an urban waterway on freshwater fish and trophic ecology in Singapore. Poster Presentation.
  • Claudia LY Tan, CL Wilkinson, RBH Lim, JTB Kwik, ACY Saw, SS Liu, JH Liew & DCJ Yeo. Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on aquatic food webs in Singapore’s reservoirs. Participants’ Favourite Talk (runner-up)

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2018

15th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants, 18–23 February 2018, Queenstown, New Zealand

  • Darren ZH Sim, MAD Mowe, Y Song, J Lu, HTW Tan, SM Mitrovic & DCJ Yeo. Inducing a clear water shift using a novel combination of macrophytes: a tropical mesocosm study.
  • MAD Mowe, Yiluan Song, DZH Sim, J Lu, SM Mitrovic, HTW Tan & DCJ Yeo. Effects of emergent macrophytes on the phytoplankton community of a tropical reservoir: a mesocosm study.
55th Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology & Conservation, 1–5 July 2018, Kuching, Malaysia
  • Clare Wilkinson, DCJ Yeo, HH Tan & R Ewers. Freshwater fish suffer large reductions in species and functional richness while maintaining provisioning ecosystem service across a land use gradient in Borneo.
  • Jia Huan Liew & DCJ Yeo. Freshwater food webs in the tropics.
  • Kenny WJ Chua, JH Liew, A Ahmad & DCJ Yeo. Fish diversity loss affects ecosystem functioning in Southeast Asian fresh waters: impacts on nutrient cycling and trophic energy flows.
  • Movin Nyanasengeran, BW Low, & DCJ Yeo. Revisiting paradigms: Can anthropogenically-formed forest pools provide refugia for threatened freshwater biodiversity?
International Society of Limnology XXXIV Congress, 19–24 July 2018, Nanjing, China
  • Kenny WJ Chua, JH Liew, A Ahmad & DCJ Yeo. The biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in Southeast Asian fresh waters: evidence and mechanisms.
  • Jia Huan Liew, TD Jardine, RBH Lim, JTB Kwik, HH Tan, ZY Kho, & DCJ Yeo. Natural and anthropogenic drivers of freshwater food web structure: reconciling theory with empirical evidence.
  • C Porojan, F Abbas, Maxine AD Mowe, SM Mitrovic, RP Lim, DCJ Yeo & A Furey. Environmental correlates to cyanotoxins in tropical lentic waters.
International Postgraduate Conference on Biotechnology 2018, 27–29 August 2018, Terengganu, Malaysia
  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Life-history strategies of tropical Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae).
Marine and Freshwater Invasive Species Conference, 27–29 August 2018, Beijing, China
  • Claudia LY Tan, AR Hsiung, Y Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Can alien Macrobrachium nipponense (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) become a threat in a native stronghold habitat?
  • Y Zeng, J Chan, S Yeo, K Chua, HH Tan & Darren CJ Yeo. Risky business: Assessing potential invasions from the ornamental fish industry in Singapore.
  • Darren CJ Yeo. Singapore as a Southeast Asian case study for aquatic invasive species research.
  • Yiwen Zeng, KWJ Chua & DCJ Yeo. Stemming the spread: Trophic complexity regulates fish invasion into Singapore’s forest streams.
  • Yiwen Zeng, KWJ Chua, CLY Tan, KK Shakir, RCQ Tan & DCJ Yeo. Drivers of spread and impacts of freshwater non-indigenous species in a tropical city.
Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference, 7–11 October 2018, Melbourne, Australia
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, JWJ Chang, BW Low, JH Liew, CLY Tan & DCJ Yeo. Distribution, ecology and potential establishment of the non-native ocellate river stingray Potamotrygon motoro (Potamotrygonidae).
2nd Philippine Symposium on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystems, 11–14 December 2018, Diliman, Philippines
  • Bi Wei Low, FE Rheindt, A Suvarnaraksha, HH Tan, A Ahmad & DCJ Yeo. From the heart of Africa: the landscape genomics of the invasive African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, in Southeast Asia.
  • Clare Wilkinson, DCJ Yeo, HH Tan & R Ewers. The impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater fish communities in Sabah and current protection mechanisms.
  • Darren CJ Yeo. Aquatic alien species research in Singapore.
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, AMW Ow, RBH Lim, SS Liu, ACY Saw, CLY Tan & DCJ Yeo. Biodiversity and ecology of the fish community in a rehabilitated urban waterway in Singapore.
  • Jia Huan Liew, RBH Lim & DCJ Yeo. Impacts of habitat modification on freshwater food webs.
  • Kenny WJ Chua, A Ahmad & DCJ Yeo. Ichthyofaunal responses to anthropogenic disturbances in fresh waters of Sundaland: a functional trait perspective. Best Student Oral Presentation
  • Maxine AD Mowe, DZH Sim, Y Song, J Lu, SM Mitrovic, HTW Tan & DCJ Yeo. Restoration of a tropical reservoir using aquatic macrophytes: Does scale matter?
  • Yiwen Zeng, M Nyanasengeran & DCJ Yeo. Leaf litter species influence the regulation of tropical stream assemblages.
23rd Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 18–20 December 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Darren ZH Sim, MAD Mowe, Y Song, J Lu, SM Mitrovic, HTW Tan & DCJ Yeo. Macrophytes influence phytoplankton community structure in a tropical reservoir: allelopathy as a potential mechanism.
    Runner-Up for Best Oral Presentation (Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Biology Category)

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2017

The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2017, 19–22 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain

  • Darren CJ Yeo & Zeng Y. Climate change increases the risk of invasive crayfish impacts on freshwater crabs in Southeast Asia.
Aquatic Invasive Alien Species in Southeast Asia Symposium, 26–27 July 2017, Singapore
  • Darren ZH Sim & DCJ Yeo. Friend or foe: Exotic aquatic macrophytes in tropical lakes.
  • Darren CJ Yeo. Investigating the ecology of invasive alien species in Singapore’s fresh waters.
  • Yiwen Zeng, RCQ Tan, KK Shakir & DCJ Yeo. The Singapore crayfish story: understanding the drivers and impacts of the Cherax quadricarinatus invasion.
Annual Meeting of the Asian Society of Icthyologists 2017, 22–24 August 2017, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Kenny WJ Chua & DCJ Yeo. Functional diversity and vulnerability of freshwater fishes in Sundaland: making fair comparisons across unevenly sampled ecoregions.
Third International Conference on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution, 28 August–1 September 2017, Bogor, Indonesia
  • Rebecca K Loh, NKM Lim, DCJ Yeo & R Meier. Environmental DNA signatures in two Singapore reservoirs across time.
  • Bi Wei Low, JH Liew, A Ahmad, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Stranger in the house: invasive African sharptooth catfish have displaced native counterparts in the Malay Peninsula.
  • JH Liew, JTB Kwik, RBH Lim & Darren CJ Yeo. Biodiversity and food webs in Singapore: novel assemblages in natural patterns.
  • Yiwen Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Spatial patterns of Southeast Asian freshwater crabs: assessing vulnerability to invasive alien species and climate change.
The 8th Asian Pacific Phycological Forum, 8–13 October 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Raphidophyte bloom potential in the tropics.
20th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, 22–26 October 2017, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  • DCJ Yeo. Aquatic invasive species in Singapore: Perspectives from a highly urbanised tropical city.
  • Yiwen Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Understanding the drivers and impacts of Cherax quadricarinatus invasion in Singapore.
10th Annual Conference of the Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society (ABNMS2017), 20–23 November 2017, Melbourne, Australia
  • Rayson BH Lim, JH Liew, JTB Kwik & DCJ Yeo. Integrative approach in aquatic food web management using stable isotopes and Bayesian Belief Network.
22nd Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 19–21 December 2017, Singapore
  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Potential survival strategy of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) under tropical conditions.
  • Rayson BH Lim, JH Liew, JTB Kwik & DCJ Yeo. Using Bayesian Belief Network for food web biomanipulation: prediction, validation, and management. Runner-Up for Best Oral Presentation (Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Biology Category)

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2016
International Conference on Life Science and Engineering, 8–10 March 2016, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Jun Yi Loh, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Physiological response of a tropical strain of red tide species, Prorocentrum micans (Prorocentraceae), to changes in nutrient concentration and light intensity. Poster Presentation.
  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Morphological responses to dark-conditions at ambient and low temperatures in a tropical strain of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae).
IsoEcol 2016: 10th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies,
3–8 April 2016, Tokyo, Japan
  • Jia Huan Liew, TD Jardine, HH Tan, RBH Lim, & DCJ Yeo. Constructing robust food webs using gut contents, δ13C and δ15N isotopes and predator-exclusion experiments.
Marine & Freshwater Invasive Species: Ecology, Impact and Management, 2–4 May 2016, Bueno Aires, Argentina
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, ML Chen, YYW Kwang, JH Liew, WQ Ng, RBH Lim, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Novel cichlid-dominated fish communities in tropical urban reservoirs within Southeast Asia.
  • Jia Huan Liew, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Dammed rivers: Habitat conversion creates invasion opportunities.
  • Darren CJ Yeo, TH Ng, Y Zeng, BW Low, JTB Kwik, HH Tan, Z Jaafar & SLM Teo. Pathways of aquatic invasive species introduction in Singapore.
  • Yiwen Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Selecting environmental variables in MaxEnt for predictions of invasive crayfish spread.
ECOspeak 2016 – Managing Invasive Species in the Tropics – North Queensland and South East Asia, 3 June 2016, Singapore
  • Darren CJ Yeo. Introduced aquatic species in highly urbanised tropical cities: an overview of Singapore’s situation.
4th National Tsing Hua University-National University of Singapore Bilateral Meeting, 18–20 May 2016, Pingtung, Taiwan
  • Darren CJ Yeo. Aquatic invasive species in Singapore.
1st Philippine Freshwater Symposium on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystems, 7–10 June 2016, Manila, Philippines
  • Ming Li Chen, JTB Kwik, BW Low, JH Liew, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Diet of the Mayan cichlid, Cichlasoma urophthalmum, an established non-native fish in Singapore.
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, ML Chen, YYW Kwang, JH Liew, WQ Ng, RBH Lim, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Electrofishing as an effective method for quantitative assessments of fish communities in the reservoirs in Singapore.
  • JH Liew, TD Jardine, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Planktonic production limiting in allochthony-supplemented tropical communities.
  • Bi Wei Low, HH Tan, HH Ng & DCJ Yeo. A complex issue: taxonomic clarification of ‘Clarias batrachus’ in Southeast Asia.
    Best Student Oral Presentation
  • Maxine AD Mowe, F Abbas, C Porojan, SM Mitovic, RP Lim, A Furey, PA Todd & DCJ Yeo. Comparing ex-situ and in-situ growth and toxin cell quotas of tropical Microcystis ichthyoblabe: How applicable are laboratory studies to field conditions?
  • Ting Hui Ng, JH Liew, JZE Song & DCJ Yeo. Missed and misidentified: the Florida serrate crownsnail, a new cryptic invader in tropical Asian freshwaters.
  • Clare Wilkinson, R Ewers, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo.There’s something fishy going on: How does land use affect freshwater fish communities in Sabah, Borneo?
  • Darren CJ Yeo, Y Zeng, DJJ Ng, KWJ Chua & CLY Tan. Diversity, ecology, and conservation of decapod crustaceans in Singapore freshwater systems.
Conservation Asia 2016: Sustainable Landscapes for People, Business and Biodiversity, 29 June–2 July 2016, Singapore
  • Kenny WJ Chua, Y Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Natural forest streams resist invasions from introduced fishes in artificial reservoirs.
  • Nicholas KM Lim, YC Tay, A Srivathsan, JWT Tan, R Meier & DCJ Yeo. Biodiversity monitoring of freshwater environments via water eDNA.
  • Rayson BH Lim, E Clews & DCJ Yeo. Investigating the influence of macroinvertebrates on leaf litter decomposition in tropical forest streams.
  • Clare Wilkinson, R Ewers, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. How does land use have an impact on tropical freshwater fish diversity, community composition and biomass in Sabah, Borneo?
  • Darren CJ Yeo, Y Zeng & CLY Tan. Aquatic alien species in Singapore’s native biodiversity strongholds.
The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2016, 11–13 July 2016, Singapore
  • Khaizar K Shakir, Y Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Potential effects of non-native crayfish on a native freshwater crab in Singapore. Poster Presentation.
    Best Student Poster Presentation
  • Claudia LY Tan, Y Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Ecological and behavioural interactions between an alien and native freshwater shrimp (Decapoda: Palaemonidae).
    Best Student Oral Presentation
World Congress of Malacology, 18–24 July 2016, Penang, Malaysia
  • Rebecca K Loh, SK Tan & R Meier. Short DNA barcodes: A valuable, low-cost tool for studying gastropod taxonomy and biology.
  • Ting Hui Ng, SK Tan, A Ahmad, DV Tu, JK Foon, RC Joshi & DCJ Yeo. Vanishing before our eyes: Native freshwater apple snails Pila spp. (Ampullariidae) of Southeast Asia.
10th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, Oct 23–28 2016, Wuhan, China
  • Maxine AD Mowe, F Abbas, C Porojan, SM Mitovic, RP Lim, A Furey & DCJ Yeo. Constrasting effects of light intensity on growth and MC cell quotas of tropical Microcystis isolates from Singapore.
Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 15–16 December 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Ting Hui Ng & DCJ Yeo. Eaten out of house and home? Southeast Asian Pila scutata (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) impacted by globally-invasive apple snails Pomacea spp.

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2015

The Crustacean Society and International Association of Astacology 2015 Mid-Year Meeting (TCS IAA 2015), 19–23 July 2015, Sydney, Australia

  • CLY Tan, Y Zeng & Darren CJ Yeo. Effects of climatic warming and pH on the survival of a native and an alien freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium spp.).

Biodiversity of Singapore Symposium IV, 1 Aug 2015, Singapore.

  • Ting Hui Ng, SK Tan & DCJ Yeo. Invading incognito—Introduced freshwater snails of Singapore.
  • Wen Qing Ng, ML Chen, Y Kwang, JH Liew, RBH Lim, HH Tan, JTB Kwik & DCJ Yeo. Biodiversity and ecological studies in the reservoirs of Singapore.
  • Joleen Chan, DCJ Yeo & Y Zeng. Invasive species risk assessment for non-native freshwater fishes in Singapore. Poster presentation.
  • Yvonne Kwang & DCJ Yeo. Investigating Singapore’s native and introduced freshwater biodiversity. Poster presentation.
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, DCJ Yeo, HH Tan, BW Low, JH Liew & ML Chen. Diet of Cichlasoma urophthalmum, an established non-native fish in Singapore. Poster presentation.

12th Annual Meeting of the Asia Ocenia Geosciences Society, 2–7 Aug 2015, Singapore

  • JKI Ho, HH Tan & Darren CJ Yeo. Fish distribution patterns within Singapore’s last freshwater swamp forest—a bulwark of native biodiversity, but for how much longer?
  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Auto-inhibition effects of a Chattonella strain isolated from Singapore waters under N-refeeding regime.

Asian Fish Biodiversity Conference, 21–24 Aug 2015, Guilin, China

  • Jonathan KI Ho, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Fish distribution patterns within Singapore’s last freshwater swamp forest—A bulwark of native biodiversity.

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2014

18th Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 6–8 Jan 2014, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • HH Ng, Bi Wei Low, JTB Kwik & DCJ Yeo. The tables are turned: an invasive species under potential threat.
  • Ting Hui Ng, SK Tan, MEY Low, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. One or more bad apples? Native, introduced, and cryptogenic Ampullariidae (Gastropoda) of Singapore.

Asian Fish Biodiversity Conference, 12–13 Feb 2014, Penang, Malaysia

  • Bi Wei Low, HH Ng, JTB Kwik, HH Tan, & DCJ Yeo. The tables are turned: an invasive species under potential threat. Best Student Oral Presentation

Climate Change Adaptation: Aquatic Invasive Species-Coastal Restoration Symposium, 26–27 Feb 2014, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore

  • ESM Chong, SLM Teo & Darren CJ Yeo. Potential ballast water invasive species in Singapore and the South China Sea.
  • LTP Nghiem, T Soliman, Darren CJ Yeo, HTW Tan, TA Evans, JD Mumford, RP Keller, RHA Baker, RT Corlett & LR Carrasco. Economic and environmental impacts of harmful non-indigenous species in Southeast Asia.
  • Yiwen Zeng, KY Chong, EK Grey, DM Lodge & DCJ Yeo. Human pre-introduction selection can confound invasive crayfish risk assessments.

8th International Crustacean Conference, 18–23 Aug 2014, Frankfurt, Germany

  • Kenny WJ Chua, DJJ Ng, Y Zeng & DCJ Yeo. Habitat characterization of freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) in Singapore. Best Student Oral Presentation
  • Daniel JJ Ng, Y Cai & DCJ Yeo. Potential impacts of prolonged drought on a highly threatened crab Johora singaporensis.
  • Darren CJ Yeo, S Luz, Y Cai, N Cumberlidge, PJK McGowan, DJJ Ng, R Raghavan, N Sivasothi, GWH Davison, PBQ Lee & J Chua. Conservation first: strategic planning to save the critically endangered Singapore freshwater crab, Johora singaporensis.
  • Zeng Yiwen & DCJ Yeo. Global review of freshwater decapod introductions.

Isotope Ecology Conference (IsoEcol), 3–8 Aug 2014, Perth, Australia

  • JLJ Tay, Jia Huan Liew, TD Jardine & DCJ Yeo.Bottom up effect of riparian land-use on littoral invertebrate community and trophic structure.

28th Annual Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany (ASPAB) Meeting, 28–30 Oct 2014, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Maxine AD Mowe, C Porojan, F Abbas, SM Mitrovic, RP Lim, A Furey & DCJ Yeo. Effects of temperature on the growth and toxin production of Microcystis ichthyoblabe and M. flos-aquae isolated from tropical Singapore.
     Best Student Oral Presentation

16th International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA), 27–31 Oct 2014, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Maxine AD Mowe, C Porojan, F Abbas, SM Mitrovic, RP Lim, A Furey & DCJ Yeo. Effects of light and nutrients on the growth and toxin production of Microcystis ichthyoblabe and M. flos-aquae isolated from a tropical island, Singapore. Poster presentation.

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2013

Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation, Asia-Pacific Chapter Annual Meeting 2013, 18–22 Mar 2013, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

  • Daniel JJ Ng, DCJ Yeo, N Sivasothi & PKL Ng. Conservation challenges and efforts for a conservation icon – the critically endangered freshwater crab, Johora singaporensis.

International Conference on Challenges in Aquatic Sciences, 15–21 Mar 2013, Keelung, Taiwan

  • Jia Huan Liew, Tan HH, Yeo DCJ (2013) Aquatic food webs of lentic habitats in Southeast Asia.
  • Bi Wei Low, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. To each his own: evidence that ontogenetic dietary shifts in native and introduced Trichopodus gouramies facilitate coexistence.
  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, RP Quek & DCJ Yeo. Tropical natural freshwater streams: the last refuge for native fishes in an urbanised country.
  • Maxine AD Mowe, SM Mitrovic, RP Lim, A Furey & DCJ Yeo. Tropical cyanobacterial blooms : a review of prevalence, problem taxa, toxin production and causes.
  • Ting Hui Ng, SK Tan, SY Chan, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Freshwater molluscs in the aquarium trade and the implications for conservation.
  • Darren CJ Yeo, E Clews, KYW Tan & HH Tan. Dammed if we do, dammed if we don’t: inevitable biotic changes in urbanised fresh waters.
  • Yiwen Zeng, KY Chong & DCJ Yeo. Pre-introduction selection of traits in crayfish: forgotten factors in trait-based assessments of invasives.

2nd International Congress on Biological Invasions, 23–27 October 2013, Qingdao, China

  • Jeffrey TB Kwik, ZY Kho, BS Quek, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Urban stormwater ponds in Singapore: potential pathways for spread of alien freshwater fishes.

PD 2013: International Conference on Sustainable Development of Tropical Coastal Zones-A Case Study of Port Dickson’s Marine Ecosystem

  • Jerome WK Kok, DCJ Yeo & SCY Leong. Changes in growth rates and nutrient characteristics of Singapore strain of Heterosigma sp. in response to varying nitrogen sources.

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2012

Second Conference for Regional Cooperation in Ocean and Earth Science Research in the South China Sea, 21–24 Oct 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • ESM Chong, SLM Teo & Darren CJ Yeo. Potential incoming ballast-transported invasive species to the South China Sea.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2012, 3–7 December 2012, San Francisco, USA

  • Mason O Stahl, MH Tarek, B Badruzzaman, DCJ Yeo & CF Harvey. Crab burrows as a short-circuit path for surface water input to Bangladeshi aquifers: results from water and stable isotope balances.

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2011

16th Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, 12–13 Dec 2011, NUS, Singapore

  • Jia Huan Liew, TH Ng, YYW Kwang, HH Tan & DCJ Yeo. Ecology of introduced fishes in Singapore’s fresh waters.
  • Maxine AD Mowe, SM Mitrovic, & DCJ Yeo. Cyanobacteria blooms in Southeast Asian fresh waters.

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2010

7th International Crustacean Congress, June 20–25 2010, Qingdao, China

  • Darren CJ Yeo, PKL Ng & SLM Teo. Pathways of alien crustacean introduction into Singapore.
  • N Cumberlidge, PKL Ng, Darren CJ Yeo, T Naruse & LJ Esser. Diversity, endemism, and conservation of the freshwater crabs of tropical Asia with special reference to China.
  • Darren CJ Yeo, Naruse T , XQ Nguyen & PKL Ng. Recent developments in Vietnamese freshwater crab taxonomy (Decapoda: Brachyura).

5th International Conference on Ballast Water Management, 1–4 Nov 2010, Singapore

  • Darren CJ Yeo & PKL Ng. Semisubmersible oil platforms: a major vector of invasions from biofouling?

International Senckenberg Conference on the Biology of Freshwater Decapods, 8–10 Dec 2010, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Darren CJ Yeo, D Wowor & PKL Ng. On the freshwater and terrestrial crabs of Pulau Natuna Besar, Indonesia.
  • Sammy De Grave, DCJ Yeo, C Magalhães, N Cumberlidge, KA Crandall & PKL Ng. Global trends in the description of freshwater Decapoda, 1758–2010.

Singapore International Water Week 2010, Singapore

  • Ting Hui Ng, KKP Lim & DCJ Yeo. Amphibians and aquatic reptiles of Singapore’s reservoirs. Poster presentation.

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