CONFERENCES AND TALKS

INVITED TALKS, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

2023 — "Life on the edge: Studying the ecology and population genetics of Norfolk Island land snails" — Norfolk Island Flora and Fauna Society.

2021 — "A preliminary assessment of the impacts of 2019-2020 bushfires on land snails in northern New South Wales" — Forum of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Australia. video

2021 — "Twists and turns — My journey as a biologist" — Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia.

2020 — "The Land Snails of Batu Caves" — Batu Caves Scientific Expedition Symposium, Malaysia. English | Malay | Full symposium

2020 — "Why Limestone Rocks! A journey across Malaysia's limestone karsts" — Have Hope webinar series, Malaysia.

2019 — "Mechanisms of evolution" — (co-presented with Assoc. Prof. Gopalasamy Reuben Clements) Sunway University, Malaysia.

2018 — "Bats, Durians and Malaysians" — (co-presented with Sheema Abdul Aziz) Science Cafe KL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. video

2018 — "Snails, Cement and Conservation: Bridging the science and management of limestone karst biodiversity in Perak" — Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.

2018 — "Research and conservation in the limestone karsts of Peninsular Malaysia" — EcoKnights, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2018 — "Recent insights from land snail research in the limestone karsts of Peninsular Malaysia" — Cave Management Group Cave and Karst Talk 2018, Janda Baik, Malaysia. 

2017 — "Accelerating taxonomic study in a biodiversity hotspot – A taxonomic review of the land snail genus Alycaeus in Peninsular Malaysia" — The 9th Postgraduate Symposium, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

2016 — "Using biogeography of Alycaeus land snails to inform tropical karst conservation in Peninsular Malaysia " — The 8th Postgraduate Symposium, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2023 — "Identifying non-native predators and predation rates of a Critically Endangered land snail on Norfolk Island" — The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Sydney, Australia. Abstract: PDF

2019 — "Strengthening limestone biodiversity conservation in Malaysia through land snail studies and ecosystem mapping" — 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2019): Conservation Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Biodiversity with Communities, Governments and Stakeholders, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Abstract: PDF

2018 — "Taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Alycaeus and other land snails (Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda) in Peninsular Malaysia, with implications for the conservation of tropical karsts" — The 9th Biodiversity Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Abstract: PDF

2018 — "Snails, Cement and Conservation: Bridging the science and management of limestone karst biodiversity in the most extensively quarried landscape in Peninsular Malaysia" — The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC 2018): Linking Natural History and the Conservation of Tomorrow's Tropical Ecosystems, Kuching, Malaysia. Abstract: PDF

2017 — "Recent insights from land snail research in Peninsular Malaysia" — The 8th Biodiversity Seminar, Seremban, Malaysia. Abstract: PDF , Poster (speed talk)

2017 — "Using fine-scale land snail biogeography to improve tropical karst conservation planning in Peninsular Malaysia" — SAGE 2017, The 3rd Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting, Bogor, Indonesia. Abstract: PDF

2016 — "Using phylogenetics and biogeography of Alycaeus snails to inform tropical karst conservation in Malaysia" — World Congress of Malacology 2016, The 19th International Congress of Unitas Malacologica, Penang, Malaysia.   Abstract: PDF