Hi all,
Please use this registration form instead -
http://tinyurl.com/fos80-peterngtalk

It is a simpler one which requires just name and email address.
I will let the faculty know the numbers and names of those coming.

Cheerio!

Sivasothi

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM, N. Sivasothi <sivasothi@...> wrote:

> ³Life as a Sanctioned Professional Killer²
> by Prof Peter KL Ng
> In conjunction with NUS Faculty of Science¹s 80th anniversary celebrations
>
> Prof Peter KL Ng, Director of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research,
> has in recent years become deeply involved in environmental and
> conservation
> biology. In the field of biodiversity science, the killing and preservation
> of animal specimens for research is an integral part of the discipline. If
> a
> biologist's desire is to conserve - how should this need to kill be
> rationalized? An engaging and charismatic speaker, he will explore this
> seemingly conflicting aspects of his work and leave you with some answers
> and probably, as is his style, more questions!
>
> Saturday 7th March 2009: 4pm ­ 5pm
> Venue: LT 31 NUS Faculty of Science (next to Science Canteen)
> Free Admission
>
> How to get there:
> Take SBS Bus 95 from Buona Vista MRT station.
> Drop off at the second stop after the bus turns in to NUH/NUS.
> See map: http://tinyurl.com/nuslt31
>
> Registration required; please sign up at:
> http://www.nipunaperera.com/naf09/other_event.php?o_id=4
>
> ABSTRACT - In the field of biodiversity science, the killing and
> preservation of animal specimens for research is an integral part of the
> discipline. This is all the more so in systematics, which is my forte. In
> the 25 years I have been in this field, thousands of crustaceans, fish and
> other animals have been killed in the name of ¹science¹, and as a
> university
> professor, I have given my blessings to dozens of students and colleagues
> to
> kill even more. Does that make me a mass murderer? And what has this
> killing
> achieved in my discipline? How does this scale of scientific killing
> correlate with the so called Œbiodiversity crisis¹ facing the planet in
> which thousands of species are under threat of extinction? If a biologist¹s
> desire is to conserve how we rationalize with this need to kill? In a wide
> ranging talk, these seemingly conflicting aspects will be discussed and
> hopefully, clarified.
>
> BIOGRAPHY - Prof Peter Ng worked on his PhD at the National University of
> Singapore part-time while still an education officer with the Ministry of
> Education in the 1980s. He joined the then Department of Zoology in 1990,
> and has been involved in biodiversity and systematics research, primarily
> with crabs and fish over the last 17 years. Recognised as a international
> taxonomic expert on these groups, he also works on a wide variety of
> different biodiversity issues and has become deeply involved in
> environmental and conservation biology. He is on the editorial board of
> over
> a dozen international journals, as well as being a member of numerous
> international biological organizations, notably the International
> Commission
> for Zoological Nomenclature. He is now director of both the Raffles Museum
> of Biodiversity Research and the Tropical Marine Science Institute at NUS.
>
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