The Backbone

Dr. Zeehan Jaafar, Postdoctoral Fellow, arrives in Division of Fishes

 

Zeehan Jaafar, ready for a dive, Bintan Island, Indonesia.

We welcome Zeehan Jaafar from the National University of Singapore to the Division of Fishes for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. During her stint here, Zeehan will be studying the evolution and phylogeny of mangrove-related gobioid fishes, in part with Fish Curator Lynne Parenti.  Zeehan is funded by the National University of Singapore and also received a scholarship from MENDAKI, an organization for minority groups in Singapore; portions of her research are also being funded by the Division of Fishes.  Zeehan is no stranger to the Fish Division; she was here for a month in 2008 supported by the Division’s Leonard P. Schultz Fund and visited this past May en route to teaching a course in Costa Rica.

 

Collection Program Technician Team to Join VZ Curation Projects

The Collection Program Technician Team. From left: Amanda Lawrence, Julie Hoskin, Jennifer Strotman, Erin Bilyeu, Laura Tancredi, Barbara Dasheiff. Photo: Diane Pitassy

The six members of Collections Program Technician team (CPT) will be lending their much appreciated assistance to various projects within the Department of Vertebrate Zoology over the next four years. The team mission is to accelerate digitization efforts across the museum and improve the physical care of collections both at NHB and MSC. Paul Kimberly of the ADS Office will be supervising the team. To give Department staff a little background on our new museum colleagues, each team member has provided a short professional bio. Please welcome them to our community!