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Six graduate students, Alfred Kase, Amida Diwata Macansantos, Rio A. Naguit, Edna Sabater, Wilson Tisera, and Billy Wagey completed a 5-day training course on Basic Techniques and Analysis Programs in Molecular Population Genetics held at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the World Fish Center in Penang, Malaysia on Feb 13-17. Trainors were Dr. Ma. Carmen A. Ablan, Amelia Goh Hui Xin and Nicole The Sih Win. They were accompanied by Dr. Hilconida P Calumpong, Director of the SU Marine Laboratory and Professor of Biology, Dr. Janet Estacion, Asst. Director of SUML and Assoc. Professor of Biology, and Paulina Suarez-Aspilla, Asst. Professor of the Chemistry Department. The students attended the course as part of their population genetics class and to gain skills in molecular techniques and analysis in preparation for their theses. Calumpong, Estacion and Aspilla validated molecular methods with Dr. Ablan as part of their collaborative project entitled Fully Protected Marine Reserves in the Bohol Sea: How to Make them Sustainable for Food Security funded by the Commission on Higher Education Grant in Aid through the Zonal Research Center.

L-R, Front Row: Dr. Janet Estacion Billy Wagey, Amida Diwata Macansantos, Rio Naguit, Dr. Ma. Carmen Ablan, Nicole The Sih Win, Amelia Goh Hui Xin.
L-R, Back Row: Edna Sabater, Paulina Suarez-Aspilla, Wilson Tisera, Alfred Kase. Photo by H. Calumpong.
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