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Revision as of 17:05, 9 February 2015
Susan Lim Lee Hong | |
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 Susan Lim in 2003 | |
| Born | February 14, 1952 |
| Died | August 2, 2014 |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Alma mater | University of Malaya |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Parasitology |
| Institutions | University of Malaya |
Lee Hong Susan Lim (1952 – 2014), more commonly known as Susan Lim, was a Malaysian parasitologist who specialised on the Monogenea, a class of parasitic flatworms which are important ectoparasites of fishes. She was the first and only Malaysian commissioner elected to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Her research was mainly in the fields of taxonomy and faunistics, although in later years, she became involved in a wide range of parasitological disciplines.[1][2][3]
She has been considered the leading monogenean specialist South-East Asia.[4] By describing more than 100 new species and reassigning more than 100 others, she became the sixth most productive monogenean worker (and foremost female worker) of all time.[4] She is also noted for describing an entirely new attachment mechanism in the form of net-like structures formed by secretions from the haptor of some of her worms.[5][6][7]
Susan Lim died from cancer in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, on August 2, 2014, after a long illness.
Education and career
Susan Lim was born at Seremban in the State of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, on February 14, 1952. She received her early education in the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Seremban, and completed her 6th Form studies at St Pauls Institution, Seremban.[8] In 1971 she entered the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur to read Zoology. She remained at the same university for her MSc and PhD degrees, funding her studies as a university tutor. Her PhD,[9] under the supervision of Prof. Jose I. Furtado, was on monogenean parasites of freshwater fishes and was completed in 1987. In 1989, she was awarded a lectureship in the same department and in 2003 was promoted to a full professor in the Institute of Biological Sciences. Susan Lim had numerous postgraduate students and strong international collaborations with specialists in her field.[4]
Awards and honours
- Full Professorship, University of Malaya, 2003 [4][8]
- Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2006–2014 (the only Malaysian ever elected)[4]
- Life-membership of the Malaysian Society of Parasitology & Tropical Medicine, 2009.
Personal life
Susan Lim married George Liew, a botanist, in 1979 and had two children.[4]
Eponymous taxa
The following species of monogeneans were named in her honour:
- Calydiscoides limae Justine & Brena, 2009
- Cornudiscoides susanae Agrawal & Vishwakarma, 1996
- Dactylogyrus limae Timofeeva, Gerasev & Gibson, 1996
- Dactylogyrus limleehongae Gusev, 1985
References
- ^ Stekel, Dov Joseph; Teo, Bee Guan; Dhillon, Sarinder Kaur; Lim, Lee Hong Susan (2013). "A deformable generic 3D Model of haptoral anchor of monogenean". PLoS ONE. 8 (10): e77650. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077650. ISSN 1932-6203.
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- ^ Broughton, Vanda; Sarinder, K.K.S.; Lim, L.H.S.; Merican, A.F.; Dimyati, K. (2010). "Biodiversity information retrieval across networked data sets". Aslib Proceedings. 62 (4/5): 514–522. doi:10.1108/00012531011074744. ISSN 0001-253X.
- ^ Abu, Arpah; Susan, Lim Lee Hong; Sidhu, Amandeep; Dhillon, Sarinder (2013). "Semantic representation of monogenean haptoral Bar image annotation". BMC Bioinformatics. 14 (1): 48. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-48. ISSN 1471-2105.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ a b c d e f "Lim Lee Hong, Susan (1952–2014) — monogenean systematist and Commissioner 2006–2014" (PDF). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 71 (4): 217–220. 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ Wong, W. L.; Brennan, G. P.; Halton, D. W.; Lim, L. H. S. (2005). "Fine structure of the anterior adhesive apparatus (head organs) of Bravohollisia gussevi Lim, 1995 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae)". Parasitology. 132 (03): 427. doi:10.1017/S0031182005009054. ISSN 0031-1820.
- ^ Lim, L. H. S.; Gibson, David I. (2007). "Redescriptions of species of Ancyrocephaloides Yamaguti, 1938 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from triacanthid fishes caught off Peninsular Malaysia and a report of their haptoral secretions". Systematic Parasitology. 69 (1): 59–73. doi:10.1007/s11230-007-9112-8. ISSN 0165-5752.
- ^ Lim, L. H. S. (1995). "Bravohollisia Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 and Caballeria Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Pomadasys hasta (Bloch) (Pomadasyidae), with the description of a new attachment mechanism". Systematic Parasitology. 32 (3): 211–224. doi:10.1007/BF00008830. ISSN 0165-5752.
- ^ a b Ambu, S; Vythilingam, I (2014). "Obituary: Susan Lim Lee Hong: February 14, 1952 – August 2, 2014". Tropical biomedicine. 31 (3): 567–8. PMID 25543343.
- ^ Lim, L. H. S. 1987. Distribution and Diversity of Monogeneans in Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular Malaysia. PhD Thesis, University of Malaysia, December 1987.
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