Rudolf Meier interviewed for the Straits Times
"A group of researchers here has received $250,000 in funding from the United States National Science Foundation to study flies - a coup because such funds usually go only to American institutions. Sexual athletes with wings, these black scavenger flies will be part of the study led by Prof Rudolf Meier. The group, headed by National University of Singapore Associate Professor Rudolf Meier, has been selected to take part in the prestigious ‘Tree of Life’ project, a massive international undertaking that aims to document the biodiversity of all creatures great and small.
The Singapore group’s work is focused on scavenger flies and robber flies - of which there are about 7,000 species - and will be combined with that of researchers from the US and Australia, who have been given a total of $4 million to study other members of the fly and mosquito families." You can read the full story online.