Nega and Catharina recently attended the 20^th Biological Sciences Graduate Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Nega presented a talk titled “The role of bird traits in predicting bird shifts in response to climate change” and Catharina presented a poster titled “Optimal Monitoring and detection of Amphibians on Mount Kinabalu”. The congress was a good opportunity to interact with graduate students from the other two Asian universities involved as well as with students in other biological disciplines from NUS.