Christine Jewel Yabut

Featured on September 14, 2019

Meet Christine Jewel Yabut, molecular biologist and phylogenist.

She recently finished her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Korea University. Her research focuses on the Phylogeny of an insect group (Trichoptera) that can be found in clean streams and rivers. She discovers and describes new species from their group.

She shares: “The species that I discovered from the Philippines were collected in the streams of Los Banos, Laguna inside the University of the Philippines – Los Baños (Diplectrona lagunensis) and in Imugan, Nueva Vizcaya (Hydropsyche philippinensis). During my collection in Imugan, I also collected another new species that was described by a colleague who named the species after me. Cheumatopsyche christinae! I am now finishing a barcode library of the Insect species from the group Trichoptera in South Korea.”