🔥🌟Hats Off to Our FYP Superstars!

To all of you — Khairun, Nazihah, Fathyn and Iskandar — congratulations once again! You’ve not only completed a major academic milestone, but you've also made meaningful contributions to the field of conservation biology and microbial ecology in Sarawak. We can’t wait to see where your journey takes you next.

🎓✨ Your hard work has truly taken flight!🧬🔬

Khairun Nabihah

Final Year Project Title: “Gut Microbiome Composition of Insectivorous Bats Across Three Localities in Sarawak”

Khairun’s project explored the microbial communities in the guts of insect-eating bats across varied environments, revealing how locality may shape microbiome diversity in chiropterans.

Alya Fathyn

Final Year Project Title: “Comparative Gut Microbiome Analysis of Phytophagous Bats Across Three Habitat Types in Central-Western Sarawak”

Fathyn examined how different habitats influence the gut microbiome of frugivorous bats, shedding light on how diet and environment intertwine in shaping gut microbial diversity.

Ain Najwa Nazihah

Final Year Project Title: “Comparative Dietary Study of Insectivorous Bats Using DNA Metabarcoding from Two Locations in Southwestern Sarawak”

Nazihah used the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) DNA metabarcoding techniques to uncover the dietary preferences of insectivorous bats, providing a clearer picture of their ecological roles and food web interactions.

Iskandar

Final Year Project Title: “Gut Microbiome Compositions of Non-Volant Small Mammals from Two Sites in Western Sarawak”

Iskandar expanded the scope beyond bats to study the gut microbiomes of non-flying small mammals, offering important comparative data and highlighting ecological microbial patterns across species.

Prof. Dr. Faisal Khan (center), together with the 2025 members of FAAK Lab.