| Susan Lim Lee Hong | |
|---|---|
 Susan Lim in 2003 | |
| Born | (1952-02-14)February 14, 1952 Seremban, Malaysia |
| Died | August 2, 2014(2014-08-02) (aged 62) Petaling Jaya, Malaysia |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Alma mater | University of Malaya |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Parasitology |
| Institutions | University of Malaya |
Lee Hong Susan Lim (February 14, 1952 – August 2, 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.
She has been considered the leading monogenean specialist in South-East Asia. 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. 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.
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. 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, 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.
Awards and honours
- Full Professorship, University of Malaya, 2003
- Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2006–2014 (the only Malaysian ever elected)
- 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.
Eponymous taxa
The two monogenean genera Susanlimae Boeger, Pariselle & Patella, 2015 and Susanlimocotyle Soares, Domingues & Adriano, 2021 were named by their respective authors to "acknowledge the fact that Dr. Lim was greatly responsible for most of our knowledge of the diversity of Monogenea from Asian Siluriformes."
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
- Haliotrema susanae Soo, 2019
See also
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. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...877650T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077650. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3810373. PMID 24204903.
- 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. PMC 3639807. PMID 23398696.
- ^ Gibson, D.; Ng, P.K.L. (2014). "Lim Lee Hong, Susan (1952–2014) — monogenean systematist and Commissioner 2006–2014" (PDF). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 71 (4): 217–220. doi:10.21805/bzn.v71i4.a9.
- 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 (3): 427–38. doi:10.1017/S0031182005009054. ISSN 0031-1820. PMID 16309563. S2CID 38428317.
- 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. PMID 18030603. S2CID 21630734.
- 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. S2CID 21186267.
- ^ Ambu, S; Vythilingam, I (2014). "Obituary: Susan Lim Lee Hong: February 14, 1952 – August 2, 2014" (PDF). 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.
- ^ Boeger, Walter A.; Pariselle, Antoine; Patella, Luciana (2015). "Susanlimae ianwhittingtoni gen. nov., sp. nov. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae), a dweller of the gill rakers of Pseudeutropius moolenburghae (Siluriformes: Schilbeidae) from Sumatra". Zoologia (Curitiba). 32 (6): 532–537. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000600011. ISSN 1984-4689.
- ^ Soares, Geusivam B.; Domingues, Marcus V.; Adriano, Edson A. (2021). "An integrative taxonomic study of Susanlimocotyle narina n. gen. n. sp. (Monogenoidea, Dactylogyridae) from the nasal cavities of a marine catfish (Siluriformes, Ariidae) from the Atlantic Amazon Coast of Brazil and new molecular data of Chauhanellus spp". Parasitology International. 81: 102271. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2020.102271. PMID 33321223. S2CID 229284383. (subscription required)
- Justine, Jean-Lou; Brena, Pierpaolo (2009). "Calydiscoides limae sp. nov. (Monogenea, Diplectanidae) from Pentapodus aureofasciatus (Perciformes, Nemipteridae) off New Caledonia". Acta Parasitologica. 54 (1). doi:10.2478/s11686-009-0009-3. ISSN 1896-1851.
- Soo, O.Y.M. (2019). "A new species of Haliotrema (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae (sensu lato) Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1968) from holocentrids off Langkawi Island, Malaysia with notes on the phylogeny of related Haliotrema species". Parasitology International. 68 (1): 31–39. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2018.09.003. ISSN 1383-5769. PMID 30244155. S2CID 52345158.