JOURNAL REFLECTION : THE AWESOME MICROBE CARNIVAL

HELLO EVERYONE,

It has been a hectic week for a student like me. Tests, assignments, programmes and workshop are all around for a few weeks before we having final examination in the end of the semester. Only now, I got a chance to to write this post. (Actually after being triggered by Dr. Wan in WhatsApp group)

Our model 

For now, I'll just tell you guys what happened during our Awesome Microbe Carnival. So, our carnival was held on 19 & 20 November. It is an educational programme that highlighted on the benefits of Microbiology and all about it. Poster, games and sales booth are the main programme.
So, in the department of Microbiology, every batch have their roles and task that are needed to be accomplish. The first year student need to do poster about diseases that are cause by Microorganism. Meanwhile, the second year student have to do poster about the organelle and handle the booth games. The third year student and Fourth year handle the sales booth. all of the sales booth sold food that related to the production of microorganism. For example, kimbap (they use seaweed;algae to wrap the glutinous rice), yoghurt, mini donut (yeast) and etc.

kimburb

cupcakes!

brownies

Oh ya, do I forgot to mention that we also have Age of Tunnel that describe the historical and development of Microbiology! This tunnel caught attention visitor that came to our carnival.

And for your informnation, our carnival had 980 visitor from various school and instuition from all over the place. For example, Uitm, Kolej Mara Kuala Nerang and Smk ....... (I cant remember the school name) hee.

So , from my personal comment for this topic, i do think that this programme is a very good programme that give a lot of exposure to people that do not know about microbiology and what we studied in institution. However, since thi programme was held during our test week, most of us unable to study properly because we are so busy with this programme. and this saddened me a little bit. I just hope the mark is above the redline. hahahhaha.

i just wanna thanks to Dr. wan and my felow friends, seniors, junior for this wonderful moment and experience. And Im so happy to work with you guys. heheeh Goodbye!

JOURNAL REFLECTION [ WEEK 13 ]

We had our replacement class on monday as Dr. got another work to do on Friday.

this is our last class with Dr. Wan in BMY 3202.

The topic that we discussed was about Biogeochemical cycles.

basically, this topic is about the recycling cycles that occur in natural environment.

this cycles include :

1. carbon cycle/ Kelvin Cycle
2. Nitrogen cycle
3. Sulfur cycle
4. Iron cycle
5. Manganese cycle

all above the cycle, Nitrogen cycle really caught my attention as im interested with this process. first is because i have learnt them during high school, so it is much easier for me to understand and memorise them. im also still canr remember how i memorise the microbe that help the nitrogen fixing. How the nitrogen are being change to nitrate and then nitrate. so that plant can absorb them to undergo their metabolism and growth

nitrogen cycle

For me,what is new in this topic are sulfur cycle and manganese cycle. in the sulfur cycle, the processes include sulfur oxidation, sulfur reduction and sulfate reduction. the sulfur cycle occur when moves to and from waterways and living system. they are important because they can affect many mineral. this biogeochemical cycle is important because sulfur is an essential element, being constituent of many protein and cofactor. 

sulfur cycle

In Manganese Cycle, the manganese ion is undergo change to manganic ion via the process of aerobic respiration. this process is reversible. when the manganic ion change to manganese ion, it undergo anaerobic respiration. But here, i still cant understand the significance of this process.

manganese process

Perhaps this might help you and me a little bit. 

I guess thats's all from me

Wish us luck in Finalee!

Journal Reflection [ WEEK 12 ]

Wednesday, 20th May 2015

We had our lecture at 8.30 am today~

so the topic that we discussed was Microbial Group. Basically, in this topic we must know the microbial reproduction, the physical and chemical growth requirement for development of microbial community and also the biofilms.

im going write what i jotted down in my notes.

• The microbial growth is based on Size of population and not individual growth.
• The methods of microbial reproduction consists of : Binary Fission, Budding, Fragmentation, Formation of Spores and Sexual Reproduction.
• Water activity and osmotic pressure is one of the physical growth requirement. the scale goes between (0.0-1.0)   The maximum  level is 1.0.
• Xerophilic  is microorganisms that can resist dessication.
• Fungus growth best at log phase (because of the enzymme)
• Other organisms grow optimumly at stationary phase.
• They are two strategies to develop a population which are r strategies and K strategies. To create a stable population, K strategies is used.
• "Autochnotous" is the term used to describe first/native microbe.
• Autogenic Succession is the microorganism that modify the habitat in a way that permits new population to develop.
• Allogenic Succession is the microbial species succesion that occurs because the habitat is altered by environmental factors.
• Climax comunity is rarely  achieved.
• Biofilms is composed of living, reproducing microorganisms such as bacteria that exist as a community.
• Oil &gas form a lot of biofilms

Thursday, 21th May 2015

The class at 9 but most of my classmates went late. So, we started as soon as everyone came.

Dr. Wan began our lecture with her story: her experience having a late class. thats was so scary!

so, today we continued our lecture on Principles of ecology. Dr. shows us a Powtoon video made by Radin on this subtopic. Ecology is the systematic study of organisms and their interaction with the environment.

Interaction occurs in our ecology. There are also negative interaction which are competition, prey and predators and parasitic.

we also discussed on 

• abiotic factors
• Homeostasis
• The flow of energy
• Factors that may affect the stability of the ecosystems and
• The approaches to effective ecosystem management

I think Thats all. Thankyouuu 

Journal Reflection [ WEEK 11 ]

Wednesday, 13th May 2015

okayyy, in our lecture , we discussed on Fungi and Mashi's group was the one which presented on this subtopic.  so, the general characteristics of fungus:

• eucaryotic
• spore-bearing organisms
• no chlrophyl
• reproduce sexually and asexually 
• absorptive nutrition

So, basically we called the body or vegetative structure of fungus =  THALLUS

THALLUS- single cell/ multicellular

Other speciality of fungus is its cell wall. Normally, the kingdom of plantae or algae have cellulose as their cell wall. But, the cell wall of fungi is made up CHITIN. This type of cell wall adds rigidity and structural support. They are so interesting, aint they?

I'm not going to write all the notes, but I will attach here a video that Ive watched about Fungi.

so, here are the extra information that I obtained from the lecture :)

• The disease that caused by fungi is called "Mycosis"
• Spore that produced by the fungi can be transmitted into the air. as we inhale,  our lung will be infected by this spore.
• The most studied enzymme is B-glucan.
• Tuberculosis is caused by the fungi-bacteria called "Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
• Fungi reproduce asexually by budding. fragmentation and sporulation
• There are five dividon in fungi. They are : Zygomycota, ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota and Deuteromycota.
• Antifungal agent can produced from fungi or bacteria
• Deuteromycota is the type of fungi that are lack of sexual reproduction.
• The treatment that used fungi to treat pollution is called Mycoremediation

Thursday, 14th May 2015

Today is our replacement class held at DKU at 4pm-6pm. I really dont like when we have our replacement class at evening. but, we've got no time anymore, right. dr. Wan entered the hall with her cherishness. Once she spoke up using the mike, we cant see her face. So,  she need to step on a stage. Dr. Wan is so cutee. (^.^)

So, the group who did not present their subtopic yet presented their part. They were Protozoa and we end it with Virus.

As, I mentioned before that i didnt like when the lecture is in the evening, so, I was spaced out going to elsewhere. What Ive just chotted down are :

• phagocytosis is the process where phagocyte engulf pathogen.
• pinocytosis is the process where phagocyte engulf the droplet of liqiud.

Hahaha. Im sorry Dr. Wan. I will look on the lecture notes once again, okay ?

That's all !

Journal Reflection [ WEEK 10 ]

I know I'm kinda a little bit late to post (actually very late.. hehe XD)  my journal reflection. I'm so sorry Dr. Wan. So, here Iam. Im gonna spam my post on previous lecture with Dr. Wan.


Tuesday 5th May 2015

okaaay, we learnt about Archaea after Dr. Wan finished her lecture on microbial group.

So, Choy's group presented on Archaea. They compiled up the archaea characteristics, classification, and unique feature of archaea. if we talked about Archea, what comes to my mind from the previous semester about archaea is archaea is procaryote organism wich have a special ability to survive in extreme conditions such as extreme high temperature(extremophiles), extreme low temperature (phsycrophiles), extreme high salt concentration (halophiles),  and etc..

so, different archaea have different shape and size depending on the condition they live in. but, most of them are in irregular shape as this help them to make a rapid adaptation to the surrounding. Archaea can be classified into

• based on phylogenetic classification. 2 phylum : Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota
• recent 16S rRNA : Thaumarchaeota (Mesophile crenarchaeota)

anddd... after that , Dr. Wan asked us to be in group. she assigned each group archaea extreme condition and asked us to present all our finding in front the class. so, my group were asked to search about methanogen. So, we did search about this type of archaea in the journal and highlighted the contents. when it comes to present in front, our group got difficulty because none of us didnt want go in front. hehe. its not we afraid but we didnt understand deeply bout this. hurmmm. at the end, Aina and Raidah went in front. when they about to present, Dr. said that we misunderstood her question. the correct is, "how methanogen can survive in thio-environment." As the time comes to 12 noon, Dr. asked us to present in the next class.

~phew

Friday, 8th May 2015

We only did "Quiz on Procaryote" today! for me, its quite " krik krik" because most of my friends went for Baksis. but dr. Wan said "Life must go on" ehhehe, so the 2hours lecture is just for the qUIZ.

I THINK THATS ALL FROM ME! 

Journal Reflection [ Week 8 ] : Introduction to Microbial Systematic

Assalamualaikum and good evening I bid to all of you!

In this post I'm gonna talk about a new chapter that we have learnt with Dr. Wan which is the Introduction to Microbial Systematic. Life on earth can be classified into 5 kingdom. This include Monera, Protists, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.

Whittaker's Five kingdom

Before that, we need to know what is the systematic microbiology first. Systematic microbiology is the study the diversity of microorganisms and their relationship.

Do anyone think what is the purpose of learning all of this? lemme tell you.

1) This is because as the microbiologist we should be able to differentiate the microbe wether they are culturable or not.

2) To know the special growth factor

3) To understand the unique feature in each organisms.

In the kingdom of monera whic is the procaryote, we can divided them into four categories based bacterial cell wall.
1) Gram -ve bacteria and cell walls
2) Gram +ve bacteria and cell wall
3) Wall-less bacteria
4) Arcaebacteria


Next, we also learnt about the bacteria. For your information, bacteria is the group of monera/ procaryote. As I mentioned above, they can be divided into four categories. Each categories hold different feature. For example, gram +ve bacteria have thick peptidoglycan while gram -ve have B-lactamase and porin. The wall-less bacteria is able to become pliable which mean they can be in any shape. Mycoplasma is in this group.  


p/s :  The extra information that I gained in the class :
1) Beta-lactamase is the enzymme than can  provide resistance to B-Lactam bacteria such as penicillin,  cephamycins, and carbapenems. This enzymme can be found in the porin in GRAM -VE BACTERIA ONLY.


We also did a grouping activity which is the mind map. So, the website that we used was POPPLET.COM ! YOU  CAN CLICK HERE 
Dr. wan is the one who suggested to us as it can form connection between many people in one mind map. COOL, RIGHT?

My muddiest point : I SHOULD ALWAYS REVISED WHAT IVE LEARNED AND SO FAR I GOT NO PROBLEM IN THE LECTURE. :)

Thats all from me!

A Visit to Portuguese Village, Melaka

Happy Sunday fellas.

(I will conduct today's post in malay, okay as it is easier for me to translate the feeling)


Oraitt, rasa a lil bit different sebab post sebelum ni conducted in english, kan? Afterall, I'm still malay and preffered  more to speak/write in mother tongue. But, I also can speak/write in english. 
Bezanya harini malas nak fikir ayat, tak pe kan? hihi



Okay, aku dengan gang aku ( Fatin, Raidah, Aina dengan Sarah ) bertolak ke Melaka kira kira pukul 1.15 tengahari dan sampai  Melaka pada kira kira pukul 3.00 petang. Ni sebab abang Sarah merangkap driver kami pecut 110 km/h walaupun kereta banyak tau. Sampai ke destinasi kami iaitu, Perkampungan Portugis pukul 4. Kenapa kiteorang sampai lambat sangat? pada hal, tempat ni cuma 5km dari Bandar hilir, Melaka. hah....  Disebabkan kiteorang  tengok waze. Nak kata tak reti tengok waze, tu idok lerr, cumanya kadang kadang tersalah jalan. Lepastu kena U-turn jauuuuuhh gilaaa.

Sampai-sampai sana je, kami masuk tempat dia. Kenapa tak nampak museum pun. Yang ada cuma bar-bar (macam tiger, Carlsberg and etc..). Tipu lah tak terdetik rasa takut kan? Jalan punya Jalan, terjumpa uncle ( Portugis+Chinese) tengah duduk dekat dalam restoren tanya kami nak pergi mana. Aku suruh Sarah cakap, sebab aku takut walaupun uncle ni nampak ramah jerr. hehe

Mula-mula uncle ni macam marah kiteorang sebab datang lambat, dia dah nak tutup museum tu baru kiteorang datang. tapi kiteorang bagi alasan tadi sesat. tak ngeti nak tengok waze. maap leerrr Uncle.

lepastu, uncle tu bawa kami masuk ke museum. Museum ni macam dah berkurun lama gila. Rasa berhabuk tapi penuh lah dengan tinggalan Sejarah. Banyak gambar lama, artifak, duit zaman dahulu dan banyak lagi. Normal lah jumpa benda-benda ni kat museum kan? Tapi apa yang paling fascinated  ialah, ada pakaian orang portugis yang boleh kita cuba. Aku gunakan kuasa veto, suruh Aina dan Raidah yang pakai. Sebab.. aku tengok tu memang size diorang . hehe

Comelkan Aina and Raidah dengan pakcik Portugis

Uncle tu ceritakan everything pasal Portugis macam mana kehidupan mereka termasuk lah dari segi agama diorang ( Roman Katolik ), Perkahwinan, Perayaan yang mereka sambut semuanya lah dengan gigihnyaa. Kiteorang pun mengangguk je lahh bila uncle terangkan dengan panjang lebar sambil tersengih.

Kampung ni memang terletak di tepi laut. Menurut uncle tu, 85% of the villagers are fisherman pada suatu masa dahulu. sekarang dah tak banyak nelayan dah. Semua dah kerja dasyat-dahsyat dah. Peredaran masa lah katakan. they're the fifth generation, he said.

Pemandangan laut di kampung ni.

aku pun tak melepaskan peluang buat aksi melompat, konon-kononya hipsturr gitu

shelpieee

So, alang alang dah sampai melaka kami pun tak melepaskan peluang ke pantai Klebang, salah satu destinasi yang menjadi port-port histurr ambik gambar. Perjalanan dari kampung ni ke Klebang lebih kurang 30 minit. Tu pun sebab jammed. Kalau pecut 110 km/h 15 minit sampai lah sebab jalan dia straight je. so.. hasil photoshoot kami..., hehe

wajib  post acah-acah candid jalan dekat pantai

aksi jumping pun wajib jugak

Fatin dah pandai dah buat muka. The rest dekat belakang nak nyanyi lagu Negaraku

Thats all from me. Thank you for reading.

Adios Amigos! 

Summarisation

In this post, I'm gonna  talk about what I've learnt from week 1 to week 7.

During at that moment, we're with Dr. Sieo Chin Chin. A beautiful chinese lecturer with a kind heart, knowledgeable and experienced lecturer. 

Basically, within the seven weeks, we covered two big topic which are nomenclature and classification and immunology. I swear to you, this is not easy, man!

The first topic which is nomenclature and classification, we learnt how to name microorganisms according to international rules and regulations. So, what are the common rules to name an organisms?
here,

• Both printed underlined or italicised
• Genus name is always capitalized (e.g. Escherichia)
• Species name is lowercase (e.g. coli)
• Species name is never used without the genus name (e.g. coli standing alone)
• Genus name may be used without species name (e.g. Escherichia)

example : Homo sapiens

                 Homo sapiens

Besides that, we also learnt the method of classifying and identifying. Classifying is usually is based on the arrangement of organisms according their mutual similarity or evolutionary relatedness. Meanwhile, the identification method is used to discover the trait of organism.

Personally, Dr. Seo taught us very well and clearly. This two topics are twice more harder than our previous class, BMY3101. More deep and more informative consisting the processes and the applications. Sometimes, we were too saturated and cannot digest anymore, but I'm impress with Dr. Seo. She took care of us and taught us very slowly and will repeat again again and again until we understand. Long applause for her!

Dr. Seo with The Microbiology family

Sometimes, I feel this is so hard. sometimes, I feel I wanna give up. BUT .... There are lots more to come. But, its okay to sweat planting a trees now so that we can eat the fruits later. I'm thankful for what I be like today. Afterall, He know everything. For sure He know our righteous place, right? sooo, guys.. Let us give out our very best! May we bless and ease by Him.

NOT to FORGET also, WELCOME BACK DR WAN !

BMY 3102

Hello everyone!

To be truth, this is my first blog and I'm decided to post all everything about Microbiology world ! 

Since, I'm the future-microbiology so here we are. 

lets start with the introduction to Microbiology! so what is Microbiology?

tettttttttt ...!!!!

Time is up, guys.

So, in the simple word, microbiology come from micros - small / tiny , bios - life and logos - study . They are come from greek word. Basically, we are learning about the microscopic organism consisting unicellular ( single cell ) , multicelullar ( colony cell ) and acellular ( lacking cells ). This included virology, bacteriology, mycology and parasitology.

If you guys are interested with all this tiny and discrete organism, it is highly recommendation to take this course. 

Somoene asked me, how we can see all this tiny organisms?

so, we are using this

yeah, we are using microscope of course ! but you wont see microscope with this colour in our lab ! hehe. I just took it from google because it looks so cute.

I guess you guys already get the idea about Microbiology, right?  Here is my little advice.

Adios amigos!