Sixth day of Lecture~

26^th September 2014

Assalamualaikum w.b.t.

Today is Friday! Yayyyy! Tomorrow is Saturday. Ohh but I forgot that we have koko tomorrow (HMMM). Sunday we have Biotech Capsule. (Oh my Weekend )

Okay, today I’m going to story about my sixth lecture with Dr Wan. Today we learnt Chapter3 : Prokaryotes.

Dr Wan said about autoclave and don’t have any idea what is the shape of autoclave and I google lah! HIHI. This machine is use for sterilization. I don’t know whether this is true or not, but I heard that Dr said ‘’to know the shape of bacteria we use filter sterilization’’.

 Laboratory autoclave

Pleomorphic is bacteria that can change it shape due to change in temperature such as Archaea. I also know that the smallest bacteria in the world is Mycoplasma.

                    Mycoplasma

We also learnt the relationship between size and shape. The relationships are for the nutrient uptake and movement.

Another new bacteria that I’ve learnt is proteus mirabilis. It is gram-negative bacteria. It caused urinary tract infection (UTI).

 proteus mirabilis

Half an hour before we end our lecture, there’s activity for us! We have to do mind map on this topic in front on the whiteboard without talking to each other, BUT. It’s not like what Dr ask us to do, HAHA and Dr always “PEOPLE!” “PEOPLE!” “PEOPLE!”. HAHA its so funny.

We finished our class at 12 today because we start at 8. Okay, till we meet again, Bye! XOXO

~Fifth day of Lecture~

23^rd September 2014

Today’s lecture we just continue our previous lecture on topic Microscopy. We learnt how to prepare smear and it involves :

1.       Preparing smears

2.       Fixation

3.       Staining

And the function of staining is to preserve internal and external structures there are two types of fixing that are heat fixing and chemical fixing.

And staining, there are three types of staining that are simple staining, differential staining and special staining.

For differential staining there are two types :

1.       Gram-staining

2.       Acid-fast straining

For special straining there are three types :

1.       Negative straining

2.       Endospore straining

3.       Flagella straining

Dr Wan told us that bacteria that can produce endospore only gram-positive bacteria. She also said that Mycobacterium tuberculosis caused TB (batuk kering)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Another new bacteria that we have learnt today is Helicobacter pylori that caused gastric and ulsers and it is gram-negative bacteria.

Helicobacter pylori

Another half an hour (maybe) after finish this topic, Dr Wan wanted us to do a mind map on Chapter 3!

In a our own group we did a mind map on chapter Prokaryotes (just half of it) : External structure only. And we finished our lecture on 12p.m. my course mate and I then walking to the food court next to CIMB bank for lunch.

Till we meet again, Bye! XOXO

Forth day of Lecture~

22^nd September 2014

Assalamualaikum w.b.t.

Today is Monday and we had a replacement class (lecture) from 2.00 p.m to 5.00 p.m. But as usual, the class was enjoyable.

First and foremost, Dr Wan changed our project (Adopt Microbe) to Thank a Microbe. Okayyy, I thought it just changed the name to Thank a Microbe BUT there’re two different tasks actually. The Thank a Microbe is for grouping, and Adopt Microbe for individually. Hmmmm  GOOD!

Today we also met a new course mate Syarah Abbas (akak actually). She’s 22 years old and took Diploma in Microbiology in UiTM. Hmmm very the experienced person in Microbe yaa (compare to us).

Today we learnt about History of Microbe ( Dr Wan called this subtopic as Tawareh) HIHI . Today I know many fact  as in Microbiology field :

1.       Antonie van Leewenhoek was the first Microbiologist and he found out animalcules ( bacteria that mobile).

2.       Robert hooke was the English father of Microscopy and he is the one who has coined the word ‘cell’. He was smarter because he invented the microscope and publish a book titled Micrographia

3.       Pasteurization was not kill all microbes but only kill pathogens

4.       UHT is Under High Temperature

Chapter 2 :  Microscopy

There’s two categories of microscopes :

•          Light microscope
•          Electron microscope

There’s five types of microscopes :

•          Bright field
•          Phase contrast
•          Dark field
•          Electron microscope
•          Fluorescence

Types of light microscopes :

•          Bright field
•          Dark field
•          Confocal
•          Phase contrast
•          Fluorescence

Types of electron microscope :

•        Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM)
•          Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
•          Electron Cryotomography

Ermmm actually, I don’t really understand about this topic, because there many names in one type and I don’t know how to classify it, I tried to do mindmap but I don’t know to put those and that microscope to which one type. (argghhh hard to tell)

I think I have to see Dr Wan personally hihi, till we meet again! Bye! XOXO 

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Third Lecture after Public Holiday (16/9/2014)

19^th September 2014

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

The class started with a NEWS! We have to do a BIG NEW PROJECT ! TADAAA (*.*) Guess what? The project has been named as ADOPT MICROBE! HIHI (cute sangat nama tu). And Dr Wan showed us a video on AURASMA. I just can’t imagine how can a static picture can move within a minutes when we scan it using smart phone. We have to a project on it.

Today’s lecture we just continued from the last lecture and finished the chapter (Introduction to Microbial World).

The main different of Archaea and Bacteria is

               

Archaea	Bacteria
Cell wall made up from pseudo peptidoglycan	Cell wall made up from peptidoglycan

Today we also learnt many type of bacteria.

First : Giardia Lamblia this microbe caused diarrhea

            

                  Giardia Lamblia

Second : Desulfovibrio this microbe suffer using sulphur and the shape is vibrio (comma-shape)

         

                                                                    

                                                                                   Desulfovibrio

Third : Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the microbe (yeast) that we use in making bread

                                                               

   

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

I’ve learnt that there are 5 classes of E.coli :

• enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) 
• enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) 
• enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
• enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)
• enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC).

And the most virulence E.coli is O157:H7

   E.coli is O157:H7

Our class ended by summarizing what we have learnt today but there’s no 2 minutes paper anymore. HIHI

Till we meet again! Bye! XOXO

Second day Lecture~

12^th September 2014

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Today is our second class with Dr Wan and today we’re going to start our lecture in BMY 3101. BUT about one hour (10 am to 11am) Dr briefed us about …

TO-DO-LIST !

1.        SCL grouping
2.        Calendar
3.        Edmode
4.        Blendspace
5.        Padlet
6.        Jing

I just like “ermmm aku ni dah la tak berapa nak ber-IT sangat” HEHE ! But I have to do all these because I want to challenge myself to be a confident person. (lantaklah English nak terabur pun, as long as I’m confident! Who cares?)

Today’s lecture is  ‘‘INTRODUCTION TO MICROBIAL WORLD’’ . I’ve learnt about application in Microbiology world such as : 

•         Medical microbiology
•         Food microbiology
•      Industrial microbiology
•        Immunology
•      Bioremediation
•       Agricultural microbiology

At the end of the class, we summarized our lecture today with an ACTIVITY! The activity was “TWO MINUTES PAPER’’

TWO MINUTES PAPER IS :

An activity that need us to list down all the muddiest point and reflection for  today’s lecture. The muddiest point is we have to jot down point that we don’t understand during today’s lecture and reflection was about what we’ve learnt  such as name of bacteria, what we get (understand) during the lecture  and so on.

I’m very excited for the next class because maybe there’s a surprise assignment from Dr Wan again. BUT unfortunately there’s no class in 16^th September due to public holiday (Hari Malaysia) . I’ve learnt about a bacteria today. A bacteria that live or can be found in can food, that is Clostridium botulinum.

                                                                Clostridium botulinum

Till we meet again in the next class, Bye! XOXO

First day Lecture~

9^th September 2014

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Today is my first lecture in Microbiology 1 (BMY 3101) and I was extremely excited to know what was the subject about because of the course that I got is Bachelor Science Microbiology. My first impression towards my lecturer as I look at her face is `Dr Wan is “garang”!’  haha but….. as she open up her mouth, she just like can’t stop talking and she’s not ‘garang’ at all. She ask : ‘Who have heard about my class from your senior?’ and ‘Megat answered : they said that Dr. Wan baik and selalu bawak makanan.’ And I was like “MAKANAN?? (*.*) ’’ HAHA ! 

As the class started, she told us to use padlet.com . I actually don’t know what is the ‘padlet.com’ about before entered this class. The first question is “WHAT IS MICROBIOLOGY? ‘’ and I answered the question as “Microbiology is the study about microscopic organisms that we can’t see through our naked eyes.” HEHE I don’t know actually.

Then, Dr Wan ask : “What is the largest bacteria in the world?’’ and Kak Sara Joe answered : ‘Thiomargarita namibiensis’ and I was like ‘’what is that?? (o.0)’’

                                                           Thiomargarita namibiensis

As the clock is near to 12 p.m , Dr Wan gave us a gift! Guess what? It was an ASSIGNMENT! HAHA and I just relax because that’s normal right? What was the assignment about was surprising me badly! (OMG OMG OMG!) Dr Wan want us to make a short video about ourselves and our expectation towards this course. Ermmm OKAY… Not just a video okay, we have to upload the video in YOUTUBE!! Ohhh okkaayy again and again
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 HAHA the task is simple but it was difficult to a ‘’shy shy cat’’ girl like me! (ahaks, shy lah sangat XD) actually I’m not the one who was very confident to talk in front of public (I mean, many people) BUT as I stepped into this class I learnt that I have to do this and that!( Dr Wan’s assignment)  Because this is the one of the way to make me feel confident in front class. 

Other than that, another one assignment is to have a journal about our class(Microbiology 1)  and submit it by the end of semester. Easy right? But it must be in form of blog or else, HUH! OKAY!

 I hope that Dr Wan will give us “assignment pelik-pelik’’ again. HAHA I’m just kidding (Please don’t give us that ‘’pelik-pelik’’ one) If you wanna do so, I just have to “redha je lah” HIHI.

Okay, till we meet again in our next class. Bye! XOXO