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MICROBIAL GROWTH & BIOTECHNOLOGY IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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This week class, we learned about the microbial growth and aspects of biotechnology in microbial ecology. For the microbial growth, we will be able to distinguish the microbial reproduction which includes: binary fission, budding, fragmentation, sporulation and sexual reproduction. Next, we able s to describe the physical and chemical growth requirements for development of microbial community. For the physical requirements include the pH, water activity, light, and temperature. For the chemical growth requirements included water, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, special growth factors and trace elements. For the aspects of biotechnology in microbial ecology, we need to describe the function in ecosystem.There are some function of microorganisms in microbial ecology which are as pollutant, as cause of pollutant, as indicator of pollution, may reduce pollution, for example oil spill and landfills. we also need to disting
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PRINCIPLES IN ECOLOGY

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This week class, we discussed about our topics of principle of ecology. Basically ecology can be define as the systematic study of organisms and their interactions with the environment and reveals the relationships between living and non-living parts of the environment. There are hierarchy in ecology. There are 5 level organization which is Species --> Populations --> Communities --> Ecosystems --> Biosphere. There are two distribution of organisms which are biotic (living things) and abiotic (nonliving things) eg: water, temperature, soil, rock and etc.  Biotic Abiotic Other than that, we also discuss about Homeostasis. It can define as dynamic balance of processes, materials and organisms in the ecosystem and biosphere. We also discuss about factors that may affect the stability of the ecosystem. Below are some of the factors: • Increase in the frequency of natural or unnatural disturbances
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Second week in class

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Welcome to my blog, as always i am going to update you guys about this week class of microbiology. Well this week we just do the flowchart how to isolate fungi and post it in padlet that was provided by Dr Wan. Then she look the flowchart by group. this is our flow chart you can refer here: https://padlet.com/wzs/BMY3102/wish/235384746 Other that Dr. Wan also going through the Fungi topics briefly.  After that Dr. Wan told us to  go back to search about journal on How to identify microbe through molecularly. Then, the next class she told us to do flowchart based on the journal that we choose and post it at padlet. https://padlet.com/wzs/BMY3102 That's all for the class this week. Thank you for visit and good bye. Have a nice day :)
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First Class In Sem 2

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A new day, a new semester and a new experience. So as usual the first class is the introduction and briefing of the subject. Well it pretty usual. Dr. Wan also talk about our assessment and assignment that we need to do throughout this semester. For example like Pecha Kucha, and Microbiology Ambassador project.  We need to create scoop.it account, and find information about the topics that we have assigned. My group got topics about Bacteria. So we need to find about bacteria that involve in agriculture. Below is my scoop.it account. You guys can follow my account if you want. https://www.scoop.it/u/nurul-husna-3 Our next class, we discuss about our first topics, which about Fungi Cc: Pinterest We been assigned to do a mindmap about the topic with our group members without looking the notes. We doing it together so we compile the information together in the paper. Then we pass it to other group to complete our mind map, and repeat for about 2 rou
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3MT PRESENTATION

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Well hello there, well this week basically we have finished our lesson in Microbiology thus, this week we doing the presentation of 3MT on adopt a microbe. So basically each of us have 3 minutes to talk about our own microbe and at the end of talk there will be a QnA session.  Below is mine 3MT presentation or AKA poster : I talk about Varicella zoster virus. If you guys want to know more about it you can check out this website and this journal or article below: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Varicella_zoster_virus Articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066823/ So at the end of our 3MT we need to evaluates others, means that we need to evaluate our friends on how they present their 3MT. Thats all I guess. Thank you and see you guys again.
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MINIC GROUP 12 - INDIVIDUAL GROUP REFLECTION

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Hello, so first of all I like to thanked my fellows member of MINIC group 12. As we very work hard on this project. I like to thanked also the lecturers for giving us the opportunity to do this project. Well I do not want to write a lot about a lot. But I can tell that this MINIC is very a good platform for people in the faculty to work together. Even though the people are all different in courses, this is the way that can make us together and create a good bond and memories together. These are some of the picture we take together. We really have fun and enjoy our time there. Even though it is very nervewrecking experience but we done it together. Below I attach some of the work that we done in our MINIC project. The padlet : (Information that we gather together) https://padlet.com/leejiawei_5383/ao4yqqlojxwj The Video:   The poster: I guess thats all for me. I hope we will meet again even though we have finish the project.
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Serial Dilution - Agar Plate Procedure to Quantitate Viable Cells

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Hi guys so this week experiment will going to be the Serial dilution.  In this experiment, we will be able familiar and understand with the diverse methods used to determine the number of cells in a bacterial culture. The number of cells counted is calculated as follows: Number of cells per mm= number of cells counted X dilution X 50,000 The factor of 50,000 is used in order to determine the cell count for 1ml:1ml=1000mm 3 =(50 times the chamber depth of 0.02) X 1000. Next, we able to know how to determine quantitatively the number of viable cells in a bacterial culture. For this experiment we need to do the two procedure which are pour-plate and spread-plate. For the pour plate, we just need to pour 1ml of culture E. coli  into empty petri dish and pour the molten agar. For the spread-plate, spread the 0.1 ml culture of E. coli  into the surface of agar medium. Spread with the L-shaped bent glass rod. so thats all thank you goodbye.
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