ADOPTED MICROBE !

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          On 3^rd June 2016, I’ve presented my adopted microbe which is Cupriavidus metallidurans. Of course, before the presenting, I have to search and prepared a lot of things including reading, searching and understand it clearly and finally do a scrapbook about it.

          I’ve chosen this microbe because it was really impressed me where C.metallidurans eats toxis materials and then.... well.... POOPS GOLD ! Awesome right ?! It is also a Gram-negative , motile, non-spore forming, rod-shaped bacterium known for its ability to resist toxic heavy metals; metallidurans literally translates to "metal-enduring". C. metallidurans is normally found in industrial sediments or wastes which contain high heavy metal concentrations. This microbial magician named Cupriavidus metallidurans , when placed in a minilab full of gold-chloride (a nasty toxin) gumble up the poison and in about a week process it out as 24-karat of precious yellow metal which is GOLD.

The bacteria was found to be 25 times more resistance to the metal based toxin chemical. Metal resistance functions are predominantly encoded on two plasmids, pMOL28 and pMOL30, which produce metal exporters that pump metal ions out of the cell, thus protecting intracellular macromolecules from the toxic effects of high concentrations of metal. It is also believed helping our environmental cause and making us a small profit in the process.

          I’ve searched anywhere in the internet and at the same time finished my scrapbook based on above content :

• Scientific name
• Images
• Classifications
• Description
• Ecology
• Metabolism and Nutrition
• Significant
• References

          This is assignment on  adopting microbes is to present a 3 minutes thesis as well as to learn more and understand the microbes is. I also have been working on a digital scrapbook  which I prefer on using PowToon.

Want to know more about my microbe ?? Click here >> "Cupriavidus metallidurans"

This was the picture of my 3MT presentation.

3MT presentation picture.

From the 3 minutes presentation, I’ve also learnt and gained my confident to talk infront of many peoples eventhough I’m a little bit of shaking. HAHA!

In short, I did really enjoy on the this assignment because it add-on my experiences and also attracted me to want to learnt it more.

YAKULT’S FACTORY TRIP

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Malaysia's Yakult Factory

On 16 May 2016, We had a trip to Yakult’s Factory. The factory was located at Seremban and it takes one hour to reached the destination. We was departed from UPM at 8.30am and arrived at 9.30am by bus. As we arrived safely, we’ve been asked to directly entered the Main Hall to attend some presentation or briefing on what is the factory do.

 Malaysia’s Yakult Factory

Lactobasillus Casei Shirota

 It is a factory that made cultured drink by using a bacteria that is very useful in food production such as YAKULT that gives benefits to the worldwide. The factory also  involves in food production and packaging. YAKULT is a high quality probiotics in the form of a cultured drink. It contains the probiotic bacteria "Lactobacillus casei Shirota" and also know as the "Shirota strain". With over 30 billion live Shirota strain in each bottle, YAKULT has among the highest concentrations of probiotics compared to other probiotic products on the market. The Shirota strain is scientifically proven to be the strongest strains af beneficial bacteria, and has been shown to benefit human health. It also free of preservatives, colourings and stabilizers, so YAKULT is the right choice for those looking for high quality of probiotics for good health. There are two type of YAKULT; Yakult Ace and Yakult Ace Light.

Left : Yakult Ace, Right : Yakult Ace Light

Yakult Ace used sucrose while Yakult Ace Light used fructose which is less sugar than Yakult ace.

After we had been given the talk, we were brought to  see the process of packaging of YAKULT step by step. There were many phases, stages and processes involved in packaging the YAKULT's bottles and they make sure that there was no defects in the packaging. 

Process of making YAKULT.

Packaging process.

Some of the pictures :

Some of the pruduct that used Shirota strain.

While on the road to Yakult's Factory

Candid :)

All of us including Dr. Fairol.

CHAPTER 9 - PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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          For this class the learning concept as a bit differ than before whereas we need to teach our friend about this topic. This activity occurs in the group where the every person in the group have decided on what he or she wants to explained to the other group members. Until the last group, they will gained an extra information about the this topic. At the same time, that last group need to explain it again to the first group where the first group will gained another extra information about this topic.

So, when my group turn up to give an explanation to the next group, because of my group members only 3 person attended the class that time, so each of us got 2 subtopics to be explained to the next group.  

          I got the subtopics about Levels of Organization and also Homeostasis. This activity has taught me on how to deliver the information clearly and effectively to other person and it really gave me a satisfaction when they got the info clearly based on the subtopics. The moment I give an explanations, I got not enough of time to explain because I need to explain to two person at that time, so I need explain one subtopic by one subtopic.

          Overall, this week class really gave us so many experiences on explaining something in facing each others. At the end of the class, the lecturer ask on what subtopic that we not clear and then the lecturer explained it clearly to us.

          Last but not least, we’ve been asked to make a summary based on this chapter :