ADOPTED MICROBE !

Hi and Greetings !

          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.