My thoughts on BMY3001 overall

Assalamualaikum and Hi everybody. This may be my last reflective journal for this course. BMY 3001 Microbiology. I personally feel that I started to develop my love for this course. At the beginning, it was quite difficult for me to catch up with the syllabus, but as time goes by, I realised that this course is not that hard. The way Dr Wan Zuhainis taught me really help me to understand and try to look for more information by myself. Learning is all about striving to become the better you, thus, I really appreciate Dr Wan’s effort by forcing to BYOD (bring our own device) to class. Dr Wan uses a lot of interactive teaching tools that make the class interesting and cheerful. I can say that I laughed a lot during Dr Wan’s class because her joke is very funny. I just can’t stop laughing. But at the same time, I did not neglect my studies. I tried to understand I tried to read the notes before class. And I also will try to answer questions asked by Dr Wan in the class.

 One of the teaching tools that I remember is Kahoot.it. Wow I never knew the existence of such interesting online game. I will surely recommend Kahoot.it to my friends. Other than that, Dr Wan also asked us to create a game about chosen topic. We must think creatively to make the game fun but educational at the same time. As my group chose musical chair game, I hope my fellow classmates enjoy the game as much as I do.

Well, Dr Wan is not going to teach me forever, until Week 7, Dr Fairol came by and taught us. Dr Fairol was also as interesting as Dr Wan. Dr Fairol will try her best to not make the class look boring. She will ask us what we want to do to wash away our sleepy head. Doing a group mind map is very good actually. It boost our mind and forced us to brainstorm about the whole topic. By doing a mindmap actually helps me a lot. I learned a lot from the mindmap that I do. It is a group mindmap thus each of us will contribute to the mind map. I love mind map. Mind map is very useful when I want to study at the last minute. I can just refer to the mind map and understand the whole topic.

Overall, thanks to both lecturers, Dr Wan Zuhainis and Dr Fairolniza for your efforts and everything to me along this semester. I will surely remember you two as you always encourage me to love microbiology as much as Drs do. I love Dr Wan and Dr Fairol to the moon and back. :) 

Adopted Microbe

Assalamualaikum Dr Wan and Dr Fairol! :) This is my entry for adopted microbe.

I am very pleased to say that I am happy to be given a chance to adopt a microbe. I am so excited to start this assignment. There are sooo many microorganism in this biosphere that I hardly choose one. But after a thorough research on various sources such as the internet mainly on scoop.it ,on books and articles, I choose Vibrio parahaemolyticus as my adopted microbe. 

As we can see from the name itself, "vibrio" shows the shape of the microbe. It is a curved rod shape. Vibrio parahaemlyticus is in the domain of bacteria due to its lack of nucleus and also membrane bound organelles. This is a Gram-negative bacteria. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is and obligate halophilic organism meaning it requires salt to live. Commonly it can be found free swimming, latched onto underwater surfaces. However, this bacterium can also found in high concentrations in areas of large seafood consumption. 

What makes me interested to choose Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the fact that this bacterium is the leading causative agent of seafood related illlness in the United States. This fact surprised me and eventually triggered me to explore on this kind of bacterium. This species is naturally occurring and found worldwide. It can also survive in both liquid environments and semi solid surfaces that is in your body! Quite interesting isn't it? In humans, this bacterium uses a toxic protein to destroy your red blood cells. And plus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus also can multiply rapidly, thanks to its form of reproduction, binary fission. It will reproduce in humans, in water and in other marine organisms such as oyster and humpback whale. 

Well after discovering about Vibrio parahaemolyticus I think I should realized the importance of taking precautions when cooking seafood. This is because this bacteria is becoming a possible illness although that is not lethal to human but it is serious. I just tell you guys more or less about my adopted microbe, Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

We we required to prepare an online scrapbook and also a 3MT slide. The 3MT slide is to present on Week 14. 3MT stands for 3 minutes talk. I am quite nervous about my 3MT, but Alhamdulillah it all went well. Although there are certain infos that I forgot to share during my 3MT I hope what I have delivered during the talk will give benefits to my friends. I just want to share about my adopted microbe to my fellow classmates and also to Dr Wan and Dr Fairol. 

I used cliptomize.com  for my online scrapbook. Cliptomize is an easy tool to do a scrapbook. It was simple but yet very attractive. You can read the book as long as you want. That is why I choose cliptomize. Overall, this assigment, adopted microbe helps me to discover about Vibrio parahaemolyticus. I tried to understand the life of a bacteria and develop love towards this bacteria.