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Salam to all.. At last, i’ve succeed in making my own blog.. i’ve got encouragement when i saw others’ blog.. eventhough i don’t really know what to post in here..

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Ok, so maybe i should start with..

Trip to Malaysia Genome Insitute

This happened on 25/1 which means in friday. I went to a trip with other biotech students (don’t know exactly how many of us). We departed at 5.30am (but waited from 4.30am for the bus driver..*really frustrating*) and arrived at almost 10am. At MGI which is located inside UKM Bangi, we’ve been greeted by Miss Azlin & Miss Aisyah. Then, we went to breakfast and after that had some kind of briefing. Miss Azlin showed us some of the games like Liku² DNA board game, Dolly board game & biotech board game which were used in Nationwide Biotechnology Outreach and Awareness Program for Malaysian High School (why,its so long..) to promote biotechnology to secondary students. We were really impressed with the game & felt really delighted to get the Liku² DNA board game as a door gift~ 

To make story short, we’ve divided ourselves to 2 groups. My group visit to Stroma blok first. There, we learnt abt protein expression & purification, then microarray->how to spot & screen the sample. Seriously, i’m pretty blur in the microarray lab. It’s like i know nothing abt it. But then, it’s understandable coz i’m not learning it in class just yet~

This is a pic that i copy & paste from MGI..~

Bioreactor for protein expression & purification

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After that, we went to Heliks Emas block to learnt about DNA Sequencing. The research officer which is K. Halimah likes to ask us questions in relation to the sequencing of DNA. Well, i couldn’t answer most of her questions coz i didn’t learn it in class yet (typical answer ^_^). There was one time when she asked, ” what’s that thing called?” & pointed to a centrifuge machine. That was one of the questions that i could confidently answer I felt sad a lil bit coz i don’t have a camera to take pic of all that cool things. It would be much better if i got a videocam but that’s like impossible for now. *huhu* Then, she told us that the guys from other group asked her ,”can we bring one back to uia?” At this point, we really laughed (esp 2nd year students) coz we had experienced the long waiting just to centrifuge the samples (not enough equipment in UIA which is so pitiful +.+). Then, we take a look at the sequencer, DNA analyzer & some equipments which were really amazing (esp in terms of how expensive it is) This is another pic that i copy & paste..~

Sequencer for DNA sequencing

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Overall, i feel satisfied with the trip. RM5 that i paid to go there really worth coz the knowledge that i learnt is so much more from what i learnt in class. But, it would be much greater if only all my batch goes there too.. (+.+)

Hm, i think i should finish here coz it’s 4 o’clock in the morning. Hard to believe that i spend too much time just to make this blog a reality. So,till then..

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