Yeah, if you plan to take masters or work in a lab in the future, PCR and gel electrophoresis is the basics, especially for biochem students, biotech im not so sure. However, doing PCR and electrophoresis is simple, but getting correct results is the hard part, especially when you're not sure whether the lab is clean.

Haha. I prefer animal cells such as cancer cells more than plants. But no harm doing plants

The title by Dr Chew is quite interesting, but i guess i wont be taking it as there's limited places and of course, he doesnt know me.

WAAAAAAAAAA
All the Dr Dr you all mentioned I also don't know.
Anyone knows Dr Khoo KS?

Hehe.

Seriously, PCR is quite an interesting part of Molecular Biology. In fact, a great invention that modernize the world of genetics and molecular biology.

Eh, planning to do your master also eh? Me too . But, for now have to kao tim the final year project first.

Seriously, I dont like plants that much either. The plant Biochemistry I mentioned there, are mostly related to the extraction of macromolecules from plants, not about the studies of plants (thou it might be related). Palm oil is one of my main interest since my training with the MNC are heavily related to palm oil. I saw Dr Loo's project and its quite similar to what I did during my training.

The actinomyeces antibiotic production is a very interesting project. But be prepared for lots of microbiology work. You can culture up to 200-300 petri dish per day. Haha. Thats how crazy it is when I saw my friend doing it during our training

Weeeee. Looks like my choice for molecular work is not wrong after all . Talked to Dr Wong Kam Huei today. Her project seems very fun as it involve a lot of test and uses a lot instrument for testing. But its a new project and no established procedure (for the fermentation enzyme tat one). Dr Chew is a he ? I tot She ?

what abt biomed students? is PCR and gel electrophoresis needed? hmmm....
DR. chew is a SHE.....it's alrite if she doens't know u. last time she took abt 12 biotech students for their fyp.
I liked her alot....her lecturer's is great and she is very friendly. ^^

Dr.anthony in the other hand is a very cheeky lecturer.....his has a great sense of humour! Even the world's most boring subject will become interesting after being taught by him...like wat i had last sem-neurobiology.



hey, actually i wanted to accompany my fren to see dr.wong today but she wasn't around......
are u choosing her as your 1st choice?
new projects means they might be interesting new findings....the exp will be unpredictable....go ahead for it!!

ok...just to share with you all...i've surveyed my biomed coursemates....majority of them are doing microbio works.....less ppl are interested in doing molecular work....and i think the rest of them will choose to do dry lab...

not really sure for biomed. but i guess it will be important if you plan to do lab work in the future.

sorry sorry. i meant to type he/she.
Is she a biomed lecturer? Kindof worried coz her places are very limited.

Among my friends, not many are going to aim for microbio, so i guess there wont be alot of competition, unless biotech has many doing it.

Wooo. I shall meet Dr. Chew if I have the opportunity. I like friendly lecturers, can talk lots of stuff with them.

Nope. I'm not choosing Dr.Wong Kam Huei's project as first choice. I jz ask her for fun. But its fun cause I like analytical biochemistry work. So might consider it as 4-5th choice project. Anyway, Dr Wong isnt those type of "Hardworking" lecturers. Haha. So you know she wouldn't expect something profesional or too much from you. Haha. But she stands firm with the numbers, 3 and 6 students for both project. No increase in numbers.

PCR and Gel Electrophoresis is a basic to most analysis process. Its always important.

Wooo. Yeah, Biochemistry not many going for microbio. Many are taking stuff related to analytical biochemistry. Many of them are interested in Dr Loo, Dr Wong Kam Huei, Dr Wong Ching Lee, and Dr Hii project.

I'd love to consult dr. chew as well but i think i'll set his as the 3rd-4th choice. I don't know why but I'm pretty interested in Dr. Lim's titles. Those are regarding cancer cells too (testing against raji cell lines). Guess i'm just interested in anything that has to do with cancer cells.

I went around and joined friends to consult lecturers for fun too..haha..and I found that I wouldn't go for dr. teh's titles. She's a nice lady and is Very flexible with her titles (definitely Not result oriented kind of person) but that was made me think twice.

She didn't set any target in particular and she said that if you are hardworking, she doesn't mind you conducting extra tests and expts (if she approved of it of course). thus, you really have to know what you want when carrying out expts for her titles.
haha..nt my cuppa...i'm too inexperienced to take things that far.

But my friends are pretty interested as they can get bioluminescence bacteria in their hometown.

And yes...dr. soon IS friendly! my friend sent her an email inquiring her on her titles and boy, she replied in such a friendly manner that you'd thought you guys have known each others for a couple of years!

Another selection of mine would be dr. adeline's. I always like her as a lecturer (which I think would be a pleasure to be her friend because my friend who's hers and her hubby's personal friend, said they are a pair of good-humoured couple).
i think there are quite a number of biotechs going for her titles due to:
1. we pretty much like her. she's very approachable and will be available during the 3 months for us to discuss FYP stuff with her.
2. her titles are not too bad. we were taught the skills which we needed.

btw...dr. Khoo...is he that one lecturer who jumped from monash uni's boat to utar? if he's the one, my friends told me that he's really good! i'm not sure what subjects he teaches but i think it's chemistry-related..

ahhh...okay..my mind is pretty set. I think it's either dr. lim or dr. chew....will be seeing them on monday!

wow! seriously many are interested in dr. wong ching lee's titles? how so?



p/s dr anthony is good with story telling...a pretty good lecturer i must say but haha..since i'm having phytochemistry this semester and well...i'm not too confidence theoretically...so...i'll just avoid that title...LOL

Dr. Teh is a nice lecturer. For your info, she is one of the MOSTI sponsored lecturer and her main project is about the magnetostatic bacteria. The bioluminescence bacteria project is definitely interesting ! My friend had written in a proposal for Dr. Soon to consider about water plankton/microorganism that could produce interesting "light" at nite. Haha. She is considering his project, since its an individual proposal. However, a piece of advice, the dengue project by Dr. Soon involve A LOT immunology work rather than molecular work according to her. Hence, if you dont like immunology stuff, better dont take that. It would be hell according to her if you cant understand all the terms and principle.

Dr. Khoo. Should be that one. Not sure thou, I have heard about him from an ex senior. But not sure how true is it. I only know he is very friendly. BTW, you mean Dr. Kho or Dr. Khoo. So far I only know there is a Dr. Gideon Khoo. Haha.

Will be seeing, Dr. Kho, Dr. Teh and Dr. Loo on Monday ! Weeeee. I am excited about FYP. I

Im doing Lux gene amplification of bioluminescence bacteria under Dr. Kho

This post has been edited by MirageGSR: Jul 26 2008, 09:02 PM

i heard utar kinna so strict.fail 2 times out of the school.is that true?

Hey, so wat is the work scope ?

Herm. Yes. But you can always appeal and repeat your semester. Keep repeating until you can get a CGPA > 2.0.

Workscope include culture of luminescnce bacteria (streak plate), isolation of single colony (luminescent broth), DNA extraction (many methods can be used), Gel electrophoresis (1 after DNA extraction and another after PCR), Polymerase chain reaction, Bacterial antibiotic resistance test, sequencing (i didn't manage to do this, not enough time for me hehe) etc....

This post has been edited by MirageGSR: Jul 27 2008, 12:36 PM

Means you're in your final sem now, since u already did the project?

Mind sharing if you've faced any problems of contamination, or repeating ur project many times?

so u can actually end it without doing all the testing?
do you have any frens who are with DR.chew choy hoong or Dr.anthony for their fyp? any opinion on both of the lecturers? coz i'm having dilemma on who to choose for my 1st choice. thanks ya ^^

Hi aki,

End it without testing?

Well, no major problems faced except that i'm not really familiar some techniques so have to repeat until the desired results were obtained

Actually repeating experiments is quite a common thing regardless of what wet lab subject you choose.....not a big deal

Most of my mates are under Dr. Wong, Dr. Teh, Dr. Gideon.....

Managed to meet Dr. Kho, Dr. Loo and Dr. Soon today. Dr. Kho's metal accumulating bacteria project is my first choice, thou I might choose another one cause its very challenging and time consuming. The luminescence bacteria thingy sounds interesting as well, but I wanna listen to Dr Teh luminescnce bacteria part first, before making decision.

As for Dr. Loo, as usual, she expect the student to be super hardworking and do a lot preparation. Expect some tough time communicating with her. I find the project offer by her is interesting and I have done a bit on the extraction oil and lipase during my training. However, I dont think I can work well under Dr. Loo. And to those interested, remember to submit a proposal. Dr.Loo wants it by Monday.

I also met dr. soon...(shld correct myself...haha...i typed he instead of she...'coz didn't know until today.. *_*) ...her isolation of dengue antigen is mostly on ELISA and SDS-page.

she is SO approachable and friendly and i was supposed to go for lecture but me and my friend just sat there and talked with her..haha

and dr. chew...gosh..i was intimidated. she came out and asked, what you want?
er...FYP inquiries, ma'am
it's all listed in under the scopes. the title is only told when you are selected.

uhm...well...i was never taught by her...but i supposed i must really know my stuff if i wanted to go under her.

and...yea...it is supposed to be dr. khoo. anyways...i myself have only heard of dr. gideon khoo. haha...

sighs...now i've written down my choices...fingers crossed that I'm going to get chosen.

This post has been edited by jenzl: Jul 28 2008, 05:33 PM

it was another UTAR-electricity-cut-off DAY again.....ahahaha...class was cancelled and so I followed along my coursemates to meet the lecturers.

today i have met:

Dr. Chew (again): jenzl, i think dr.chew is fed up with answering us so many times so she reacted like that to u...actually she is good. or maybe bcoz she taught us b4. she will be leaving to kampar mid-dec so her fyp will surely be finished within 2 mths...it will be fast. All our senior has done her exp, 2 batches of them and the protocols are all prepared. No worries!!!!

Dr. Sit: His exp is easy to conduct, cheap material ( your choice of plant). no equipment involve, bacteria culture, and he said student with moderate speed can finish the exp in a month's time....yea! sounds great rite?

Dr.Woo: for her exp, u gotta come out with your methods, she is not providing that to you. gotta read up from journals. to those who dun have initiative to search for info and independent enuff, prepare to die la...hehe

my 1st choice is still DR.anthony.....i hope i get his project!!!!!!!!!!!!

good luck to all of u too^^

did u go see dr woo bout 11am today?

coincidentially she said the same thing when we were talking to her just now.

i've only met one lecturer so far. well, catching up tomorrow.

hi SuN_RaE198,
I went there about after 12pm....forgotten wat time aldy.....
u saw me? hehe^^