Biotechnology Field trip2-Wild life center

Hi everyone, sorry for the long silent 

had been busy and also run out of article to write about

ok~

Few days ago, we are on another trip to the fisheries in Kuching

It is a governmental department which supply all the fries to all the industries

All the fish specialist in Kuching  can be found in that single place

It was located not far from town, and can be reach within half an hour by bus.

I would not say it is a easy place to find, but totally worth the effort

they actually have a few tanks that contains humongous amount of fishes

Ropes that secure the pond for the fishes

pipes for water supply and also recirculation of water 

Finally, some fishy~~~

And some biotech playing with fish

This was found around the open air pond which the fish live in, according to non-reliable sources, it was actually the egg of snails~
which could be possibly truth judging by the amount of snalls crawling along them

a wooden bridge, old but 

solid

and again, some biotech playing with fishy, it a game called Earth quake

Then, we move on to Public  toilet ~!!

haha, joking, it actually a sing in the botanical research center
you have to pay RM1 for the entrance, but was totally worth the prize 

Some pitcher plant on the roadside

A nostalgic pond, legend said that your watch will actually stop working if you  jump into this pool

and yes, this pond actually stop time~!!!!!

no idea whats the name, but it was cute and green

slow down~~~~

ok, move on

another pitcher plant, now on a tree

orang utan-orang utans

A mother and a child, sometime the child pee on their mother

another one~~eating

Happy orang utan viewers~~

Tallllllllllll treeee

yet another weird plant

not yet another normal plant

now a small normal plant

some happy biotech and  a cement orang utan.

I suppose every one were happy according to this photo

Sorry for the not so informative post, my next article about autoclave machine and PCR machine.

possible also UPS and some new micro-pipettes~~~

thanks for watching everyone

have a nice day

Swinburne Biotechnology Field Trip--Beach Sample collection

Hello everyone~~~~

Last week we went to a hypermarket to learn science 

and now

we are heading to a beach for Sample collection

i know it might sound a but absurd

but yes..this is part of our subject and you might fail for not going~!!!!

Destination: Pasir PanJang

Traveling time: 45minutes from Swinburne

This a roughly were it is located..hmmm
not really a helpful picture  i suppose

try to google youself~~wahaha

Coordinates: 1°41'42"N   110°18'31"E

So, first of all

we had to squeeze into a small bus to reach the destination...science is never an easy job..

Dont worry, this bus is still air conditioned

with the mean temperature of about 30 degree Celsius inside the bus..........

= =

Now for the nice part~~~

my Favorite photo~~~a small plant thriving under shades

A view of the always Famous Pasir panjang

Sometime got stuck inside the sand~~~yap, is a coconut

The Rock~!!!!

And another plant growing in the middle of the beach

Rocky beach~~`mostly a result of volcanic eruption thousand years ago

Resting under a shady trees after a tedious work done~

Feets after sample collection

A last view of Pasir Panjang before we headed back~~~

As always..Lab analysis for Oil digesting and Bio-luminescent bacteria 

Result might be up next week~~stay tune~!

See you next time

BYe~~~~~

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Biotechnology Road Show~!

Light are on and films are rolling

Thats a start for Swinburne road show~!!!

Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Swinburne Sarawak came out with a advertising road show in Spring shopping mall. As always, the school of science were involved.

The basic theme of the show was the technology that were involved in the famous TV series CSI: crime scene investigation.

this involved things like  DNA extraction, and polymerase chain reaction.

the picture below shows the basic setup of the tools needed for THE analysis.

And also, microscopic slide were introduced. a smoker's lung slide and a healthy lung slide were placed to educate the public that it was never a good habit to smoke.

Dissecting microscope ~~basically they have an magnification of .8-3.5x on the objective lens where and 10x magnification on the eye pieces.

Another dissecting microscope with a dead butterfly as the specimen.

The picture below shows a head of a dragon fly.

 Next, we also have an array of colorful transition metal salt for display~

 A few packs of Lanolin for hand cream making~they were wrapped into a candy for easy transportation. 

The lanolin above is then mixed into one of the beakers below and two phases were mixed with a chopstick violently. 

and poof~! that's an home made hand cream

You can actually made these hand-cream if  you had things like paraffin, glycerol and cetyl-alcohol.

just leave a comment if you need the recipe 

and that's hand cream floating on a cloud on a hot pan~

samples to be given as souvenir. 

used beakers~~with left-over hand cream~~

Dry ice were also show in the road show as they attracted a hell lot of people~!

And lastly, a biotech student posting at the stall

can also visit her blog: http://juliahosingfang.blogspot.com/
ok everyone~~bye for now

and hi for next time~!

hope you Enjoy~~~~