Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Class phototaking by the school will be done tomorrow after exams. So please put on some make up, wear nicer clothes and sleep more to remove dark eye rings LOL. After that we have our own unofficial phototaking and then the the business people have to get down to doing Bioinnovation.
-melf-


Thursday, August 24, 2006

Allocation of projects and IAP places will be made known on the 8th of Sep 2006, time yet to be confirmed. All students have to come for this.

Drug D presentation for journal 2 is here, but I doubt it's going to be of much help. The journal paper is much more complete.

http://www.angelfire.com/linux/ashlar/journal2.ppt
right click, save target as.
-melf


Sunday, August 20, 2006

Epidemiology Lect 1 answers to blanks

Epidemiologic Triad of Infectious Diseases
- Host

Definition of Epidemiology
- Epidemiology is... population.

Purpose of Epidemiology
1. Identify... occurence of disease.
2. Assess... preventive and therapeutic treatments.

Application of Epidemiology
- But... non-infectious diseases.
- Added... non-disease epidemiology

Risk factors
- Risk factors are characteristics...

Risk Factors in Infectious Diseases
- Risk factor here is promiscuous behaviour
- Lack of personal hygiene is a risk factor
- Risk factor here is smoking

Epidemiological Approach
1. Definition of the disease
2. The cause, aetiology
5. How to prevent it
- AIDS stands for Acquired...
- Infected pregnant women... breast feeding.
- How to control it- Nucleoside analogues... protease inhibitor
- How to prevent it- No vaccine.

Limitations of Epidemiology
1. Association and Causation

the END

tasha =>


HIV lecture answers to blanks

Structure of HIV
Genus - lentivirus
linear ss positive RNA genome
5' end methylated cap

HIV genome organisation
structural proteins - Gag, Env (cancel out Pol)
regulatory proteins - Tat, Rev, Pol

Virulence factors for Viruses
- promote attachment

Env gene
- glycosylated and cleaved...

Regulation of env gene
- when rev deleted... protein undetectable...

Attachment
- cytokine receptor

But why did CD4+ cells disappear?
3. Syncytia Formation

Current CDC definition of AIDS
- CD4 cell count below 200

the End

tasha :)


Wednesday, August 09, 2006

We'd like to congratulate Lee Ting Feng for getting like, 10 tops for modules in Year 2. Because he still was part of our class last time! Haha.

We'd also like to congratulate Lau Yu Hua for getting first in Industrial Micro(Matthew module leh, difficult to score. Haha) Yay!

Study for PCT people.

Principles 1, 2
Subject's safety 3, 6, 7, 9
Information to start trial 4, 5
Qualification of investigator 8
Record keeping 10, 11
Study product 12
Quality control 13
-melf-


Monday, August 07, 2006

week 17

hey ppl! :)

EBM lecture and tutorial tomorrow tuesday - dun forget to watch the bill gates video and do ur tut. MBID assignment hardcopy due.
no proteomics tutorial tomorrow. proteo tut will be done together with friday's revision lecture.
r & d ppl, study for stem cell test tomorrow.
there is national day celebration tomorrow. compulsory for all to attend (National Education requirement). i think it's 3-6pm not sure.
wed national day! =) no class, dun come to school ^.^
thursday we all have PCT test. jia you!! :)
drug devt tutorial after the test at 4pm. please do ur RA approval tutorial.
friday bioprocess ppl have a test, dun forget to study.
friday we have proteomics revision lecture and mass tutorial. be there or be square.

finally, sorry for the haphazard post. dun really haf time to do everything nicely. my stem cells, EBM and PCT awaits! =) haha

tasha ^.^


Sunday, August 06, 2006

MBID journal summary hand in Monday via email or Tuesday(hard copy).
-melf-


Wednesday, August 02, 2006

qUOtE oF thE wEEk!! :)

"yOU cAn nEVer waLK pASt a pOOR peRSoN aND nOT hAve aNYthiNG tO gIVE."

-anonymous


Tuesday, August 01, 2006

It's Priscilia's birthday today,
so - Happy 19th Birthday!


 

://Tag-board

://Females

1.Cheryl
2.Evelyn(Rep)
3.FoongYing
4.Ismath
5.Katherine
6.MeiKee
7.MeiXi
8.Natasha
9.Nicole
10.Palvin
11.PeiLing
12.Priscilia
13.Saz
14.Shakeila(Joined us for IM)
15.Stella(Now in mb0405)
16.WaiLeng(New member of the class)
17.YiHui(New member of the class)
18.YuHua

://Males

1.Alwyn
2.Antony
3.Darren(Withdrawn)
4.Dick
5.Eugene
6.Fahmy(Withdrawn)
7.Gabriel(Withdrawn)
8.Harry(NS)
9.Jasper
10.Joe(New member of the class)
11.Justin(Joined us for Bioinfo)
12.Kah Kiat
13.Keith
14.Linus
15.Melvin(Rep)
16.MingFui
17.Seetaram(Now in mb0405)
18.Stanley(Withdrawn)
19.TingFeng(Now in mb0405)
20.XieChen

://Links

Antony
Kah Kiat
Katherine
Linus
Mei Kee
Melvin
Natasha
Genomes - online text
NYP homepage
CMS

://Modules

Year 3, Semester 2
~Industrial Attachment Project
~Final Year Project

://Past Chapters

  • December 2004
  • January 2005
  • February 2005
  • March 2005
  • April 2005
  • May 2005
  • June 2005
  • July 2005
  • August 2005
  • September 2005
  • October 2005
  • November 2005
  • December 2005
  • January 2006
  • February 2006
  • March 2006
  • April 2006
  • May 2006
  • June 2006
  • July 2006
  • August 2006
  • September 2006
  • October 2006
  • November 2006
  • December 2006
  • January 2007
  • February 2007
  • Get awesome blog templates like this one from BlogSkins.com