HMMMPHHH :(

Monday, 22nd September 2014

Today's diary will be better than before. Why? Because I am jealous with the diary that Dr.Wan showed in class. This does not mean I want Dr. Wan to show my diary to everyone. I envy the diary's owner's effort to search more details and information about what we have learned. As this is the spirit that Dr. Wan want in everyone of us, I will try to have it in myself and make this diary as my kind of short notes.

Here it comes! As usual, before the class start once again I hear the word that I hate; ASSIGNMENT. There are a few changes on our project Adopt A Microbe. And know what, I have to do another assignment INDIVIDUALLY. I don't know what others feel but for me, I WANNA GO HOME NOW! Adopt A Microbe project has changed to Thank A Microbe, which will be more focusing on a microbe's application such as in food, environment, medical, agriculture and industry. Adopt A Microbe project still has to be done but individually I hate this and in a form of scrapbook.

ASSIGNMENT AND PROJECT DATELINE

• Diary : Every Sunday before 11.59 pm
• E-Portfolio : 21st December 2014
• Decided microbe : 7th October 2014
• Thank A Microbe : 18th October 2014
• Adopt A Microbe : 9th December 2014

Fuhh! *Wipe forehead 

Now, let's see what I have learned. Today's topics are History Of Microbiology and Microscopy.

HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY

• Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek - handcrafted-microscope, the first to observed single-celled organism(animalcules)
• Robert Hooke - Micrographia, study on thin slices of cork, coined "cell", Cell Theory(all living thins are composed of cells)
• Spontaneous generation(life arise spontaneously from non-living matter) vs Biogenesis( living cells can only arise from preexisting living cells) - Louis Pasteur
• Robert Korh - Koch's Postulate
• Edward Jenner - coined the term "vaccination"

MICROSCOPY

• Light microscope : bright-field, dark-field, phase contrast, fluorescence, confocal
• Electron microscope - SEM