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A Talk on Microbes: Last but not least, there was also a Q&A session. The students were asking

The Good and Bad questions about education, pathway and future vision of biomedicals. Well, the
UM students went through them patiently and answered each of them with
On June 18th of 2022, a talk regarding microbes was held by Year 2 University humour.
Malaya Biomedical Science students. Senior Middle One students from Kuen
Cheng High School were invited to participate. Students from Sr1ScD and At the end of the Talk, the professor of UM biomedical gave a brief speech. After
Sr1ScE joined the Talk via the Zoom video platform on this particular day. that, Mr Ooi Hun Huang, Assistant Head of the School Academic Department,

delivered a speech as well to thank the organisers and UM students.
At the beginning, the emcees, Richard and Sofea greeted us with a warm welcome.
They proceeded to introduce microbes, also known as microorganisms. After Our students were full-filled with this Talk and looking forward to having
the introduction, the UM students played a video regarding an experiment of another opportunity to attend Talk on similar scientific subjects.

how to differentiate gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.

Students were divided into 5 different groups and sorted into Zoom breakout Jointly reported by:
rooms accordingly. We played a game of identifying the cause of outbreaks in Goh Yu Xin Sr1ScD
various countries as medical microbiology scientists. The cases studied were Lee Hong Qing Sr1ScD

Typhoid Mary, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia Coli, and mycobacterium.

The second activity was explaining how microbes are involved in climate change.

Terrestrial microbes like rhizobium, form symbiotic relationships with roots
of a plant for nitrogen fixation. Marine microbes, for example dinoflagellates,
are an important group of phytoplankton that produce oxygen in marine
environments. On the contrary, microbes that are harmful to the environment
include vicicitus globulus, which increases CO2 levels, and microcystis, a

freshwater cyanobacteria that adapts to elevated CO2 levels.

Furthermore, the third activity was the introduction of potential microbial

products. For instance, shewanella and geobacter generate electricity, they
transport electrons from microbes to nearby objects. Moreover, saccharomyces
cerevisiae, also known as yeast, serves as one of the leavening agents in the
process of fermentation.

After the Talk, students were invited to participate in a Kahoot quiz competition.
The questions prepared by the organisers were all revising the knowledge
delivered by the UM students. The students were competing fiercely to be the

champion of the game. At last, Elvin Chin Yen Koon from Sr1ScE took the
game, first runner-up was Tham Jia Huey from Sr1ScD, and the third place was
Ti Jia Min from Sr1ScE. The game was really inspiring as it gave a reinforcement
to students.

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