2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 9 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 63 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 105mb. That’s about a picture per week.
The busiest day of the year was January 12th with 191 views. The most popular post that day was People.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were mail.yahoo.com, mail.live.com, forestgenomics.com, google.com.my, and morpheus.calm.unimas.my.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for naib canselor unimas, kelampayan, kelampayan tree, ho wei seng, and fgil.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
People January 2010
IUFRO Kuala Lumpur 2010 February 2010
About January 2010
Activities January 2010
Cadamomics January 2010
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International Symposium on Forestry and Forest Products (ISFFP) 2010
Best Poster Award – FIRST PRIZE
in conjunction with the organization of
International Symposium on Forestry and Forest Products (ISFFP) 2010
5-7 October 2010, The Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Genetic Diversity of Kelampayan using Dominant DNA markers Based on Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) in Sarawak
by Ho Wei Seng, Liew Kit Siong, Elias Abu Bakar, Fedrick Brinau Julin, Mohamad Khairil Mohd Asyawandie and Phui Seng Loi
BiotechCol3
Biotechnology: How far have we gone?
Biotechnology Colloquium 3, Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology (FRST), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Multimedia Theatre, FRST, 24-25 May 2010
List of Presented Papers (from fGiL)
Plenary Speaker: Dr Ho Wei Seng – From conservation to innovation: Building research capacity for planted forest development in Sarawak.
Oral Speaker 1: Phui Seng Loi – Development of SSR markers for Neolamarckia cadamba (Kelampayan).
Oral Speaker 2: Grace Ting Jen Ching – Development of SCAR markers for sex determination in Canarium odontophyllum Miq. (Dabai).
Oral Speaker 3: Liew Kit Siong – Development and polymorphism of SSR markers for Duabanga moluccana Blume (Sawih).
Oral Speaker 4: Tiong Shing Yiing – Genetic diversity of Neolamarckia cadamba (Kelampayan) in Sarawak using ISSR markers.
Oral Speaker 5: Tchin Boon Ling – Gene associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H) and cinnamy alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) genes from Acacia mangium superbulk trees.
Oral Speaker 6: Lai Pei Sing – Development and characterization of expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers from Neolamarckia cadamba (Kelampayan) tree transcriptome (NcdbEST).
ITEX’10
The 21st International Invention Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX’10) Creativity: Pathway to innovative economy
14-16 May 2010 – Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre – Malaysia
Project: Building research capacity for planted forest development in Sarawak
1Ho Wei Seng, 2Pang Shek Ling, 1Lai Pei Sing, 1Liew Kit Siong, 2Phui Seng Loi, 1Nurfaizah Matra, 1Tiong Shing Yiing, 1Tchin Boon Ling, 1Ismail Jusoh, 1Cheksum Tawan, 1Petrus Bulan and 2Julaihi Abdullah
A joint-venture project between 1Faculty of Resource Science and Technology-Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and 2Sarawak Forestry Corporation
Result: Silver Medal. Congratulations!
UNIMAS-MABIC-MPBCRC-MOE
Biotechnology Workshop for Teachers: Get into Genes
18 MAY 2010Jointly organized by the fGil, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, MABIC and the Molecular Plant Breeding CRC, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, Melbourne
(Extracted from http://www.bic.org.my/?action=events&do=body94)
Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) has been organizing biotechnology workshops for teachers in collaboration with the Ministry of Education for the past three years. Last year, MABIC created a milestone by organizing these workshops outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. This tradition is to be continued this year with a value-added feature.
MABIC has been fortunate this time to collaborate with Dr. Belinda Griffiths from Molecular Plant Breeding CRC, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, Melbourne. MPBCRC has a proven track record in science education and collaborative partnerships, running successful post-graduate biotechnology education workshops as well as Get into Genes, the award-winning biotechnology workshop for schools, in partnership with the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics.
For the first time, this workshop will be conducted in East Malaysia, hosted by the Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The objective of the workshop is to broaden the understanding among the science teachers in the secondary schools of biotechnology. It is hoped that this workshop will enhance their pedagogy and the teachers will be able to provoke the interest of the students in the field of biotechnology. This is crucial to create a pool of knowledge workers to fuel the growing biotechnology industry in Malaysia.
The decision to conduct this workshop in Sarawak was to enable resource-poor teachers to have access to research facilities and experts in the area of biotechnology, and expose them to the applications of modern biotechnology. The teachers will have hands-on experience in DNA extraction, fingerprinting and simple bioinformatics tools. Twenty teachers from around Kuching will attend this workshop.
