Faaiza Museji

Faaiza, please ask your question on http://plus.google.com/ - Dr Alan Cann

When I open that link it tells me: Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Thanks for your patience! - Faaiza Museji

You must be logged into a Google apps account, log out and try again. - Dr Alan Cann

I can't download it :( - Mehrine Elahee

I'm sorry this is not working at present. As I've said in a previous thread, I've contacted Dr Dickens to try to correct the format - you do not need to access this before writing the report (the information in the lecture is far too detailed for the expt you are writing up) - Dr Chris Willmott

and by what time? - Faaiza Museji

You're right, Maryam, it says so on BB: Practical books are to be handed in to Room 129/130 MSB by 12.00 noon Thursday, 3rd March 2011 - Faaiza Museji

Are you using a mac by any chance? apparently there have been reported issues with it. I reckon you would have to install the toolpack on any windows operating system. Hope this was helpful. - Munaf khamisa

It's not that as I'm using Windows 7, but thanks anyway. - Faaiza Museji

It's working okay for me at the moment? - Zainab Chaudhary

yeah, it works now, it was down for about 10 minutes in the library earlier. - Faaiza Museji

Thanks - MOHAMMED AZIZ-UR REHMAN

The first week of semester 2 has whizzed by, which is a huge relief because I’m exhausted, the new timetable is definitely going to take a bit of getting used to. Especially Thursday’s! I have a lot less free time then last term, but with the free time I plan to utilise it productively by keeping up-to-date with lecture notes, practical write-ups and so forth, thus not allowing my work load to accumulate, which hopefully should result in a more relaxed stress free weekend. Is there a minimum world limit for #MyDiary entries? - Faaiza Museji

There is no word limit - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

ive been drawing out mechanisms and diagrams, it helps with memorising the lengthy wordy process! - Mohamed

no one seems to be answering this for a while now :S - Syeda Maham Batool

its emant to be up late this evening. We're all waiting for it! - Mohamed

Welldone :) - Syeda Maham Batool

very good. thats my targer when i get better! - Mohamed

I found this useful link related to Dr Christine Wells’s #BS1015 lectures. You may find it useful for revision as each of the sub-topics have been condensed to one page. - Faaiza Museji from Bookmarklet

Go to 'Practicals ('wet' & 'dry'' sessions)' in 'Course Documents', and scroll down. - Faaiza Museji

You are right. LDH catalyses the conversion of pyruvate to lactate, concomitantly oxidising NADH to NAD+. The latter reaction is accompanied by a decrease in absorbance at 340 nm - Hasan Mohamed

Page 67 of the green folder! - Hasan Mohamed

I don't think we can resit if we get over 40%. I spoke to my mentor about this a while ago, and we can only retake a test if we fail it. Though, I'm not sure if multiple choice exams work the same way. - Roshan Rupra

One person told me 7 minutes and someone else said 8-10 minutes. - Faaiza Museji

It should be around 8-10 minutes. They'll stop you if you go over the time limit - Gulshana Choudhury

We never got to see them next year. The idea of the past papers is to give you an idea of what the exam in January will be like and how the questions are asked. - Lyndsey Wright

I think that having to find out the answers for myself made me remember them better in the exam. If you are guessing answers you don't understand the material well enough and need to work on it. If you do that you will know that your answer is right without a mark scheme. The help sessions are there to help with with material that you don't understand. - Roisin Thomas

Well Done :) - Mehak Hussain

well done faaiza:) - Fatma Alzahra AlMahrouqi

"http://www.youtube.com/watch..." - Faaiza Museji from Bookmarklet

Google Reader is neither an addiction nor an annoyance. I think impartial would be a better description of my attitude towards it. Given, I haven’t contributed as much as I’d hoped, partly because I’ve found many of the articles don’t relate to my degree modules or they are too complex. But that is going to change drastically, as I want to improve my current predicted mark for FriendFeed. I plan to achieve this by subscribing to more feeds, as I’m currently only subscribed to 5, this will hopefully broaden the scope of articles and journals available to me that contain information and research that are relevant to my modules. - Faaiza Museji

Try and find some more feeds that suit you better - ask here for help? - Dr Alan Cann

We get the water essay back next week in the tutorial. I'm guessing the genomics essay will be given back to us some time next week too. - Mehak Hussain

The following article relates to the topic I have been allocated for the #MB1030 assessed presentation. Statins are a class of drug that are prescribed to patients with an abnormally high level of cholesterol; they work by reducing cholesterol synthesis in the liver. And although low cholesterol is usually considered a good thing, a recent study shows that a low level of cholesterol could have links to reduced brain function. The study found a link between untreated diabetes (which affects cholesterol synthesis) and the reduction of the amount of cholesterol available to the brain. The study involved monitoring the activity of genes involved in cholesterol production in the hypothalamus of mice with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and comparing results against those of healthy mice. The results showed that brain activity was reduced by 25 per cent in both groups of diabetic mice. But when these were treated with insulin, the effect was reversed. This suggests that drugs that lower... - Faaiza Museji

That was a really interesting article. Although I'm not doing about statins, it is relevant to the lipids topic in #BS1015 as well, especially after the tutorial about cholesterol. I never knew a QUARTER of the body's cholesterol was used in the brain! And myelin sheaths of nerve cells contain two thirds of the CNS's cholesterol. - Zainab Chaudhary

Mine was too but I don't think that it is going to be rescheduled. We'll probably cover the material that we missed in the next tutorial:) - Gulshana Choudhury

yeh dont think its rescheduled. - Syeda Maham Batool

Totally agree with you Faaiza :). - Neelam Dave

You sure? I thought that for one of them... I think I got it in the end. - Aneeka Ul-Haq

Congrats :D. - Aneeka Ul-Haq

me too.. i think we worked well as a group :) - Novpreet Rainer