Last post for ALES 204

             This is the last blog post for my ALES 204 courses. These days I am a little bit sad because many courses are ended and it might be the case that it is the last time I see some classmates or professors in the University. All students might from the different faculties and they may have different schedules. I am sure that some classmates and professors will show up in the next term in my sight, but……..you know what I mean.

                                                           

ALES 204 is the most exciting course I have ever had in U OF A. As many classmates said, they have learned a lot, I also feel that this course focus more on the building of the ability of communication for different individuals. It is not like other courses that professors teach you the theory or method in a specific academic field. Jessica and Angie`s lab (also labs from other TAs) are actually helping their students build the skills of communicating professionally and efficiently with others. Knowledge from other courses in the University might be used in the future when we are well positioned in our career, while ALES 204 let us share the knowledge which we can use it to improve our communicational abilities immediately. In this way, the knowledge we have learned in this course are more practical to be used than other courses.

There were many new and exciting experiences we have gone through in this semester. We have more chances in practicing our presentation skills; we got more chances in speaking in front of the publics (many classmates); we gain the opportunity in joining the group and communicate and share our ideas with others to achieve the same goal or task.  

ALES 204 is actually a relatively new course in the university, and this course is getting better and better ( I learned that from students in higher grade). I hope that more students (who did not register this course) can register this course in the next semester, because this course is different, exciting, and making you feel more comfortable ( compared with some other difficult science course…) that every single individual in this class become best friends of each other due to the frequent communication with each other.

comments links:

1.  http://violagamma.blogspot.com/2011/11/wiki-stub-article.html?showComment=1323302175059#c4334647574649413587  (wiki stub article)
2.http://balabalabooom.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-facebook.html?showComment=1323302847609#c753971427056523393 (why facebook)
3. http://jamie-ales204.blogspot.com/2011/11/wikipedia.html?showComment=1323303219049#c3438226198180360119 (wikipedia)
4.
http://lrodvang.blogspot.com/2011/09/creating-online-business-profile.html#comment-form (creating an online business file).
5. http://kelvinwwong.blogspot.com/2011/12/queen-of-fruits.html?showComment=1323304106317#c1404302180579743259 (the queen of fruits)

wikipedia stub article

It was an amazing tour to do this assignment. Even everybody can make changes to articles on Wikipedia, wikipedia is mostly used by the public to access to academic knowledge.Statistic data shows that 95% of the information on Wikipedia is correct and can be used for proper researches. Biology is very important in the field of  food sciences. I have made some additional information about basidiospores on Wikipeida which are shown below:

In grills under a cap of one common species in the phylum of Basidiomycota, there exist millions of basidia. Mature state of basidia has the base usually topped with four basidiospores in which contains one from the two haploid nucleus obtained from the process of meiosis. Due to facts mentioned above, single mushroom has the ability to release a billion spores. Basidiomycetes form sexual spores externally from a structure called a basidium. Four basidiospores develop on appendages from each basidium. These spores serve as the main air dispersal units for the fungi. The spores are released during periods of high humidity and generally have a night-time or pre-dawn peak concentration in the atmosphere. General Structure and Shape:Basidiospores are generally characterized by an attachment peg (called a hilar appendage) on its surface. This is where the spore was attached to the basidium. The hilar appendage is quite prominent in some basidiospore, but less evident in others. An apical germ pore may also be present. Many basidiospores have an asymmetric shape due to their development on the basidium. Basidiospores are typically single-celled (without septa), and typically range from spherical to oval to to oblong, to ellipsoid or cylindrical. The surface of the spore can be fairly smooth, or it can be ornamented. Potential opportunist and Pathogen: depend on genus. Industrial uses: Edible mushrooms are used in the food industry. Potential Toxins produced:Amanitins, monomethyl-hydrazine, muscarine,ibotenic acidpsilocybin.

other comments: Basidiospores are the result of sexual reproduction and formed on a structure called the basidium.Basidiospores belong to the members of the Phylum Basidiomycota, which includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts.Here is the screen shot of this edited Wikipeida article. ALES 204 is a very interesting course because it always require you to do new things. This assignment gives me the chance to practice how to edit articles in Wikipedia and learn some basic wikipeida codes. This is an amazing experience! Lots of Fun!

Poster presentation in my biol course.

Hi guys,
Last Monday I had a poster presentation for my Biol 108 course lab section. I would like to share some information about this presentation with you guys.The topic of the presentation is mitochondrial biogenesis. Nisoli and Carruba mentioned in their essay that metabolically active cells, such as liver, kidney, muscle and brain cells, contain hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, which make up ~40% of the cytoplasm.There are said to be 10 million billion mitochondria in an adult human (i.e. ~10% of our body weight) (Nisoli et. 2006). 10% of your body weight!!! Mitochondrial biogenesis is about the formation of new mitochondria due to the reproduction of mitochondria or the changes of the shape of mitochondria. I had focused specifically on the dynamic nature of the mitochondria in my presentation, and talked about the fission and fusion processes of mitochondria. Since I cannot post the information directly from my poster, I wrote a draft about my presentation and share with u guys. 

Mitochondria are in constant movement within cells, and numerous fission and fusion events take place. These are accompanied by variations in mitochondrial size, number and mass. These events are triggered by many physiological stimuli and differentiation states. Mitochondria branch, stretch, retract and may even roll and unroll. At any given moment, they can be considered to be in a state of transition.1. Mitochondrial fusion. Fusion of mitochondria requires the sequential interaction of outer and inner membranes. Fusion of the outer membranes of two adjacent mitochondria requires low GTP levels, whereas the subsequent fusion of the inner membranes requires high GTP levels. As you can see from this picture, two mitochondria fuse together into one mitochondria in a larger size.Mitochondrial fission. Drp 1 protein in red color stands for dynamic related protein, and Fis 1 protein stand for Fission protein. Both of them are nuclear encoded proteins, not encoded inside the mitochondria by mtDNA---some nuclear encoded proteins are helping mitochondria complete the process of fission. Fission protein is localized to the mitochondrial outer membrane, whereas dynamic related protein is localized to the cytosol and punctate spots on mitochondria membrane. Some of these spots are constriction places that lead to mitochondrial fission. Dynamic related proteins form the ring to cut the mitochondria into two parts in the fission process.However, how dynamin related protein is recruited to mitochondria is unclear. We don`t know if dynamin related protein is attracted by mitochondria or it comes actively. The dynamic nature of mitochondria might protect them by ensuring that regional losses of membrane that caused by local depletion of metabolic substrates or mtDNA, are always transient. In particular, mitochondrial fusion enables intermitochondrial cooperation by allowing exchange of membrane and matrix components; Therefore, it can help to restore local depletion and maintain functions of mitochondria.

Enzo Nisoli and Michele O. Carruba also have done many researches about mitochondria biogenesis and its connection with Nitric Oxide. If you are curious about my field of study, click that link, there will be lots of information. See u guys! 

Facebook business page.

Today I created my new facebook page which is used for business purpose. I am very excited about it because the facebook profile I used to have was just to contact my classmates and friends around me. Now, I can use my new business profile to introduce my business and introduce my self about the personal experience. 

Every time you go for an interview, your manager will give you limited time that you can use to introduce yourself. I feel time is so little that you can only introduce "part" of you. Now I have my business page that manager can log in his facebook account and spend his time on my well prepared profile. 

By the way... I really like ALES 204. It always gives me new experiences and things I have never done before in my life. 

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Hello all.

Thanks to ALES 204, I have my own blog today. I did not have a blog until I register this course: communication theory and practice.

My name is Chen.I came from china, and a city called Harbin. Harbin is one of the sister citys of Edmonton. Harbin has been the sister city of Edmonton since 1985.  If you go to Chinatown, there is a road called: "Harbin Road". Yeah.....!! That is the name of my hometown, that I am so proud of it!

I am a second year student in the Faculty of ALES. My major is Food business management. I was in the Faculty of Engineering in U OF A in 2010. To be honest, I did not feel comfortable to study in the Engineering Faculty. Finally I find that the Faculty of Ales would be more suitable for me to finish my degree. Food business is one of the largest businesses in the world. Today, more and more health concern has been come into people`s sight. R u 100% sure food u just had for your launch is healthy for you? Is it going to cause problems such as being dizzy, over weight and tired? To solve these problem and to make me healthier, I choose to learn my major- Food business management, which is about both food science and business operations behind food tradings.

During the study in the Faculty of ALES, I have to do many researches about food science. Also, many business courses require students to finish the group project. Social media tools have helped me a lot to do these researches and  projects. I can contact my partners anytime for free. All group members can share there solutions together with link or articles posted in their blog. one clever idea can be immediately  posted by twitter, and this particular idea can be shared by all members of the group in less than one second...... such examples are a lot more.Social media tools play an important role in the share of ideas and solutions, and make the study more convenient and efficient for social media tools users.

Thank you to view my blog. 

My best.