2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine- may interest you

Dear all...

Hooray...u've completed your promoz exams!:) Hope you've done your best!!

For those of you who are interested, the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2009 goes to the trio for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/adv.pdf

take some time to rest and have FUN!:)

Cheers
Ms Chen

09S05 in Aadiperukku

Dear all....
I think Bindu and her team did a wonderful job in organizing Aadiperukku! Despite her busy academic schedule, she was and still is committed to Tamil Lang Society!Let's give her a BIG hand!!:)

JOanne and her choir members were emerged in their Tamil song performance, which impressed the Guest Of Honour so much that he kept commending them infornt of Mrs Tan!!

Rose and Afiqa dressed up so nicely when they attended to ceremony (to support Bindu of course!). Mei Yu and Zi Han decided to come along to experience Indian culture!

I think overall we had great time knowing more about our Indian friends and their culture!:D

Hope you'll have a great one week 'break' ahead of you!!!

Ms Chen

THANK YOU 09S05

Dearest 09S05...

THANK YOU for the bouquet of purple orchids & cookiessssss!:)
love them....
thanks thankssss....
Hope you'll have a restful day tmr!

Cheerioz
Ms Chen

Happy Belated Birthday Jon & Pearlyn

Dear Jonathan & Pearlyn & the rest of 09S05,

Happy belated birthday!!! hope you both had lotsa fun in the class with your classmates, especially with our dear Melissa who can BAKE superb cakessss!:D
(I've got little somthing for both of you as well...:) remind me to pass them to you on Monday lar!)


Thanks Mel for offering the delicious cake to me...hope they werent the leftovers...hahaha...I love especially the banana cakes!!!!hehe...help me thank your mom too!!

Would like to again encourage those of you who did not managed to pass the previous Bio test, not to give up, as you've heard from Rose, Jonathan & Mei Yu that, it is really possible for you to excel if you are willing to put in effort and of course with smart study methods!

For those of you who have improved, MeiYu, Rose, Jonathan, Nadiah, Jane, Vanessa, Afiqa etc etc.... WELL DONE!:) & keep it up,k!!!

Class, please study real hard for the coming SPA (Friday), it'll consist of 7.5% of your overall Biology A-level results, if you've done well, you'll secure this 7.4% already! Do not take it lightly,k!

Jia you!

Ms Chen

Bio lesson venue for week 8 and week 9

Hi 09S05,

Bio tutorial for week 8 (both Mon and Tues) @ j2-78, while Bio prac @ Comp lab 2

Bio tutorial for week 9 (Mon) @ J2-80 and (Tues) @ J2-78, Bio Prac- ACTUAL SPA!!!

All the best in your Chem SPA this Friday!!

Ms Chen

Apologies from Ms Chen

Dear all,

I would like to apologize for making quite a few mistakes during the lesson just now. Was really lethargic (I know most of you were tired too), admit that I couldnt fully focus...:S
I've tried my best too...:) I know many of you were! thanks for giving me the attention!!:D

Please alert me next time if you realize I said something wrong, k? Thanks Ahmad and Zul for doing so!:) Appreciate that!

Regarding the action of activator proteins-->when it binds to enhancer--> cause the DNA to bend (by DNA bending proteins), recruit the mediator proteins to STABILIZE the Transcription Initiation Complex. After the initiation, the bent DNA would revert back, only RNA polymerase would continue with the elongation of RNA strand. Therefore, many RNA polymerases could transcribe a gene at the same time.

(let me know if you still cant get it...)

Ms Chen

Class CIP

Hi S05! this is a big thank you to those of you who went down yesterday to RDA for the class cip. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves helping out and I know the horses are an incentive but please keep in mind that the organisation desperately needs our help in ensuring that their activities can run smoothly. To those who went down yesterday, I am really proud of you all as each of you have displayed enthusiasm and maturity and I hope that you all can keep this up in the coming weeks when there are more things to be done.

I hope to see more of you going down in the coming weeks to help out and if you do not know the way, you can always ask ahmad, afiqa, rose, joleen, joanne, jon, nicholas, zul, mei yu, jane, wan xiu or me for directions.

Cheers! :)
Caroline
(pics will be up soon...)