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Heya peeps

Have realised that the PHIL1002 link was broken (idk for how long haha), but it's fixed now! Please let me know if you find any other content where the links do not work & I'll get to it.

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Hello there!

I'm heartened (& amazed) to see that this site is still getting visitors. A big thank you to everyone who has come by!

Just wanted to let you guys know that I have been periodically checking the inbox of this page every 2-3 months, so do feel free to drop a message or any questions you might have. It has been several years since I graduated from UWA but I am happy to help where possible(:

P.s I realised that the practice question link in the 'Topics' page was broken, I have fixed that & it's working now. Do let me know if you come across any missing content/broken links!

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oh i just saw more on your about me page! you’re from singapore!! i’m in malaysia myself doing remote learning with UWA (it sucks big time lol) but feels so nice to know you’re so close to home! hope working at the community centre is going alright and do be safe!

Yes I am! Hello geographical neighbour(: Aw man, I personally can't imagine doing an entire degree online but I hope you're finding ways to manage & maximise this remote education experience. Work is alright, we are vaccinating lots of people daily here, no shortage of excitement haha. Thanks for checking in, the safety of our vaccinees & staff is paramount. You stay safe & keep well too yeah! (tahan the MCO okay)

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hello <3 i just wanted to drop in to say thank you for this repository. it's helped me a lot during my semester remote learning. i’m overwhelmed and exhausted and decided to defer for the next academic year, but your notes helped me during the leadup to online exams this last sem. just want to express my eternal gratitude for your selflessness and genuine intention to help others who were/are in your shoes. hope you’re doing well and having great days <3

Hello, sorry to hear that it's been an overwhelming & draining ride with remote learning. I imagine it was a tough decision to defer the semester, I'm proud that you made the call that's best for yourself all around. Self care is really important so don't put that on the wayside. No worries, I'm glad my desire to help has reached you through the screen, that certainly is the ethos of this site. Wishing you great days ahead as well(:

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Hello, this is not a question but I just wanted to thank you for all your notes and hints. I took MICR2008 this semester and you really helped me out for the final exam. I got my results back the other day and I did quite well so I just wanted to say thank you for being kind and helping other students :) I wish you all the best!

Awesome sauce, your efforts have paid off! MICR2208 was a great unit, I love microbio hehe. No worries, hope that this site will keep on giving so do share it with your mates. Cheers & thanks for the well wishes(:

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aside from that, thank you so much wei ern for your selfless act of helping other students dedicate themselves to their own degrees with the quality of your notes. it's helped me a lot personally! <3

Hey there, thanks alot for sticking around since before my 2021 update(: I really appreciate it & also considered your previous message carefully. Haha I wouldn't go so far as to call this selfless! I believe that if you're able to utilise these resources in a way that best helps yourself, that is payment in itself & I'm very glad.

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idk why you have these notes up but thanks theyre really helping me as an offshore student with crippling anxiety that interferes with studying remotely. thank you thank you thank you. bless u

I'm sorry to hear about your anxiety & how it's affecting your offshore studies (which in itself is already a challenge). Good on you for pushing on, be proud of that & celebrate the small wins(: Hope that you're doing better & you're most welcome for the notes. Bless you too!

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BTS: the site formatting

I've demonstrated in the mock-up above, some of the simple tweaks I made to the template code to adjust 'quality of life' things for the site (clearly not a html whiz hahaha). With some trial and error, this aspect of 'tuning' ffrepos was a fun project for me(: I've been using Tumblr since 2012, over the years one kinda picks up a lil' here and there haha. If you are interested in the finer details of html code, I found this site rather helpful.

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Practice questions

Here is a trove of practice questions + answers that my tutor, Tony, put a tremendous amount of effort into and I benefitted greatly from doing them in the lead up to the final exams. He has kindly allowed me to share them with you here(: I have used a black highlight over the answers so that you can have a go at them first before revealing them to check your answers.

PATH2210 (No answers for this one)

PATH2220

MICR2209

PATH3305

MICR3305

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BTS: the scanning process

The above process repeated for the 1,446 pages which gave rise to all the PDFs of my handwritten notes on ffrepos(:

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MICR3305 - UWA

Immunobiology & Immune Diseases (2018, Sem 1)

Unit coordinators: A/Prof Allison Imrie, A/Prof Manfred Beliharz

L11-12, 14-20:

pp. 2-4 (Ab classes & distribution)

10 (Abs: kappa/lambda chains & structure)

14-15 (Thymus dependent/independent Ags)

25, 30-31 (Infant, elderly immune system)

32-38 (Type I-IV hypersensitivity & disease eg.)

32-33, 44 (Mechanism of type I hypersensitivity, food allergy & anaphylaxis)

48-49 (TLRs: innate immune responses & viral infection)

51-54 (T helper cell differentiation & effector fx)

55 (Super Ags, disease eg.)

60 (Antigenic shift/drift)

66 (Memory B cell movement)

67-68 (Cell surface receptor expression of B & T cells)

L21-26:

pp. 10 (HIV structure & infection)

16-18 (Immunosuppresive drugs)

19 (Fingolimod & its effects on normal lymphocyte trafficking)

26-27 (Live attenuated vs killed vaccines)

40-41 (Treatment for autoimmune disorders & autoimmunity etiology)

42 (Types of transplants)

44 (Evidence for immunological mediation of allograft rejection)

Please find my summary slides for L13 (Mucosal immunity) over here. You might balk that the summary still has 38 slides, but I assure you, I did my best to break the content up into more digestable chunks(: If I recall correctly, the content from the self-directed tutorials were also included in the final exam. Make sure that you are able to draw and label all the features of a lymph node.

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MICR3305 - UWA

Immunobiology & Immune Diseases (2018, Sem 1)

Unit coordinators: A/Prof Allison Imrie, A/Prof Manfred Beliharz

L1-10:

pp. 2-3 (Myeloid, lymphoid cells & inflammatory response)

5 (Fx of Abs, types of CD4+ T cells)

7 (Cytokine activity & receptors, know eg. of colony stim. factors)

9, 11 (JAK-STAT signalling, key transcription factors)

13-14 (Megakaryocyte differentiation, platelet formation, disorders)

16-17 (Classic inflam. signs, macrophage cytokines)

18-21 (Neutrophil movement, inflam. cytokines, acute phase rsp.)

24-29 (C' system: Lectin, Classical & Alternative; C reg. proteins)

36-38 (Toll-like receptors)

40-42 (NF-kB & MAPK signalling)

50 (Cytokine fx table)

52-55 (T cell development, CD profile of T cells at various developmental stages)

60-62 (Activation & inhibitory T cell signals)

68 (Signature cytokines & transcription factors of T cell subsets)

73 (Antigen presentation: MHC class I vs II)

79 (Major features of MHC class I vs II)

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MICR2208 - UWA

Introductory Microbiology (2018, Sem 1)

Unit coordinator: A/Prof Charlene Khaler

e-Practicals summary table and notes

1) Dx stains & media (v important)

2) Bacterial enumeration, control, products & metabolism

I highly reccommend that you know all the dx stains & media in the tables left to right, front and back, inside and out. You get the idea yeah?(:

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MICR2208 - UWA

Introductory Microbiology (2018, Sem 1)

Unit coordinator: A/Prof Charlene Khaler

L15-27 (Final exam):

2-3 (Trophism prefixes & their assoc. nutritional molecules)

5 (Passive/facilitated diffusion, active transport & group translocation)

6-7 (Environmental factors affecting microbial growth)

8-12 (Types of culture media)

13-15 (Bacterial growth curve)

20 (Aseptic technique, disinfectant/antiseptics)

23-27 (Physical methods of microbial growth control)

27-31 (Chemical methods of microbial growth control)

46-47 (SLP, oxidative phosphorylation & fermentation)

51-53 (Methods of metabolism regulation)

56-57 (GC skew, homo/ana/ortho/paralogues)

61 (DNA & chromosome replication)

62 (Genetic organisation of bacterial chromosome)

67-69 (Types of mutation, reversion of mutations)

71-72 (DNA repair mechanisms)

73 (Types of symbiosis)

77 (Microbial activity in soil, soil structure & hummus formation)

81-82 (1°, 2° & 3° wastewater treatment)

If Shaxx is still lecturing for the series of lectures on microbial genetics, just listen to him intently and memorise everything that he tells you is important. The other lecturers in this unit were also very generous with practice questions nearing the exams, if they do give them out, please have a crack at answering them.

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MICR2208 - UWA

Introductory Microbiology (2018, Sem 1)

Unit coordinator: A/Prof Charlene Khaler

L1-14 (Mid-sem):

5 (Pure/selective culture, have an idea of the historic figures mentioned in this lecture)

9-10 (Pro/Eukaryotes, bacteria/archaea/eukaryote tables)

15-19 (Binary fission, structure of prokaryotes & gram pos/neg cell walls)

22, 26 (Mycobacterium cell wall, endospore formation & structure)

28-35 (Gram pos bacteria; assoc. diseases, niches & growth characteristics)

36-43 (Gram neg bacteria; assoc. diseases, niches & growth characteristics)

45-46 (Archea cell wall & external structures)

57 (Septate/aseptate hyphae, fungal dimorphism)

60-61 (ABZ group; asexual & sexual fungal reproduction, know examples)

68 (Know the various prefixes of trophism)

69-70, 74-76 (Protists; assoc. diseases, niches)

71-72, 74 (Mutualistic symbiosis, effects of climate change on vector-borne diseases)

77-78 (Definition of virus & viral structure)

80-81 (Viral replication cycle, release: lysogenic/budding)

86-88 (Virus quantification, ID/LD50, viriods & prions)

I would have liked to tell you that you need not memorise all the bacteria and protists but that would do you a huge disservice. Like in MICR2209, you should know what organisms cause what disease. Gram morphology is also important for the bacteria, colony morphology less so. Environmental niches and growth characteristics are intrisically linked since the environmental conditions need to support optimal growth(: You can do it!

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PATH3308 - UWA

Biotherapeutics & Regenerative Medicine (2017, Sem 2)

Unit coordinator: A/Prof Kimberley Strong

Module 3 (Pharmaceutical therapies):

pp. 1-4 (Type I/II diabetes, genetic predisposition & risk factors)

7-8 (Types of insulin & anti-diabetic medications)

9, 11 (Glucose regulating hormones, dx of DM)

13-14 (Types of insulin & side effects)

16-17 (Hypoglycaemic agents)

19-21 (RA: genetic risk/environmental factors & pathologic alterations)

23 (DMARDs: Methotrexate)

26 (COX inhibitors: v important, selective/non-selective)

Module 4 (Gene therapies):

pp. 2-3 (Genetic basis & gene therapy methods for DMD)

4-5 (Components of myoblast transfer therapy)

7-9 (Macular degeneration: mouse models, AAVs & sFLT-1)

10-18 (Exon skipping therapy for DMD; v important, summary videos: Part 1, Part 2)

19-20, 22 (Immunocontraception: zona pellucida, mouse models, CMV as viral vector)

23 (Limiting factors of gene therapy, types of vectors)

If the two lectures that I have labelled as very important are still in the syllabus and the content remains relevant, please understand those concepts well. I had some questions concerning the COX inhibitors which Prof David Joyce kindly answered here, if you are interested, not examinable. Prof Sue Fletcher's lecture on neuromuscular disorders was quite content heavy but when broken down, actually very fascinating.

I made several summary videos on lectures I felt I had difficulty understanding. I shared these with my cohort mates via LMS and I'm really glad that many commented saying that the videos had helped them.

This summary video was the last one I did and I actually didn't manage to record it in time for the final exam so I only uploaded the slides to LMS. I recorded this video after the final exam and gave it to Kimberley for her to share with subsequent cohorts (so you may have already seen it!).

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PATH3308 - UWA

Biotherapeutics & Regenerative Medicine (2017, Sem 2)

Unit coordinator: A/Prof Kimberley Strong

Module 1 (Cell therapies):

pp. 1 (Examples of ectoderm, mesoderm & endoderm)

3-5 (Cell transformation, matrix proteins, examples of BMPs)

6 (Fx of cadherins & integrins)

7-10 (CEA, Application of ReCell, inflammatory cytokines)

11 (Properties of MSCs; toti/pluri/multipotency & plasticity)

14-16 (GvH/BMT, HvG/Organ transplant & HvH/autoimmune disease, know examples)

17-19, 23 (ECM fx & scaffold properties, pros/cons of diff. types of scaffolds; auto/allo/xenografts)

22, 25-26 (Major elements of tissue engineering in vivo, Yamanaka & angiogenic factors; auto/para/endocrine)

27 (Portal triad, Liver regeneration; Kupffer cells)

29-30 (Liver stem cells; oval cells or cholangiocytes?)

Module 2 (Transplantation):

pp. 1 (Memorise HLA assoc. with each disease, MHC = HLA in humans)

2 (Tissue exp. & structure of MHC)

3-4 (Be clear on locus/allele, haplo/genotype & linkage disequilibrium, Abacavir)

8 (Bone grafts; bone morphology, differentiate btwn. all the 'osteo's, know the table)

15 (Organ donation; cold storage ischemic times & donor age ranges)

18-19 (Donor testing & window period)

For L3 in Module 2, please refer to my summary slides on liver transplantation here. I don't want any trouble so I did not include any pictures provided by Mr Mou (the surgeon). I have starred the slides you need to know, the rest are mainly for completeness sake.

Fun fact: Mr Mou's lecture is the only one in my entire undergrad that I ever re-watched the online recording (despite attending in-person). I have minimal background in anatomy, so if this lecture is still in the syllabus and you've attended it, I'm sure you'll be able to symphathise why I was in and over my head!