Ong Jie Ying, a Year 3 student from the Biosciences Department of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, has completed her research internship with Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This placement is under the guidance of postdoctoral researcher Dr. Yvonne Hii Yiik Siang, as part of her work on isolation and cultivation of bacterial strains obtained from deep-sea samples.
The internship programme provided an invaluable platform for our student to gain practical experience in microbial isolation, characterisation, and molecular analysis, particularly involving deep-sea bacteria—microorganisms that thrive under extreme oceanic conditions. These bacteria are of growing interest in the field of environmental and industrial biotechnology due to their unique metabolic capabilities and potential applications in bioremediation, natural product discovery, and bioengineering.
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