Gideon Wei Zhi Lim

As part of a "greenfield" start-up, created the laboratory including implementation of all the analysis and quality control system for the entire brewery, monitoring and supervising the brewing process from raw material to finished product, and setting up ISO 22000 system for the company. Now in charge of brewing, utility and laboratory sections.

Analysis of foods samples, application of various techniques (microbiological and biochemistry) to identify contaminants in food samples that had caused food poisoning. For example: selective agar, biochemical test, API, HPLC, gram stain etc, detection of genetically modified (GM) foods by employing PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction) and electrophoresis techniques, laboratory quality control and preparation of reports and record keeping for each analysis undertaken.

In depth view into malting, brewing or distilling industries. The core modules are cereals, malting & mashing, wort boiling, fermentation & beer maturation, project studies, distillation & whisky maturation, filtration & packaging, production management and include a substantial research project.

Various fields of biological sciences for instance, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular genetics, bioinformatics, fermentation technology, plant & animal cell culture, environment, genetic engineering & bioprocess engineering.For final year project, the topic being being studied was biofuel cell.