Birgit Nordbring-Hertz

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Birgit Nordbring-Hertz
Born
Birgit Ann-Marie Nordbring

1923[1]
DiedMarch 16, 2020(2020-03-16) (aged 96) [2]
Alma materLund University
Scientific career
ThesisNematode-trapping organs in the fungus arthrobotrys oligospora : formation, structure and function (1974)

Birgit Ann-Marie Margareta Nordbring-Hertz, (16 May 1923 – 16 March 2020 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish scientist at

fungi and nematodes
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Education

Nordbring-Hertz graduated with a medical licentiate degree with a thesis on the opportunistic human pathogenic fungus, Candida albicans, 1956 at Lund University,[3] and received a doctorate in microbiology in 1974 at the same university, working on nematode-trapping fungi.[4] After her doctorate she took over responsibility for the department of microbial ecology, a position she held from 1975 until 1989.[3] In 1987, she was promoted to professor at Lund University,[5][6] and in 1989 she transitioned to an emeritus position.[3] She was the first female professor at the natural science faculty at Lund University.[5]

Research

Nordbring-Hertz's research mainly dealt with a type of

scanning electron microscopy to study the trapping organs of A. oligospora.[9] Her early research was concentrated on how trapping organs were induced,[10] apart from nematode touching the hyphae also chemically by small peptides will induce trap formation. Her work was later focussed on specific recognition mechanisms, e.g. by lectins (carbohydrate-binding glycoproteins) on the trap surface that recognise specific carbohydrates on the nematode surface and start the infection process.[11][12] Her research also examined volatile exudates from nematodes,[13] the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae,[14] and quantifying the presence of the fungus in soil ecosystems.[15]

Selected publications

Personal life

Nordbring-Hertz married in 1953 to a professor in electrical measurement technology,

Hellmuth Hertz,[16] and they had two sons, Thomas and Hans Hertz.[17]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-582-90116-2
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  2. ^ "Minnesord om Birgit Nordbring-Hertz". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). March 31, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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    OCLC 4779320164
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  4. ^ Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit (1974). Nematode-trapping organs in the fungus arthrobotrys oligospora: formation, structure and function (Thesis). Lund.
  5. ^ a b Linnéa Taylor; Marina Castro Zalis; Patrícia Veiga Crespo (eds.). "The XX Factor" (PDF). WINGS Lund University Sweden. p. 23.
  6. OCLC 476649102
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  7. doi:10.1163/187529277X00372
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  8. S2CID 29138213
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  9. ISSN 1399-3054
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  10. ISSN 1474-0605
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  11. S2CID 4339747
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  12. ISBN 978-0-85229-375-1
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  13. S2CID 9125842
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  14. ISSN 0378-1097
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  15. S2CID 33279382
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  16. ISBN 978-0-900332-20-3
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  17. ISBN 978-0-934544-24-5
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