antimicrobial activity of different culture extract of oudemansiella sp grown on liquid medium (mygp) were tested. different fungi (c. albicans, c. lipolytica, saccharomyces cervisiea, cladosporium herbarum, and aspergillus niger) and bacteria (microccocus luteus, e. coli, staphylococcus aureus, and staphylococcus epidermidis) were used as test organisms. various antimicrobial assay methods inc...

Asymmetric cell division and apoptosis (programmed cell death) are two fundamental processes that are important for the development and function of multicellular organisms. We have found that the processes of asymmetric cell division and apoptosis can be functionally linked. Specifically, we show that asymmetric cell division in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is mediated by a pathway invol...

In the past decade the volvocine green algae, spanning from the unicellular Chlamydomonas to multicellular Volvox, have emerged as model organisms for a number of problems in biological fluid dynamics. These include flagellar propulsion, nutrient uptake by swimming organisms, hydrodynamic interactions mediated by walls, collective dynamics and transport within suspensions of microswimmers, the ...

Elastic objects across a wide range of scales deform under local changes of their intrinsic properties, yet the shapes are glocal, set by a complicated balance between local properties and global geometric constraints. Here, we explore this interplay during the inversion process of the green alga Volvox, whose embryos must turn themselves inside out to complete their development. This process h...

Volvox carteri f. nagariensis takes up arginine via a high affinity, highly specific carrier, whereas carriers for neutral and acidic amino acids cannot be detected (even in nitrogen-starved cultures). Exogenous arginine is accumulated against a steep concentration gradient and is incorporated into protein with high efficiency, but it is not catabolized to any significant extent and will not se...

Swimming microorganisms create flows that influence their mutual interactions and modify the rheology of their suspensions. While extensively studied theoretically, these flows have not been measured in detail around any freely-swimming microorganism. We report such measurements for the microphytes Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The minute (∼0.3%) density excess of V. carteri ove...