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Birgit Ann-Marie Margareta Nordbring-Hertz, (16 May 1923 – 16 March 2020 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish scientist at Lund University known for her work on the interactions between fungi and nematodes.
Birgit Nordbring-Hertz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Birgit Ann-Marie Nordbring 1923[1] |
| Died | March 16, 2020 (aged 96) [2] |
| Alma mater | Lund University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Nematode-trapping organs in the fungus arthrobotrys oligospora : formation, structure and function (1974) |
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]
Nordbring-Hertz's research mainly dealt with a type of microfungi, so-called nematophagous fungi, that infect and digest nematodes. She concentrated on the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora.[7][8] Nordbring-Hertz used 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]
- Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit (1972). "Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Nematode-trapping Organs in Arthrobotrys oligospora". Physiologia Plantarum. 26 (2): 279–284. Bibcode:1972PPlan..26..279N. doi:10.1111/j.1399-3054.1972.tb03581.x. ISSN 1399-3054.
- Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit (1977). "Nematode-Induced Morphogenesis in the Predacious Fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora". Nematologica. 23 (4): 443–451. doi:10.1163/187529277X00372.
- Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit; Mattiasson, Bo (October 1979). "Action of a nematode-trapping fungus shows lectin-mediated host–microorganism interaction". Nature. 281 (5731): 477–479. Bibcode:1979Natur.281..477N. doi:10.1038/281477a0. S2CID 4339747.
- Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit (August 2004). "Morphogenesis in the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora - an extensive plasticity of infection structures". Mycologist. 18 (3): 125–133. doi:10.1017/S0269915X04003052. ISSN 1474-0605.
- Nordbring-Hertz, Birgit; Jansson, Hans-Börje; Tunlid, Anders (2011). "Nematophagous Fungi". eLS. John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0000374.pub3. ISBN 9780470016176.
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]
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