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16.09.2013 - (idw) Max-Planck-Institut fr marine Mikrobiologie
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and their colleagues from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research uncover how viruses regulate carbon release from the alga Phaeocystis globosa. They published their discovery in the ISME Journal.
Phaeocystis globosa is an alga forming harmful blooms in the coastal waters of the North Sea. The decay of algal biomass at the end of the bloom leads to massive release of organic matter, which in turn stimulates the growth of a variety of heterotrophic gamma- and alpha-proteobacteria. An important source of mortality for these algae are lytic P. globosa viruses. We therefore investigated how algal viral infection and subsequent lysis affects the community structure of the associated bacteria, explains Dr. Abdul R. Sheik, the lead author of this study. In control experiments they showed that the bacterial composition of infected algal cultures differed from non-infected cultures after 5 hours. In order to understand the underlying mechanism Dr. Sheik and colleagues monitored the uptake of the released organic material by the bacterioplankton using isotopically-labeled algal biomass (with isotopes of nitrogen and carbon). Assimilation of the substrate was quantified in single bacterial cells using imaging secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) with a sub-micrometer spatial resolution. Surprisingly, we saw colonization of algal cells and uptake of labeled carbon and nitrogen by Alteromonas cells long before the algal cells lysed, explains Abdul Sheik. This suggests that infected but still intact algae can already shape the microbial community composition by excretion or leakage of organic matter.
These results reveal a new pathway in the transfer of algal biomass to the bacterioplankton and, in a larger picture, new mechanism of retaining carbon in the euphotic zone.
Further Information Dr. Abdul R. Sheik, +352 46 66 44 5746, abdul.sheik@uni.lu Prof. Dr. Marcel Kuypers, +49 421 2028602, mkuypers@mpi-bremen.de
Press office Dr. Manfred Schloesser, +49 421 2028704, mschloes@mpi-bremen.de
Involved institutions Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics, Amsterdam
Original article Responses of the coastal bacterial community to viral infection of the algae Phaeocystis globosa Abdul R. Sheik, Corina P. D. Brussaard, Gaute Lavik, Phyllis Lam, Niculina Musat, Andreas Krupke, Sten Littmann, Marc Strous and Marcel M. M. Kuypers doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.135 Weitere Informationen:http://www.mpi-bremen.de Webpage of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
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Biswajeet Banerjee, The Associated Press Published Monday, September 16, 2013 8:23AM EDT
LUCKNOW, India -- In a country where many girls are still discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood.
The 13-year-old girl from a poor family in north India has enrolled in a master's degree in microbiology, after her father sold his land to pay for some of his daughter's tuition in the hope of catapulting her into India's growing middle class.
Verma finished high school at 7 and earned an undergraduate degree at age 13 -- milestones she said were possible only with the sacrifices and encouragement of her uneducated and impoverished parents.
"They allowed me to do what I wanted to do," Verma said in an interview Sunday, speaking her native language of Hindi. "I hope that other parents don't impose their choices on their children."
Sushma lives a very modest life with her three younger siblings and her parents -- eating, sleeping and studying alongside them in a cramped single-room apartment in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
Their only income is her father's daily wage of up to 200 rupees (less than $3.50) for labouring on construction sites. Their most precious possessions include a study table and a second-hand computer.
It is not a great atmosphere for studying, she admitted. "There are a lot of dreams ... All of them cannot be fulfilled."
But having no television and little else at home has advantages, she said. "There is nothing to do but study."
Sushma begins her studies next week at Lucknow's B. R. Ambedkar Central University, though her father is already ferrying her to and from campus each day on his bicycle so she can meet with teachers before classes begin.
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Indian girl, 13, enrolls in microbiology master's
The Associated Press reports Verma will attend Lucknow's B. R. Ambedkar Central University and will get her masters degree in microbiology. The 13-year-old plans to work towards her doctorate but she will have to wait until she is 18 prior to enrolling into a medical school. Verma graduated high school at the age of seven, besting her older brother by two years. As noted by AP, Vermas brother graduated high school at the age of nine and went on to become a computer science graduate at the age of 14.
According to Verma, her success is due her family, saying to AP, They allowed me to do what I wanted to do. Education, at times, is not an option for many girls in India as families opt for marriage or push for a male siblings education. According to recent estimates, anywhere from 2.8 million to eight million children may not be enrolled in public school, reports the Guardian.
Even if a child is enrolled in public school, pupils have to face overcrowding and unsanitary conditions at understaffed schools. For girls, they face harassment and are too scared to report it, fearing they will be held responsible, notes the Guardian. Even though almost an equal amount of girls and boys attend primary school, girls are soon discouraged from continuing their education, opting to work, provide support for their family or get married.
Vermas father is the only source of income for the family, making less than $3.50 a day as a construction worker, reports AP. For her tuition, her father sold some land to help pay the bill while Sulabh International, a charity promoting social change and improving sanitary conditions in rural areas of India, gave the girl a check for 800,000 Rupees ($12,732) for her education. In addition to the tuition check, the charitys founder, Bindeshwar Pathak, also gave the girl an iPod, an iPhone, laptop, desktop computer and a LED TV and will give her 3,000 rupees (4,744.50), reports the Asian Age.
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13-Year-Old Child Prodigy From India, Sushma Verma, Begins Her Pursuit For A Master's In Microbiology
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - In a country where many girls are still discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood.
The 13-year-old girl from a poor family in north India has enrolled in a master's degree in microbiology, after her father sold his land to pay for some of his daughter's tuition in the hope of catapulting her into India's growing middle class.
Verma finished high school at 7 and earned an undergraduate degree at age 13 - milestones she said were possible only with the sacrifices and encouragement of her uneducated and impoverished parents.
"They allowed me to do what I wanted to do," Verma said in an interview Sunday, speaking her native language of Hindi. "I hope that other parents don't impose their choices on their children."
Sushma lives a very modest life with her three younger siblings and her parents - eating, sleeping and studying alongside them in a cramped single-room apartment in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
Their only income is her father's daily wage of up to 200 rupees (less than $3.50) for laboring on construction sites. Their most precious possessions include a study table and a second-hand computer.
It is not a great atmosphere for studying, she admitted. "There are a lot of dreams ... All of them cannot be fulfilled."
But having no television and little else at home has advantages, she said. "There is nothing to do but study."
Sushma begins her studies next week at Lucknow's B. R. Ambedkar Central University, though her father is already ferrying her to and from campus each day on his bicycle so she can meet with teachers before classes begin.
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13-yr-old Indian girl begins microbiology master's
In a country where many girls are still discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood.
The 13-year-old girl from a poor family in north India has enrolled in a master's degree in microbiology, after her father sold his land to pay for some of his daughter's tuition in the hope of catapulting her into India's growing middle class.
Verma finished high school at 7 and earned an undergraduate degree at age 13 milestones she said were possible only with the sacrifices and encouragement of her uneducated and impoverished parents.
"They allowed me to do what I wanted to do," Verma said in an interview Sunday, speaking her native language of Hindi. "I hope that other parents don't impose their choices on their children."
Sushma lives a very modest life with her three younger siblings and her parents eating, sleeping and studying alongside them in a cramped single-room apartment in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
Their only income is her father's daily wage of up to 200 rupees (less than $3.50) for laboring on construction sites. Their most precious possessions include a study table and a second-hand computer.
It is not a great atmosphere for studying, she admitted. "There are a lot of dreams ... All of them cannot be fulfilled."
But having no television and little else at home has advantages, she said. "There is nothing to do but study."
Sushma begins her studies next week at Lucknow's B. R. Ambedkar Central University, though her father is already ferrying her to and from campus each day on his bicycle so she can meet with teachers before classes begin.
Her first choice was to become a doctor, but she cannot take the test to qualify for medical school until she is 18.
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PLANO, Texas, Sept. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Rovia was named "North America's Leading Travel Agency" at the 2013 World Travel Awards in Antigua and Barbuda on September 14. World Travel Awards is one of the most prestigious awards programs in the global travel and tourism industry.
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Follow the money, and more often than not, it will lead to a guru a CEO of spirituality with fingers in many pies. The god business, run with corporate finesse, is a loss-proof proposition. Its a sublime way to make ridiculous wealth.For Baba Ramdev, yoga and Ayurveda have been the main money-spinners since he shot to fame in 2004.
Besides crusading against corruption and black money, he runs a 100-bed hospital, an Ayurveda college, a university, a real estate business and a mini hospitality industry at the sprawling Haridwar campus of Patanjali Yogapeeth.
Herbal kick The business operations are divided among four trusts: Divya Yog Mandir, Patanjali Yogapeeth, Patanjali Gramodyog and the recently-formed Bharat Swabhiman.
The Ayurvedic medicines and products are manufactured at a 150-acre facility near Haridwar. We have a three-pronged distribution channel. While all the Ayurvedic medicines are marketed through Patanjali Chikitsalaya, the products are marketed through Arogya Kendras. There are 960 chikitsalayas and 2,342 kendras in the country, says Jaishankar Mishra, the editor of the in-house magazine Yog Sandesh.
The Patanjali Yogapeeth Trust takes care of the Ayurveda college, the university, and the hospital. The college gives a degree of Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medical Sciences (BAMS). It is a four-and-a-half-year course with one year of on-campus internship. We have also started Acharyakulam a school where children are taught in the Vedic tradition, Mishra adds. The first batch of the school has started this year with 250 children from across the country.
The annual fee for a student is Rs 1,60,000, which includes boarding and meals.
The Patanjali University, which confers Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in yoga and yoga-related subjects such as philosophy, psychology and Sanskrit, has at least 300 students. The pro vice-chancellor Kartar Singh, a retired Brigadier, is quick to point out that the fees are highly subsidised compared to the government colleges.
The sprawling campus has other lucrative uses. Ramdevs trust has come up with a unique model for three kinds of flats for the elderly. Category I, Ganga, the biggest in size, comes for Rs 21 lakh; Yamuna is Rs 11 lakh and Saraswati Rs 5.5 lakh. Any person of the age of 50 and above can apply for these flats, says Mishra. One can start living there once the payment is made. If the person dies, the spouse gets to use the accommodation. But once the spouse dies, the flat goes back to the trust and is re-allotted. These flats have ACs, reverse osmosis, geysers, and pipeline gas connections.
Apart from these flats, there are seven towers in the campus for visitors, where the per day charge varies between Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. The towers can host 10,000 people at a time.
Ramdev is also getting into publishing with encyclopaedias on yoga and Ayurveda. Little wonder then that from Rs 2 crore, the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust had grown to a mammoth Rs 178 crore in 2010. The lust for zeroes continues in 2013, though the babas lieutenants claim that a large part of the earnings come from donations.
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MERLITO Villanueva Gepte, Darby Vincent A. Alcoseba, Herbert J. Pajarito; at left, Perseverance, by Alcoseba
Major winning works in the Visual Arts categories of the 29th Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) National Competition have spirituality and humanity as subjects.
For Painting, which has the subcategories Oil on Canvas and Watermedia on Paper, the Grand Prize winners are Alvin Florentinos Nilay-Nilay, Herbert J. Pajaritos Intercession, and Darby Alcosebas Perseverance.
Oil-on-canvas Nilay-Nilay (48 x 36) portrays a man and a woman in one body immersed in a bathtub in what seems the artists take on the relationship between the sacred and the profane, sin and repentance.
Florentino, 23, said he sought to portray the need for cleansing to stop the cycle of human immorality.
An Interior Design student of the Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (Earist), Florentino said he was influenced by the works of contemporary artists Andres Barrioquinto, Jerry Morada and Ronald Ventura.
NILAY-NILAY
Oil-on-canvas Intercession (48 x 36) is an abstract rendition of explorations of the soul.
Pajarito, 31, said he was influenced by the works of Joan Miro and Salvador Dali. A Fine Arts graduate of Adventist University of the Philippines, he said he wanted to become an art evangelist.
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