Maria Eugénia Mata 1,† and Jose Tenreiro Machado 2,*,† 1 Faculdade de Economia, Nova School of Business and Economics, Campus de Campolide, Lisbon 1099-032, Portugal; [email protected] 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto 4249-015, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +351-22-8340500 † These authors contributed equa...

Despite its global abundance, Bacillus pumilus is poorly studied. The Fairview strain was obtained from a methanogenic anaerobic coal digester. The draft genome sequence was 3.8 Mbp long and contained 3,890 protein-coding genes. Like the SAFR-032 strain, it includes B. pumilus-specific proteins that likely confer enhanced resistance to environmental stresses.

Seven Bacillus spp. were exposed to simulations of Mars-normal UV fluence rates in order to study the effects of UV irradiation on microbial survival. A UV illumination system was calibrated to deliver 9.78 W m−2 (35.2 kJ m−2 h−1) of UVC + UVB irradiation (200–320 nm) to microbial samples, thus creating a clear-sky simulation (0.5 optical depth) of equatorial Mars. The Bacillus spp. studied wer...

Leishmania donovani Suppresses Activated Protein 1 and NFB Activation in Host Macrophages via Ceramide Generation: Involvement of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Sanjukta Ghosh, Sandip Bhattacharyya, Madhumita Sirkar, Gouri Shankar Sa, Tanya Das, Debashis Majumdar, Syamal Roy, and Subrata Majumdar* Department of Microbiology and Department of Animal Physiology, Bose Institute, Calcutta 70...

1 Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pashan, Pune – 411021, India. 2 Department of Microbiology, Elphinstone College, Fort, Mumbai 400 032, India. 3 Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune – 411007, India. 4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, Kolhapur 416013, India. 5 Biochemical Division, National Ch...

L. PANIGRAHI*, S. K. GHOSAL, SNIGDHA PATTNAIK, L. MAHARANA AND B. B. BARIK School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, I. T. E. R., Jagamohan Nagar, Gagamara, Bhubaneswar-751 030, *Sun Pharma Advance Rearch Center, Tandalja, Vadodara-390 020, Pharmaceutical Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta-700 032, University Department of Pharmaceutical Science...

We present the first V I CCD photometry for the Sculptor group galaxy ESO 540-032 obtained at the Very Large Telescope UT1+FORS1. The (I, V − I) colour-magnitude diagram indicates that this intermediatetype dwarf galaxy is dominated by old, metal-poor ([Fe/H]≈ −1.7 dex) stars, with a small population of slightly more metal-rich ([Fe/H]≈ −1.3 dex), young (age 150 − 500 Myr) stars. A discontinuit...