Electron microscope picture of the Lambda bacteriophage.
 On the left is an icosahedral head and extending to the
right is a ribbed tail that comes a point in the last 6
ribs. A man sits at a table holding a knife and fork and
staring puzzled and angrily at a plate that has a lambda
phage on it.

NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.



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TWO Lambda lunch speakers this week - Hubert Savail on Thursday,
Michael Laub on Friday (11:00, 2nd floor). Link for the Laub talk will
be sent after Thursday's talk.

TIME TO START NOMINATION PROCESS FOR Wednesday afternoon lecture (WALS)
Lambda Lunch  choices.  Please send suggestions (name of speaker, why
this is a good choice, any other relevant info) by December 15th; we'll
send out voting ballot shortly thereafter, so we can rank and send in
nominations early in January.  NIHers: see email from Diana Gomez on
Nov. 21st.



12/4/25*: Hubert Savail (Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, U.
Central Florida) "Sensing, responding and balancing to cause disease:
feedback regulation of stress response in Salmonella" (N. Majdalani)
Hybrid.

12/5/25: Friday, 11 AM, Bldg. 37, second floor conf room: Mike Laub
(MIT) "How Do Bacteria Sense a Phage Infection?" (G. Storz)

12/11/25*: Tamara O'Connor (JHU) "Lipids: Friend vs Foe to Bacterial
Pathogens and their Hosts" (M. Machner) Hybrid.

12/17/25: POSTPONED to April 27th: Dianne Newman (Caltech). "Unveiling
low-power survival strategies on life's metabolic edge".

12/18/25*: Kumari Kavita (Yale U., Breaker lab) "Guanidine Aptamers in
Vertebrate RNAs: Extending Riboswitch Biology Beyond Microbes".
(Virtual)

Winter break: No lambda lunch on Christmas or New Year's!

1/8/26*: Sergei Sukharev (U. Maryland) "Surviving fresh water: the
adaptive hypotonic permeability response in bacteria" (M. Galperin)

1/15/26*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"

1/22/26*:José Hernández Valle (PhD work with L. Camaerena, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; currently in Storz lab) "Connecting Quorum
Sensing and CtrA to control the lifestyles of Rhodobacter sphaeroides."

1/29/26*: Fran Harris (Xiao lab, JHU) "The Role of Repetitive
Extragenic Palindromes (REPs) in the E. coli Genome."  (S. Gottesman)

2/25/26: 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 6107/6041: Joshua Strout (U. Notre
Dame) (Anu Khare)

4/9/26*: Namrata Deka (grad student, Armbruster lab, SUNY Buffalo)
(Vani Panda)

4/27/26: MONDAY WALS: Dianne Newman (Caltech). "Unveiling low-power
survival strategies on life's metabolic edge".   (A. Khare)

6/4/26*: No lambda lunch (ASM, in DC).


*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM (Eastern Time) in Bldg 37, Rm
6107/6041.  We will also arrange for these to be available on Webex,
with links sent out each week. To schedule seminars, contact
<[1]mailto:Gottesms@mail.nih.gov >Susan Gottesman or Gisela Storz
([2]storzg@mail.nih.gov). To meet with an outside speaker, contact the
person whose name is in parentheses.  If you're at NIH you can join the
mailing list in either of the following ways.  (1) Send the message
"SUBSCRIBE LAMBDA_LUNCH-L 'your name'" from the computer where you
usually receive mail to
<[3]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>[4]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'your name' by your first and last names; or (2) go to
[5]http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find Lambda_Lunch-L, and
follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
[6]Gottesms@mail.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [7]https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 11:01AM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Hubert Savail (U. Central Fla): Feedback regulation of stress response
in Salmonella.

You can forward this invitation to others.
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