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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BACK IN BUSINESS!  We are still rescheduling some of the missed talks,
and will be scheduling other talks for 2026.

Two seminars this week. One Thursday, one Friday; both hybrid.

11/20/25*: Elise White (Sarah Woodson lab, JHU) "Hfq as a Molecular
Matchmaker: Letting sRNAs Explore Before They Commit". (S. Gottesman)
Hybrid.

11/22/25: Friday, 11 AM, Bldg. 37, second floor conf room: Dominque
Missiakis (U. Chicago) "Staphylococcus aureus: Portrait of a
pathogen" (K. Ramamurthi).  LINK WILL BE SENT FRIDAY AM

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)

12/11/25*: Tamara O'Connor (JHU) (M. Machner)

12/17/25: 2 PM, Lipsett, WALS: 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."

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)

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
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'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 15, 2025 at 5:01PM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Elise White (JHU): Hfq as a Molecular Matchmaker

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