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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Last of the season today!  We start again at the end of August/early
September.  Now scheduling for the coming season; let us know if you
have a speaker/want to speak.  Notices will be sent sporadically in
August until we start again.

7/30/26*: Jake Lemieux (MGH/Harvard Medical School) "Bacterial genetic
determinants of severity and clinical variability in Lyme disease" (P.
Adams) (Hybrid).

7/31/26: 9-10 AM, NIAID GRAND ROUNDS, Masur Auditorium: Jake Lemieux
"Insights From Pathogen Genomes Into the Origin, Evolution, and
Pathogenesis of Tick-Borne Disease" (in person only)

Summer break. If a visitor is coming through, we can arrange a seminar.

8/27/26*: Tentative: Meeting Reviews (phage meeting, GRCs).

9/10/26*: Ann Deng and Lorna Mitchison-Field (Belin lab, JHU) (Felix
Ramos-Leon) (hybrid)

10/19/26: (time/place to be arranged) Combined seminar: Ned Ruby and
Margaret McFall-Ngai (Caltech).

12/3/26*:Xinyun (Sherry) Cao (UT Southwestern) (G. Storz)

12/17/26*: Venigalla Rao (Catholic U.). (D. Hinton).

4/7/27: WALS: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford)

4/8/27*: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford) (K. Ramamurthi).

4/30/27*: Being held for confirmation (U. MD guest)

5/25/27: WALS: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) "Quorum Sensing Across
Domains: From Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes"

5/26/27*: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton).


*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
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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, July 25, 2026 at 1:48PM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch:
Jake Lemieux (MGH/HMS) "Bacterial genetic determinants of severity and
clinical variability in Lyme disease"

You can forward this invitation to others.
Susan Gottesman is inviting you to a scheduled Webex meeting.

Thursday, July 30, 2026
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