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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No Lambda Lunch Sept. 4th (Microbial RNA conference).

NOTE: LUNCH FOR TRAINEES WITH GIGI MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10th, 1
PM.  If you are interested (and not in labs that attend RNA group
meeting), let my know by Sept. 5th.  Lunch will be provided.

9/10/25: 3 PM, Lipsett Auditorium Bldg. 10: Mider Lecture, WALS: Gigi
Storz "A new universe of regulatory microproteins"  Reception
afterwards  (video cast:  [1]https://videocast.nih.gov),

9/11/25*: Cameron Myhrvold (Princeton) "CRISPR-based technologies for
studying RNA" (Kumaran Ramamurthi) Hybrid.

9/17/25: 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 6107/6041: Peggy Cotter (UNC)
"Secretion and function of the Bordetella Two Partner Secretion pathway
protein FhaB: A historical perspective" (Anu Khare)

9/18/25*: Andres Canela (Kyoto University); "Chromosome domains in
Escherichia coli are DNA entanglements produced by transcription and
replication and solved by MukBEF and Topoisomerase IV." (VIRTUAL)

9/25/25*: SPEAKER NEEDED

10/2/25*: Yom Kippur, no Lambda Lunch

10/9/25*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"

10/16/25*: Sergei Sukharev (U. MD) (M. Galperin)

10/23/25*: José Hernández Valle (PhD work with L. Camaerena,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; currently in Storz lab)

10/30/25*: Bill Jacobs (Albert Einstein) (G. Storz)

11/6/25*: Kumari Kavita (Yale U., Breaker lab) (virtual).

11/13/25*: Orlando (Landon)Deleon (E. Chang lab, U. Chicago) "Why you
need to match microbes to their ecosystem: Roles of regional microbiota
in shaping tissue identity, function, and healing" (A. Martini)

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*: Saved for possible D. Newman lambda lunch.

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


*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
<[2]mailto:Gottesms@mail.nih.gov >Susan Gottesman or Gisela Storz
([3]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
<[4]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>[5]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'your name' by your first and last names; or (2) go to
[6]http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find Lambda_Lunch-L, and
follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
[7]Gottesms@mail.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [8]https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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Bldg 37, Rm 5132                        Lab:  240-760-7843

37 Convent Drive, NIH

Bethesda, MD 20892

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References

1. https://videocast.nih.gov/
2. mailto:Gottesms@mail.nih.gov
3. mailto:storzg@mail.nih.gov
4. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
5. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
6. http://list.nih.gov/
7. mailto:susang@helix.nih.gov
8. https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html

Previous Lambda Lunch Meeting Schedules

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