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

2/5/26*: Sergei Sukharev (U. Maryland) "Surviving fresh water: the
adaptive hypotonic permeability response in bacteria" (M. Galperin)

2/12/26*: Kumaran Ramamurthi : "A metabolite morphogen coordinates
multicellular development in Bacillus subtilis"

2/19/26*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"

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

3/5/26*: Roman Kogay (Koonin lab) "Selective landscapes of prokaryotic
evolution"

3/19/26*: Ryan Bell (Koonin lab) "Striking diversity of novel mobile
genetic elements carrying defensive and metabolic cargo in
Proteobacteria"

4/7/26: TUESDAY, 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 2107/2041: Jorg Vogel
(Helmholtz Inst. for RNA-based Infection Research, Wurzburg, Germany)
(G. Storz).

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

4/23/26*: Bill Jacobs (Albert Einstein) (G. Storz)

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

5/14/26*: 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)

6/3/26: 3:00 PM, Bldg. 37 Conference room: Paul Rainey (Max-Planck Inst
for Evol. Bio.) "`Evolution of evolvability in bacteria" (E. Koonin)

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


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6107/6041.  We will also arrange for these to be available on Webex,
with links sent out each week. To schedule seminars, contact
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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 1:39PM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Fran Harris (JHU): The Role of Repetitive Extragenic Palindromes (REPs)
in the E. coli Genome

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