NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:11:37 +0000
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Subject: VIRTUAL ONLY THURSDAY:Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch - Bill Jacobs (Einstein)-From a Bronx Garden Phage, to Immune-Mediated Killing and Sterilization of M.tb.
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TWO lambda lunch talks this week:  Bill Jacobs (virtual) on Thursday,
usual time (11 AM), and Sue Lovett, Friday, 10 AM, hybrid talk.  LInk
for Friday will be sent out Thursday afternoon and Friday AM.

Last chance to sign up for lunch with Dianne Newman; email Anu Khare
(anupama.khare@nih.gov).

4/23/26*: Bill Jacobs (Albert Einstein) "From a Bronx Garden Phage, to
Immune-Mediated Killing and Sterilization of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis" Virtual ONLY.

4/24/26: 10 AM, sixth floor conf room, Bldg. 37: Sue Lovett (Brandeis)
"E. coli transcriptional response to replication inhibition:  more than
the SOS response" (S. Gottesman) Hybrid (link to be sent Thursday
PM/Friday AM)

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

4/28/26: 11:00 AM, TUESDAY LAMBDA LUNCH: 2^nd floor conference room,
Bldg. 37: Dianne Newman (Caltech), "Giving goo its due: biofilm matrix
physicochemistry tunes extracellular electron transfer efficiency" (A.
Khare)

4/30/26*: Nick Vereecke (Dekker Lab, NIAID) "Intra-host evolution of
the opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia vietnamiensis in an
IL-12Rb1 deficient host"

5/1/26: FRIDAY WALS, Nirenberg Lecture: 2:00: Jack Szostak (U. Chicago)
"The surprising chemistry of nonenzymatic RNA replication" (Lambda
lunch nominated; G. Storz).

5/7/26*: Rasika Harshey (UT Austin) `Nucleolus-like Organization of
Ribosomal RNA Loci in E. coli' (Virtual) (Anirban Banerjee)

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)

5/21/26*: Harris Bernstein (NIDDK) in person only.

5/28/26*: Nadine Samara (NIDCR) "Characterizing biofilm
polysaccharides from the oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum"

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).

6/11/26*: Kelley Gallagher (Cornell). (F. Ramos-Leon).

7/30/26*: Jake Lemieux (MGH/Harvard Medical School) (P. Adams)

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

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

5/25/27: WALS: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton)

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
"SUBSCRIBE LAMBDA_LUNCH-L 'your name'" from the computer where you
usually receive mail to
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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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Bldg 37, Rm 5132                        Lab:  240-760-7843

37 Convent Drive, NIH

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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11:31AM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Bill Jacobs (Einstein)-From a Bronx Garden Phage, to Immune-Mediated
Killing and Sterilization of M.tb.

You can forward this invitation to others.
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