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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Subject: Hybrid, Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch - Susan Gottesman- Rcs phosphorelay structure and function
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Trainees interested in having lunch with Dianne Newman Monday, April
27th), should send an email to Anu Khare (anupama.khare@nih.gov) with
your name, group you are in and status (postdoc, postbac, grad
student).  You will receive a confirmation and where lunch will be if
there is space for you.

4/16/26*: Susan Gottesman "Structural and Functional Insights into the
Rcs phosphorelay"

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

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)

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, 2^nd floor conference room, Bldg. 37: Dianne Newman
(Caltech), Lambda lunch.

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).


*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
<[3]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>[4]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'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

Bethesda, MD 20892

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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11:24AM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Susan Gottesman- Rcs phosphorelay structure and function

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