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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1/22/26*: Rilee Zeinert (Storz lab) "Regulating proteolysis with
microproteins" Hybrid

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)
hybrid

2/12/26*: Kumaran Ramamurthi

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 (Einstein), to be confirmed.

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

4/28/26: Tuesday Lambda lunch, Dianne Newman (Caltech) to be confirmed.

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 PM, Bldg. 37, Rm. 6107/6041. Paul Rainey (Max Planck Inst.for
Evolutionary Biology) "Evolution of evolvability in bacteria".  (E.
Koonin).

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


*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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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 11:24AM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Rilee Zeinert (Storz lab): Regulating proteolysis with microproteins.

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