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Previous Lambda Lunch Meeting Schedules
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Thread-Topic: VIRTUAL ONLY: Lambda Lunch - Kumari Kavita (Yale,
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Subject: VIRTUAL ONLY: Lambda Lunch - Kumari Kavita (Yale, Breaker lab): Guanidine aptamers in vertebrate RNAs
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LAMBDA LUNCH: VIRTUAL ONLY THIS WEEK. Seeking speakers for Feb. and
beyond.
WALS nominations: Send your suggestions for 2026-27 season by
tomorrow, Dec. 15th and why they are a good choice. To check if your
candidate spoke in the last five years, see:
[1]https://oir.nih.gov/wals/past-lecture-seasons-speakers. NOTE: many
of these past talks are archived, available for listening to!
Last year, we submitted three names (M. Fischbach, D. Newman and J.
Szostak), with the last two invited for this year. Other top
votegetters from last year will be included on ballot, to be sent week
of Dec. 15th. If your favorite does not reach the top of lambda lunch
voting, please feel free to nominate individually (see link on
attachment), but let us know.
12/18/25*: Kumari Kavita (Yale U., Breaker lab) "Guanidine Aptamers in
Vertebrate RNAs: Extending Riboswitch Biology Beyond
Microbes". (Virtual)
Winter break: No lambda lunch on Christmas or New Year's!
1/8/26*: Sergei Sukharev (U. Maryland) "Surviving fresh water: the
adaptive hypotonic permeability response in bacteria" (M. Galperin)
1/15/26*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"
1/22/26*:José Hernández Valle (PhD work with L. Camaerena, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; currently in Storz lab) "Connecting Quorum
Sensing and CtrA to control the lifestyles of Rhodobacter sphaeroides."
1/29/26*: Fran Harris (Xiao lab, JHU) "The Role of Repetitive
Extragenic Palindromes (REPs) in the E. coli Genome." (S. Gottesman)
2/12/26*: Kumaran Ramamurthi
2/25/26: 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 6107/6041: Joshua Strout (U. Notre
Dame) (Anu Khare)
4/9/26*: Namrata Deka (grad student, Armbruster lab, SUNY Buffalo)
(Vani Panda)
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)
6/4/26*: 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
<[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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From: Susan Gottesman
Schneider Lab
origin: 1998 Mar 31
updated: 2012 Feb 09