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.



From gottesms@MAIL.NIH.GOV Sun Sep 14 21:21:34 +0000 2025
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Subject: Peggy Cotter, Wednesday at 11 - in person only; no Thursday talk this week
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THIS WEEK: Peggy Cotter talk is in-person only, at speaker's request.
Thursday virtual lambda lunch has been shifted to next week (9/25).

We are now scheduling talks for winter/spring 2026.


9/17/25: 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 6107/6041: Peggy Cotter (UNC)
"Secretion and function of the Bordetella Two Partner Secretion pathway
protein FhaB: A historical perspective" (Anu Khare) IN PERSON ONLY

9/18/25*: No lambda lunch planned.

9/25/25*: Andres Canela (Kyoto University); "Chromosome domains
in Escherichia coli are DNA entanglements produced by transcription and
replication and solved by MukBEF and Topoisomerase IV." (VIRTUAL)

10/2/25*: Yom Kippur, no Lambda Lunch

10/9/25*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"

10/16/25*: Sergei Sukharev (U. Maryland) "Surviving fresh water: the
adaptive hypotonic permeability response in bacteria" (M. Galperin)

10/23/25*: José Hernández Valle (PhD work with L. Camaerena,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; currently in Storz lab)

10/30/25*: Bill Jacobs (Albert Einstein) (G. Storz)

11/6/25*: Kumari Kavita (Yale U., Breaker lab) (virtual).

11/13/25*: 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)

11/20/25*: Elise White (Sarah Woodson lab, JHU) "Hfq as
a Molecular Matchmaker: Letting sRNAs Explore Before They Commit". (S.
Gottesman)

12/4/25*: Hubert Savail (U. Central Florida) (N. Majdalani)

12/11/25*: Tamara O'Connor (JHU) (M. Machner)

12/17/25: 2 PM, Lipsett, WALS: Dianne Newman (Caltech). "Unveiling
low-power survival strategies on life's metabolic edge".

12/18/25*: Saved for possible D. Newman lambda lunch.

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


*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
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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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