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.

NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.


Date:         Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0500
From: Robert Weisberg 
Subject: Lambda Lunch update
To: LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV


Lambda Lunch update, 12/8/08:


12/8/08, 5/127, 12:00 noon:  Michael Cox (University of Wisconsin)
"Recombinational DNA repair in Bacteria" (Dan Camerini)

12/11/08*, 10:00 AM:  Joseph Falke (U. Col.) "The bacterial
chemotaxis pathway: Signaling mechanism of an ultrasensitive and
ultrastable receptor array" (Cezar Khursigara)

12/12/08, Bldg 37, 6th floor conf. room, 12:15 PM: Patrick Viollier
(Case Western Reserve Medical School) "Polarity, cell fate and
division control in an asymmetric bacterium" (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)
CORRECTION:
The talk by Patrick Viollier will be at 1:30, not 12:15, in the 6th
floor conference room, Bldg. 37.


12/18/08*:  Carl Kingsford (U MD) "Transcription Terminators, DNA
uptake, and Overlapping Genes" (Susan Gottesman)

1/8/09*:  Lukas Tamm

1/12/09, Bldg. 37, 4th floor conference room, 1:30 PM:  Heath Murray
(Newcastle University, J. Errington lab) "Regulation of the DNA
replication initiator protein DnaA by the Par ABS system in Bacillus
subtilis"  (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

1/15/09*:  Venigalla Rao (Catholic U)(Sankar Adhya)

1/22/09*:  Vitaly Epshtein (NYU)

1/23/09, Bldg. 37, 6th floor conference room, 12:15 PM:  Natividad
Ruiz (Princeton University, Silhavy lab) "Bioinformatic
identification of envelope biogenesis factors in Escherichia coli"
(Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

2/3/09, Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041, 1:30 PM:  Kumaran Ramamurthi (Harvard
University, Losick lab) "Morphogenesis in a bacterium"  (Gigi Storz &
Susan Gottesman)

2/5/09*:  Sunney Xie (Harvard) (Sankar Adhya)

2/6/09, Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041, 1:30 PM:  Narashimham Sundarsan (Yale,
Breaker lab) "Genetic regulation by riboswitches" (Gigi Storz & Susan
Gottesman)

2/19/09*:  Erik Sontheimer (Northwestern Univ) (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

2/26/09*:  Nancy Craig (Hopkins) "Tales of Transposons" (Bob Weisberg)

3/5/09*:  Victoria Robinson (U. Conn, Storrs) "The association of
BipA and the ribosome contribute to regulation of stress processes in
Salmonella" (Mike Cashel)

3/12/09*: Joanna Goldberg

3/18/09, WAL:  Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Gigi Storz)

3/19/09*:  Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Gigi Storz)


*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM in Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041. To
schedule seminars, contact Susan Gottesman
(susang@helix.nih.gov) or Bob Weisberg
(rweisberg@nih.gov). To meet with an outside speaker,
contact the person whose name is in parentheses.

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