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:         Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:00:00 -0500
From: Robert Weisberg 
Subject: Lambda Lunch Update
To: LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV


Lambda Lunch Update, 2/22/09:


2/23/09, 50/1327, 12 PM:  Reidun Twarock (University of York, UK)
"Hidden symmetries in virus architecture:  their implications for
virus assembly, structural transitions and viral evolution"

2/25/09: 10/Masur, 3 PM:  David Relman (Stanford) "Explorations of
inner space: human microbial communities in health and disease"

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

3/5/09*:  [CHANGE IN ROOM:  Bldg. 37, 2nd Floor Conference room,
today only!!]  Victoria Robinson (U. Conn, Storrs) "The association
of BipA and the ribosome contribute to regulation of stress processes
in Salmonella" (Mike Cashel)

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

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

3/26/09*:  Venigalla Rao (Catholic U)(Sankar Adhya)

4/2/09*:  Michele Swanson (U. Mich)  "PppGp in Legionella"  (Mike Cashel)

4/9/09*: Dolph Hatfield "A single codon decodes specifically two
amino acids at internal positions of protein: A new wrinkle in the
genetic code"

4/23/09*:  Ichizo Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) "Selfish DNases
programming bacterial death"


*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.

You can join the mailing list in the following ways if you're at
NIH.  (1) Send the following message from the computer where you
usually receive mail to LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV: SUBSCRIBE
LAMBDA_LUNCH-L your name. Replace "your name" by your first and last
names; or (2) go to http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find
Lambda_Lunch-L, and follow the instructions to join.  If you're not
at NIH, contact Bob Weisberg to join. This schedule is also available
at https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

Previous Lambda Lunch Meeting Schedules

  • The Lambda Special Interest Group at NIH
  • Special Interest Groups at NIH
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