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: Susan Gottesman 
To: List LAMBDA_LUNCH-L 
Subject: Lambda lunch update and Stadtman seminar information
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:22:40 -0500







Lambda lunch update: 11/26/12

 

·      Send me your nominations for WALs, 2013-2014 by Dec. 10th.  These should be excellent speakers who will appeal to the broader NIH audience and have not recently been here.  Lists of past speakers can be found at ;http://wals.od.nih.gov/NIHLecturersAtoZ.htm
·      The Stadtman candidate seminars are beginning.  Some with prokaryotic topics are highlighted below; the full list (still being updated) is available at https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/x/VwQSBQ.

11/28/12: Wednesday, 11:00 AM, Bldg. 50, 2nd floor library (room 2328) David Rueda (Imperial College), “Protein-nucleic acid interactions at the single molecule level” (Adrian Ferré-D’Amaré)

11/29/12*: Xuefeng Yin (G. Storz lab) “Regulating a multidrug efflux pump and an ion transporter with small membrane proteins”. 

12/3-12/4/12: 8:30 AM-12:00, Bldg. 31, Rm. 2A48.  Molecular Biology Stadtman Search Seminars. Full schedule attached. Bacterial speaker highlighted below.

12/4/12, 9:00 AM, Bldg. 31, Rm. 2A48: Jiqiang Ling (Yale, Dieter Soll lab),"Rewire the Protein Synthesis Machinery: Mistranslation, Evolution and Engineering"12/6/12*: Monica Markovski (Now at NIH, from T. Bernhardt lab) “Lipoprotein Cofactors Located in the Outer Membrane Activate Bacterial Cell Wall Polymerases”

12/13/12*: 9:00 AM-12:00, Bldg. 37, Rm. 6007: Stadtman Microbiology Search Committee Candidate Seminars: 9:00-10:00: Sasha Levy (Stanford, G. Sherlock lab) “The robustness continuum: when is variation good?”; 10-11:00: Joao Xavier (Memorial Sloan Kettering) “Social interaction in pathogenic and commensal microbial populations"; 11:00-12:00: Mahtab Moayeri (NIAID, Leppla lab) "From Anthrax to the Inflammasome" 

12/13/12: 10:30 AM, 539 Conference room, Frederick:  John Roth (rescheduled): “Origins of gene duplications – defying 40 years of bacterial genetics.”  (J. Sawitzke)

1/10/12: NCI Retreat; no Lambda lunch scheduled.

1/16/13:  3:00 PM Masur Auditorium (WALS): Margaret McFall-Ngai (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Living in a microbial world: Deciphering the molecular language of partnership" (S. Gottesman)

1/17/13*: M. McFall-Ngai (U. Wisconsin) (S. Gottesman)

1/24/13*: Katsu Murakami (Penn State) (Debbie Hinton)

3/14/13*: Eric Cambronne (Oregon Health and Science University) 'Effector protein complexes that prime Legionella pneumophila for human infection' (K. Ramamurthi)

4/18/12*: Amy Vollmer (Swarthmore College) (Gigi Storz)

6/26/13: 3:00 PM Masur Auditorium (WALS): Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University) "Exploring the human gut microbiome: Dining in with trillions of fascinating friends"

 

*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM in Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041. To schedule seminars, contact <mailto:Gottesms@helix.nih.gov >Susan Gottesman. 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 <mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. 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.  If you're not at NIH, contact Gottesms@helix.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also available at https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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