NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

Lambda lunch update: 12/2/12

· If you are interested in a two-day hands-on SEED workshop (Comparative genome analysis) to Valerie de Crecy is organizing for the DC area this spring, let me know. She is trying to get a rough idea of level of interest.

- Send me your nominations for WALs, 2013-2014 by Dec. 7^th (new, earlier deadline). These should be excellent speakers who will appeal to the broader NIH audience and have not recently been here. Voting will be week of Dec. 10^th. 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.

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

MONDAY, 12/3/12, 9:55 AM, Bldg. 31, Rm. 2A48: Timothy Street (UCSF, D. Agard lab), "Revealing the functional mechanism of the Hsp90 molecular chaperone"

TUESDAY, 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) “They've got rhythm: circadian control of symbiosis” (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)

3/28/12* Chase Beisel (North Carolina State Univ.) “Bacterial sugar utilization at the single-cell level”

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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Bldg 37, Rm 5132 Lab: 301-496-3524

37 Convent Drive, NIH

Bethesda, MD 20892

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