NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.

From: "Gottesman, Susan (NCI)" 
To: List LAMBDA_LUNCH-L 
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:57:56 -0500
Subject: Lambda lunch update


Lambda lunch update: 1/30/12
Please note info on Institute of Medicine meeting on "Social Biology of Microbial Communities" below.

2/2/12*: Henry Levin "What we can learn from high throughput sequencing of transposon integration?"
2/7/12: 4-5:30 PM, Bldg. 31, Rm. 2A48: RNA club, Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena (S. Woodson lab, JHU) "Nucleating 30S ribosome assembly through protein-RNA induced fit" and Wade Winkler (U. MD) "Mechanism for post-initiation control by bacterial two-component regulatory systems". (R. Maraia).

2/08/12: WALS, Dyer Lecture (3:00 PM, Masur Auditorium) Karen Guillemin (U. of Oregon) "Molecular Dialogues with the Microbiota: Insights from the Zebrafish Intestine" (Joe Campbell, josephca@mail.nih.gov)
2/09/12*: Victor Torres (NYU School of Medicine) (M. Machner)

2/16/12:* Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins; previously in L. Shapiro lab) "The great divide: building a bacterial cytokinesis machine" (Kumaran Ramamurthi)

2/23/12*: Tod Merkel "Pertussis Transmission and Disease"
2/24/12: 3:30 PM, Lipsett Auditorium, Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) (Brian L. Kelsall, BKELSALL@niaid.nih.gov; Mucosal Immunology and Microbiome Interest Group)

3/1/12: WALs (on Thursday), 3:00 PM, Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10: Jo Handelsman, Yale University "Phalanx or Traitor? Impact of Gut Microbial Communities on Insect Health" (S. Gottesman)

3/6/12-3/7/12: The Social Biology of Microbial Communities; Institute of Medicine, Washington DC. Free registration; program is attached; registration is  required: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/765586/BGH-Social-Biology-of-Microbial-Communities-3-6-7-12

3/8/12* Elliott Crooke (Georgetown) (G. Storz)

3/22/12:* Dan Larson (NCI) "How do transcription factors control transcription rate?"

4/5/12*: Kim Orth (UT Southwestern) (M. Machner)

4/19/12:* Jeffrey F. Miller (UCLA) (S. Gottesman)

5/3/12*: Mark Buttner (John Innes Institute) (G. Storz)

5/17/12*: Ralph Isberg (Tufts University) (M. Machner)

7/14/12*: Bob LaRossa (Dupont) (G. Storz)

*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM in Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041. To schedule seminars, contact Susan Gottesman. To meet with an outside speaker, contact the person whose name is in parentheses.
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