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.


Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:50:48 -0500
From: Susan Gottesman 
Subject: Happy New Year, and lambda lunch for 2013
To: 


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Please contact me if you would like to meet with Margaret McFall-Ngai,
this year's lambda lunch-sponsored WALs speaker.  She will be here both
Wednesday, Jan. 16^th and Thursday, Jan. 17^th.  Up to 11  trainees
(postbacs, graduate students, postdocs) can sign up for lunch with her
on Wednesday Jan. 16^th;  a box lunch is provided.  If you are
interested, send me your name.  It will be primarily first come/first
served, but I will also try to distribute between labs/institutes.  It
will be at 12:00; location is still to be determined.

1/3/12*: Sven van Teeffelen (Princeton/Stadtman Biophysics candidate,
in Z. Gitai lab) "The dynamical cytoskeleton regulates morphogenesis in
rod-like bacteria" (S. Gottesman)

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)

SPEAKERS NEEDED: end of January/February and beyond.

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 <[1]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
<[2]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>[3]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'your name' by your first and last names; or (2) go to
[4]http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find Lambda_Lunch-L, and
follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
[5]Gottesms@helix.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [6]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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References

1. mailto:Gottesms@helix.nih.gov
2. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
3. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
4. http://list.nih.gov/
5. mailto:susang@helix.nih.gov
6. https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html

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