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: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:23:07 -0500
From: Susan Gottesman [gottesms@HELIX.NIH.GOV]
Subject: Lambda lunch update
To: [LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV]


UPCOMING EVENTS  IN DECEMBER: Stadtman minisymposia.  I've listed
information available on the Microbiology subcommittee candidates;
please send me information on other relevant candidates coming as part
of these searches, and I'll advertise them on the lambda lunch list.
Details of room/time/precise titles are still lacking but will be added
as they become available.

11/13/14*: Mandy Oglesby-Sherrouse (U. MD School of Medicine) "Role of
Small RNAs in Iron Homeostasis and Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
(Gigi Storz)

11/19/14: 10 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm. 5111: Peter Chien (U. Mass, Amherst)
"Regulated protein degradation during a bacterial cell cycle"  (Kumaran
Ramamurthi)

11/20/14*: Jonathan Dworkin (Columbia) (Kumaran Ramamurthi)

12/4/14*: Julia Oh (J. Segre lab) "The host, its microbes, and disease:
the landscape of the skin microbiome"

12/10/14: WALS (3 PM, Masur Auditorium): John Mekalanos (Harvard) "The
extraordinary bacterial Type VI secretion machine" (Susan Gottesman)

12/11/14: Time/Place TBA: Stadtman Microbiology Minisymposium Part I:
Seth Childers (Lucy Shapiro lab, How signaling and scaffolding systems
are dynamically wired and engineering complex cellular decision-making
processes); Douglas Bernstein (Gerry Fink lab, role of pseudouridine
particularly in Candida)

12/16/14: Time/Place TBA: Stadtman Microbiology Minisymposium Part II:
Amanda Lewis (own lab at Wash U, glycobiology of host-pathogen
interactions, many in female urogenital tract); Dor Salomon (Kim Orth
lab, T6SS in gram-negative bacteria and effectors secreted by systems);
Anthony Vecchiarelli (Kiyoshi Mizuuchi lab, trafficking of
bacterial organelles)

1/28/15: WALS (3 PM, Masur Auditorium): Arturo Casadevall (Albert
Einstein College of Medicine) "Insights into microbial pathogenesis and
immunology from Cryptococcus neoformans"

2/12/15*: David Sherratt (U. Oxford) (Susan Gottesman; cosponsored by
CCR CECB)

2/27/15: Sean Brady (Rockefeller) Time/Place TBA (Matt Hall, LCB, NCI)

3/11/15: WALS (3 PM, Masur Auditorium) Jennifer Doudna (UC Berkeley)
"The biology of CRISPRs: From genome defense to Genomic engineering"

3/26/15*: Jean Francois Collet (De Duve Institute, Belgium) (N.
Majdalani)

4/1/15: tentatively 11 AM: Ben Luisi (U. Cambridge, UK) (Gigi
Storz/Susan Gottesman)

4/9/15*: Cameron Mura (U. Virginia) (Gigi Storz)

5/13/15: WALS: Lalita Ramakrishnan (U. Washington) "The zebrafish guide
to tuberculosis"  (Gigi Storz)


*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 or
Gisela Storz ([2]storzg@mail.nih.gov). 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
[[3]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV][4]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'your name' by your first and last names; or (2) go to
[5]http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find Lambda_Lunch-L, and
follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
[6]Gottesms@helix.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [7]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:storzg@mail.nih.gov
3. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
4. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
5. http://list.nih.gov/
6. mailto:susang@helix.nih.gov
7. https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html

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