NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:26:04 -0500
From: Susan Gottesman [gottesms@HELIX.NIH.GOV]
Subject: Lambda lunch update, WALS nominations
To: [LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV]


Last chance to send me nominations for WALs for next year's speakers.
Send a brief description of why they would be a good choice to include
in ballot.

Suggestions thus far:
Jon Beckwith (Harvard Medical School)
Tom Bernhardt (Harvard Medical School)
Michael Laub (MIT)
Martin Blaser (NYU)
Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis)
Kit Pogliano (UC San Diego)
Nathalie Cabrol (SETI Institute)
Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School).

Top vote getters carried over from last year: that were not chosen:
Cameron Currie
Harry Noller
Christine Jacobs-Wagner

12/7/15: 10:20 AM, Natcher (Bldg. 45), Balcony A: Stadtman talk, CCR
sponsored: Andrea Reboldi (UCSF) "Mechanisms Controlling Inflammation
and Intestinal IgA Production"

12/10/15*: No lambda lunch;

11 AM, Natcher, Balcony A, Stadtman talk, CCR sponsored: Matthew Barber
(U. Utah):  "Blood and Iron: Evolutionary Conflicts at Host-Microbe
Interfaces"

12/17/15*: Max Burroughs (NCBI) "Novel prokaryotic signaling systems
centered on nucleotides and their derivatives: roles in biological
conflicts and immunity"

WINTER BREAK

1/7/16*: Michael Galperin (NCBI) "A history of the bacterial Na+/K+
gradient"

1/13/16: WALS: Dianne Newman (Cal Tech) "The importance of growing
slowly: roles for redox active "antibiotics" in microbial survival" (S.
Gottesman)

1/14/16*: Dianne Newman (Cal Tech) (to be confirmed)

1/20/16: WALS: Peter Greenberg (U. Washington) "The social life of
bacteria: collapse of a culture" (Susan Gottesman)

1/21/16*: Peter Greenberg (U. Washington)

2/18/16* Kristi Frank (moving to USUHS)

3/10/16*: Carolyn Teschke (U. Conn.; currently Jefferson Fellow, State
Dept). (Shannon Doyle)

3/17/16*: Daniel Dwyer (U. MD) (S. Gottesman)

3/31//16*: Chris Waters (Michigan State) (Kumaran Ramamurthi)

4/27/16: WALS: Man-Wah Tan (Genentech) "Harnessing nature's gift: human
monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics against viral and bacterial
infections"(Julie Segre)

4/28/16*: Man-Wah Tan (Genentech) (to be confirmed)

*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
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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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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