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, 5 Oct 2015 12:35:35 -0400
From: Susan Gottesman [gottesms@HELIX.NIH.GOV]
Subject: lambda lunch update
To: [LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV]


NOTE: COME OUT TO HEAR THE WALS, nominated by lambda lunch!

After or before, visit the display of lunch bags by Judy Weisberg on
the fifth floor of Bldg. 10, atrium (near the older building).  These
decorated lunch bags were made by Judy for her husband, Bob Weisberg,
to have at lunch every day at the NIH.  Bob was one of the founders and
long-time organizer of lambda lunch.

10/7/15: WALS: Lalita Ramakrishnan (U. Washington) "The zebrafish guide
to tuberculosis"  (Gigi Storz)

NO LAMBDA LUNCH THIS WEEK (but late volunteers will be accepted)

10/15/15*: Mona Wu Orr (V. Lee lab, U. MD) "Oligoribonuclease is the
primary degradative enzyme for pGpG in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is
required for cyclic-di-GMP turnover" (G. Storz)

10/22/15*: Natalya Yutin (NCBI): "Discovery of novel genetic elements
in metagenomic data"

10/28/15: 11:00 AM: Bldg. 8, Rm. 127 Sua Myong (Johns Hopkins
University)

 "Single Molecule Probing of Protein-Nucleic acid Interaction" (K.
Moon)

10/28/15: Time/place to be determined.  Ken Keiler (Penn State) (G.
Storz)

11/5/15*: Mark Goulian (U. Penn) (G. Storz)

11/12/15*: DOUBLE HEADER: 9:30: Wade Winkler (U. MD); 11:00: Eric Masse
(U. Sherbrooke)"Gone fishing: mapping the targetome of small RNAs" (N.
Majdalani/S. Gottesman)

12/3/15*: Kira Makarova (NCBI) "Hidden gems: functional prediction of
archaeal membrane systems using `guilt by association' and comparative
genomics approach"

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)

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
[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

Previous Lambda Lunch Meeting Schedules

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