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: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:11:14 -0500
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In case you've forgotten, were on vacation, we start our speakers for
2017 tomorrow.  Note that there are speakers on Wednesday, 11 AM, in
Bldg. 49 for next week (1/11) and the following week (1/18), as well as
a lambda lunch on 1/19.

1/5/17*: Yuri Wolf (NCBI) "The emerging theory of microbial genome
evolution"

1/11/17: Wednesday, 11 AM, Bldg. 49, 1A51/1A59: Stadtman Finalist
Anupama Khare (S. Tavazoie lab, Columbia) " Systems-level investigation
of multi-species bacterial interactions". (S. Gottesman, G. Storz)

1/12/17*: Speaker needed

1/18/17: Wednesday, 11 AM, Bldg. 49, 1A51/1A59: Chris Lok-To Sham (T.
Bernhardt lab, HMS) "MurJ is the flippase of lipid-linked precursors of
peptidoglycan biogenesis." (S. Gottesman, G. Storz)

1/19/17*: Somenath Bakshi (Paulsson lab, Harvard) "Following a Single
Bacterium Along The Growth-Curve"  (D. Chattoraj)

1/25/17: 11 AM, Bldg. 8, Rm. 127: Paul Babitzke (Penn State)
"Mechanisms of NusG-stimulated RNA polymerase pausing and
NusA-dependent transcription termination." (D. Hinton)

1/26/17*: Paul Babitzke (Penn State) "Post-transcription initiation
control of bacterial gene expression: Going global with CsrA." (S.
Gottesman)

2/2/17*: Joao Xavier (Memorial Sloan Kettering) "Ecology of the
intestinal microbiome" (Susan Gottesman)

2/9/17*: Tu Anh Huynh (U. Washington) (S. Gottesman, G. Storz)

2/15/17: WALS: Kim Lewis (Northeastern Univ.) "New antibiotics from the
microbial dark matter"

2/15/17*: Kim Lewis (Northeastern Univ). Tentative.

2/22/17: WALS: Dan R. Littman (NYU) "The microbiotia as instructor and
arbiter of immune responses in health and disease"

3/23/17*: Jodi Camberg (U. Rhode Island) (Shannon Doyle)

4/18/17*: WALS: Suzanne Walker (Harvard): "The split personality of
human O-GlcNAc transferase".

4/26/17: Jorg Vogel (U. Wurzburg) (tentative)

4/26/17: WALS: Yasmine Belkaid "The primary shield: roles of our
microbes in health and diseases".

5/17/17: WALS: Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School): "Brave new
world: recent evolution of an insect-transmitted pathogen"

5/18/17*: Roberto Kolter (Harvard) (tentative)

6/21/17: WALS: Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan-Kettering) "Structural
biology of gene, epigenetic and immune regulation"

6/28/17: WALS: Feng Zhang (Broad Institute) "Word processor for the
genome: technologies for improving our understanding and treatment of
diseases"

9/7/17*: David Sherratt (hosted by CECB, CCR) (Susan Gottesman)


*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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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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