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This alphabetical list includes top vote-getters from the last round of
voting as well as those nominated this year.  SEND YOUR TOP 5 CHOICES,
LISTED IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE, BY NOVEMBER 26.  Remember that appeal to
broad audience as well as diversity of all sorts is important in who
gets chosen by NIH.

Jillian Banfield (UC Berkeley): Microbial communities and how they are
shaped by and shape often extreme environments.

Carlos Bustamante (UC Berkeley): Single molecule approaches examining
transcription, translation, degradation, mitochondrial fission, etc.

Jeff Cox (UC Berkeley): TB expert with focus on interaction of Mtb with
the host.

Heran Darwin (NYU): TB expert who discovered the prokaryotic ubiquitin
system in Mtb, entertaining speaker.

Michael Fischbach (Stanford): Identify small molecules from the human
microbiota that regulate microbial interactions, using genomics,
biochemistry and functional analysis.

Susan Holmes (Stanford): Statistician developing tools for biology,
with an emphasis on microbiome research.

Michael Laub (MIT): Bacterial signaling pathways, toxin-antitoxin
function, cell cycle control.

Kim Seed (UC Berkeley): Molecular Virology of Vibrio phages,
contributions to Vibrio pathogenicity.

Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute): Genomics/Systems Biology approaches:
Bacteria-Phage arms race, bacterial response to antibiotics.

Natalie Strynadka (U. British Columbia): Structure based antibiotic
discovery, inhibitors of antibiotic-resistance mechanisms.

Paul Turner (Yale University): Evolutionary adaptation of viruses in
response to new challenges (novel hosts, transmission via new arthropod
vectors, high temperature, changes in host immunity); use of viruses in
phage therapy and in oncolytic therapy.

If you did not submit a name, or just thought of someone, please go
ahead and nominate directly to WALS
([1]https://oir.nih.gov/wals/wednesday-afternoon-lecture-series-nominat
ions) by the Nov. 29^th deadline.

References

1. https://oir.nih.gov/wals/wednesday-afternoon-lecture-series-nominations