NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:24:00 +0000
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From: "Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E]" gottesms@MAIL.NIH.GOV
Subject: WALS, MON and FRI, TUESDAY LAMBDA LUNCH- D. Newman: Giving goo its due: biofilm matrix physicochemistry tunes electron transfer effiiciency
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A week full of science:

WALS talks on Monday and Friday, 2 PM, bldg. 10 (see rooms below);
available on NIH video cast (https//videocast.nih.gov; scroll through
to find the proper talk).  WALs talks are also recorded for future
viewing.

Lambda lunches both Tuesday (second floor) and Thursday (usual spot).

4/27/26: MONDAY WALS (2 PM, Lipsett Auditorium, Bldg. 10): Dianne
Newman (Caltech). "Unveiling low-power survival strategies on life's
metabolic edge".  IN PERSON STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.  Also: NIH videocast:
https//videocast.nih.gov.

4/28/26: SECOND FLOOR CONF ROOM, Bldg. 37: 11:00 AM, TUESDAY LAMBDA
LUNCH: Dianne Newman (Caltech), "Giving goo its due: biofilm matrix
physicochemistry tunes extracellular electron transfer efficiency" (A.
Khare)

4/30/26*: Nick Vereecke (Dekker Lab, NIAID) "Intra-host evolution of
the opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia vietnamiensis in an
IL-12Rb1 deficient host"

5/1/26: FRIDAY WALS, Nirenberg Lecture: 2:00, Masur Auditorium.  Jack
Szostak (U. Chicago) "The surprising chemistry of nonenzymatic RNA
replication" (Lambda lunch nominated; G. Storz). Also videocast:
https//videocast.nih.gov.

5/7/26*: Rasika Harshey (UT Austin) `Nucleolus-like Organization of
Ribosomal RNA Loci in E. coli' (Virtual) (Anirban Banerjee)

5/14/26*: Orlando (Landon)Deleon (E. Chang lab, U. Chicago) "Why you
need to match microbes to their ecosystem: Roles of regional microbiota
in shaping tissue identity, function, and healing" (A. Martini)

5/21/26*: Harris Bernstein (NIDDK) in person only.

5/28/26*: Nadine Samara (NIDCR) "Characterizing biofilm
polysaccharides from the oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum"

6/3/26: 3:00 PM, Bldg. 37 Conference room: Paul Rainey (Max-Planck Inst
for Evol. Bio.) "`Evolution of evolvability in bacteria" (E. Koonin)

6/4/26*: No lambda lunch (ASM, in DC).

6/11/26*: Kelley Gallagher (Cornell). (F. Ramos-Leon).

6/25/26*: Guillaume Urtecho (UCSD) (M. Sadhu)

7/30/26*: Jake Lemieux (MGH/Harvard Medical School) (P. Adams)

4/7/27: WALS: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford)

4/8/27*: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford) (K. Ramamurthi).

5/25/27: WALS: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton)

5/26/27*: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton).


*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM (Eastern Time) in Bldg 37, Rm
6107/6041.  We will also arrange for these to be available on Webex,
with links sent out each week. To schedule seminars, contact
<[1]mailto:Gottesms@mail.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
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follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 11:10AM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: TUESDAY LAMBDA
LUNCH- D. Newman: Giving goo its due: biofilm matrix physicochemistry
tunes electron transfer effiiciency


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