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.



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1/7/26:  WALS: 2 PM, Bldg. 10, Lipsett auditorium. Yasmine Belkaid
(Institut Pasteur) "Immune control of host physiology"     Videocast:
[1]https://videocast.nih.gov

1/8/26*: No LAMBDA LUNCH; Sergei Sukharev rescheduled to 2/5.

1/15/26*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins" (hybrid, link
will be sent next weekend).

1/22/26*: Rilee Zeinert (Storz lab) "Regulating proteolysis with
microproteins"

1/29/26*: Fran Harris (Xiao lab, JHU) "The Role of Repetitive
Extragenic Palindromes (REPs) in the E. coli Genome."  (S. Gottesman)

2/5/26*: Sergei Sukharev (U. Maryland) "Surviving fresh water: the
adaptive hypotonic permeability response in bacteria" (M. Galperin)

2/12/26*: Kumaran Ramamurthi

2/25/26: 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 6107/6041: Joshua Strout (U. Notre
Dame) (Anu Khare)

4/7/26: TUESDAY, 11:00 AM, Bldg. 37, Rm 2107/2041: Jorg Vogel
(Helmholtz Inst. for RNA-based Infection Research, Wurzburg, Germany)
(G. Storz).

4/9/26*: Namrata Deka (grad student, Armbruster lab, SUNY Buffalo)
(Vani Panda)

4/27/26: MONDAY WALS: Dianne Newman (Caltech). "Unveiling low-power
survival strategies on life's metabolic edge".   (A. Khare)

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)

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


*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
<[2]mailto:Gottesms@mail.nih.gov >Susan Gottesman or Gisela Storz
([3]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
<[4]mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV>[5]LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. Replace
'your name' by your first and last names; or (2) go to
[6]http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find Lambda_Lunch-L, and
follow the instructions.  If you're not at NIH, contact
[7]Gottesms@mail.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [8]https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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Bldg 37, Rm 5132                        Lab:  240-760-7843

37 Convent Drive, NIH

Bethesda, MD 20892

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References

1. https://videocast.nih.gov/
2. mailto:Gottesms@mail.nih.gov
3. mailto:storzg@mail.nih.gov
4. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
5. mailto:LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
6. http://list.nih.gov/
7. mailto:susang@helix.nih.gov
8. https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Falum.mit.edu%2Fwww%2Ftoms%2Flambda.html&data=05%7C02%7Cschneidt%40mail.nih.gov%7C056029fbf3e6459f186408de4c6a09b2%7C14b77578977342d58507251ca2dc2b06%7C0%7C0%7C639032215465723044%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uTdB7eNJt1qYk85pxi%2B61gLAvNYR4s6RKNH002zQR00%3D&reserved=0

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