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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Welcome back to Lambda Lunch for 2026!  We've had to rearrange a bit
(and may need to again, if government isn't funded beyond Feb. 1), but
will start the new season this Thursday with a hybrid talk, usual time
and place.

1/15/26*: Jose Hernandez Valle (PhD work; now Storz lab)  "Connecting
Quorum Sensing and CtrA to control the lifestyles of Rhodobacter
sphaeroides." Hybrid

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

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

2/19/26*: Gianlucca Nicastro (NCBI, Aravind lab): "Comparative genomics
uncovers an underappreciated diversity of Salmonella T6SS effectors and
helps identify a novel class of phospholipase toxins"

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

2/26/26 and March dates. Speakers needed.

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
<[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
[6]Gottesms@mail.nih.gov. Susan Gottesman. This schedule is also
available at [7]https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 1:12PM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: Lambda Lunch -
Jose Hernandez Valle -Quorum Sensing and CtrA in Rhodobacter
sphaeroides

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