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.



From gottesms@MAIL.NIH.GOV Sun Sep 6 19:51:01 +0000 2026
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 19:50:41 +0000
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Subject: FW: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: One on One, Anu and Susan
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Please see link here re the death of Ranjan Sen, a past member of the
NIH prokaryotic research community, working with Bob Weisberg, and
continued contributor to understanding Rho and transcription
termination.

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bric-cdfd_remembering-dr-ranjan-sen-i
t-is-with-profound-activity-7500050215358627840-MctV/?utm_source=share&
utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABIsKNAB6EGMGYqojFg_0N_GkFbSAgBIG24


9/10/26*: Ann Deng and Lorna Mitchison-Field (Belin lab, JHU) "Cell
biology of hopanoids in Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens" (Felix
Ramos-Leon) (hybrid)

9/17/26*; Research Festival, no Lambda Lunch

9/18/26: CCR Grand Rounds, 12:00, Lipsett Auditorium (Bldg. 10):
Kumaran Ramamurthi "Building an Infection: How Cell Division
Organizes Staphylococcus aureusVirulence".

9/24/26*: SPEAKER NEEDED

10/1/26*: Vani Pande (Ramamurthi lab) "A lipid cue drives the
subcellular localization of a self-inserting bacterial transmembrane
protein"

10/8/26*: Jo Schmidt (Storz lab).

10/15/26*: Andreas Gahlman (U. Va) "Substrate-Dependent Kinetic
Remodeling of the Type III Secretion Injectisome Revealed by Live-Cell
Single-Molecule Imaging." (Eun Ho Song)

10/22/26*: Ned Ruby (CalTech) (virtual)

11/6/26*: Mona Orr (Amherst) (G. Storz)

11/12/26*: Jade Wang (U. Wisconsin) "GTP at the Crossroads: How Stress
Responses Rewire Metabolism and the Epitranscriptome in Gram-Positive
Bacteria" (K. Ramamurthi)

11/19/26*: Nicole Marino (U. Penn) "Translation-dependent degradation
of cas12a mRNA by an anti-CRISPR" (S. Gottesman)

12/3/26*:Xinyun (Sherry) Cao (UT Southwestern) (G. Storz)

12/10/26*: Maryam Kohram (Georgetown U.) (A. Khare)

12/17/26*: Venigalla Rao (Catholic U.) (D. Hinton).

4/7/27: WALS: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford) "Illuminating Lyme
Disease: The Unusual Cell Biology and Pathogenicity of Borrelia
burgdorferi" (K. Ramamurthi).

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

4/29/27*: Benjamin Tu (UT Southwestern) (G. Storz)

5/25/27: WALS: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) "Quorum Sensing Across
Domains: From Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes"

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
<[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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From: Susan Gottesman 
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 3:23PM
To: Gottesman, Susan (NIH/NCI) [E] 
Subject: (Forward to others) Webex meeting invitation: One on One, Anu
and Susan

You can forward this invitation to others.
Susan Gottesman is inviting you to a scheduled Webex meeting.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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References

1. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bric-cdfd_remembering-dr-ranjan-sen-it-is-with-profound-activity-7500050215358627840-MctV/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABIsKNAB6EGMGYqojFg_0N_GkFbSAgBIG24
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