NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.

Date:         Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0500
From: Robert Weisberg 
Subject: Lambda Lunch update
To: LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV


Lambda Lunch update, 12/1/08:


12/2/08, 3 PM, Bldg 10/Masur:  John Collier 
(Harvard Med) "Structure and Function of the Anthrax Toxin Pore"

12/3/08, 3 PM, Bldg 10/Masur:  Jon 
Beckwith  (Harvard Med) "Evolution and Diversity 
of Pathways for Disulfide Bond Formation and Reduction"

12/4/08*:  Jon Beckwith (Susan Gottesman) 
"Following disulfide bond formation as a means of 
studying protein folding in the periplasm"

12/5/08, 2:00 PM, 6B/429:  Marc Drolet 
(Université de Montréal) "Roles of RNase HI in DNA topology" (Bob Crouch)

12/8/08, 5/127, 12:00 noon:  Michael Cox 
(University of Wisconsin) in Madison 
"Recombinational DNA repair in Bacteria" (Dan Camerini)

12/11/08*, 10:00 AM:  Joseph Falke (U. Col.) "The 
bacterial chemotaxis pathway: Signaling mechanism 
of an ultrasensitive and ultrastable receptor array" (Cezar Khursigara)

12/12/08, Bldg 37, 6th floor conf. room, 12:15 
PM: Patrick Viollier (Case Western Reserve 
Medical School) "Polarity, cell fate and division 
control in an asymmetric bacterium" (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

12/18/08*:  Carl Kingsford (U MD) "Transcription 
Terminators, DNA uptake, and Overlapping Genes" (Susan Gottesman)

1/8/09*:  Lukas Tamm

1/12/09, Bldg. 37, 4th floor conference room, 
1:30 PM:  Heath Murray (Newcastle University, J. 
Errington lab) "Regulation of the DNA replication 
initiator protein DnaA by the Par ABS system in 
Bacillus subtilis"  (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

1/15/09*:  Venigalla Rao (Catholic U)(Sankar Adhya)

1/22/09*:  Vitaly Epshtein (NYU)

1/23/09, Bldg. 37, 6th floor conference room, 
12:15 PM:  Natividad Ruiz (Princeton University, 
Silhavy lab) "Bioinformatic identification of 
envelope biogenesis factors in Escherichia coli" (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

2/3/09 (Room/time to be announced): Kumaran 
Ramamurthi (Harvard University, Losick lab) 
"Morphogenesis in a bacterium"  (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

2/5/09*:  Sunney Xie (Harvard) (Sankar Adhya)

2/19/09*:  Erik Sontheimer (Northwestern Univ) (Gigi Storz & Susan Gottesman)

2/26/09*:  Nancy Craig (Hopkins) "Tales of Transposons" (Bob Weisberg)

3/5/09*:  Victoria Robinson (U. Conn, Storrs) 
"The association of BipA and the ribosome 
contribute to regulation of stress processes in Salmonella" (Mike Cashel)

3/12/09*: Joanna Goldberg

3/18/09, WAL:  Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Gigi Storz)

3/19/09*:  Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Gigi Storz)


*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM in Bldg 37, Rm 
6107/6041. To schedule seminars, contact Susan 
Gottesman (susang@helix.nih.gov) or Bob 
Weisberg (rweisberg@nih.gov). To meet 
with an outside speaker, contact the person whose name is in parentheses.

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