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NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.


Date:         Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:40:20 -0400
From: Susan Gottesman 
Subject: Fwd: Lambda Lunch update
To: LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV


Lambda Lunch update, 10/9/07:


10/11/07, 9:30 AM, Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041:  Christophe Herman,
(Baylor) "Regulation of transcription through secondary channel of
RNA polymerase" (Mike Cashel)

10/11/07*: Abigail Salyers (U. Ill.) "Unanswered questions about
conjugative transposons:  Are they really something different or just
phage lambda in another guise?"  (Sankar Adhya)

10/12/07, 10:00 AM, Bldg 50, Rm 1517:  Roger Hendrix "Comparative
Phage Genomics and Capsidomics: an Answer to the Ultimate Question of
Life"

10/18/07*:  Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

10/22/07, 4:00 PM, Building 32TII Conference Room:  Bonnie Bassler
"Cell-Cell Communication and Virulence in Vibrio cholerae: A New
Quorum-Sensing Pathway and A New Autoinducer" (Gigi Storz)

10/25/07, 9:30 AM, Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041:  Lucia Rothman-Denes
"Bacteriophage N4-host interactions: novel strategies for successful
infection" (Bob Weisberg)

10/25/07*:  Bill Studier "E. coli B, phage T7, and auto-induction for
protein production" (Bob Weisberg)

11/1/07*:  Bob Weisberg "Suppression of transcriptional pausing by
RNA anchoring"

12/6/07* (tentative):  David Botstein (Susan Gottesman)

12/13/07* Dan Kearns, Indiana University (Errett Hobbs/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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NIH, send the following message from the computer where you usually
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LAMBDA_LUNCH-L your name. Replace "your name" by your first and last
names; or go to http://list.nih.gov/, browse the lists to find
Lambda_Lunch-L, and follow the instructions to join.  If you're not
at NIH, contact Bob Weisberg. This
schedule is also available at
https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.

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