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.

NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.


Date:         Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:00:00 -0400
From: Robert Weisberg 
Subject: Lambda Lunch Update
To: LAMBDA_LUNCH-L@LIST.NIH.GOV


Lambda Lunch Update, 3/30/09


4/2/09*:  Michele Swanson (U. Mich):  "Magic spot, conjurer of
Legionella virulence." (Mike Cashel)

4/9/09*: Dolph Hatfield:  "A single codon decodes specifically two
amino acids at internal positions of protein: A new wrinkle in the
genetic code"

4/16/09*:  Susan Buchanan:  "An engineered phage lysin crosses the
bacterial outer membrane"

4/23/09*:  Ichizo Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) "Selfish genes vs.
genome society: dynamics in bacterial genome evolution" (Dhruba Chattorj)

5/13/09: WAL (3:00 PM, Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10): James Collins, BU
"Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology"

5/15/09: 12:15: Bldg. 37, Rm. 6107: Steve Busby (University of
Birmingham) "Regulation at simple and complex bacterial promoters"
(Susan Gottesman)

*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.

You can join the mailing list in the following ways if you're at
NIH.  (1) Send the following message from the computer where you
usually receive mail to
LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV: SUBSCRIBE
LAMBDA_LUNCH-L your name. Replace "your name" by your first and last
names; or (2) 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 to join. This schedule is also available
at  https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/lambda.html.


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Bldg 37, Rm 5138                        Lab:  301-496-3555
37 Convent Drive, NIH                   Fax:         -2212
Bethesda, MD 20892
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Previous Lambda Lunch Meeting Schedules

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