NIH Lambda Lunch Meetings

An NIH Special Interest Group.

From: "Gottesman, Susan (NCI)" 
To: List LAMBDA_LUNCH-L 
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:11:39 -0500
Subject: Lambda lunch update


Lambda lunch update: 12/4/11:

*  Over the next three weeks there will be a series of minisymposia/seminars by the first-round selections for the NIH-Wide Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Search.  This is already a highly selected group of applications (top 5%), so worth hearing.  The link for all of the talks:  https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/x/cwJdB
Talks particularly relevant to lambda lunch will be included in the list below; contact the committee chair or contact if you want to meet with the speaker.

12/5/11: 9 AM, Bldg. 31/2A48: Hani Zaher (JHU; R. Green lab) "Dealing with Mistakes: The Ribosome's Response to Misincorporations" (Stadtman Molecular Biology/Biochem candidate; committee chair R. Maraia)

12/08/11*: Elizabeth Grice (NHGRI/J. Segre lab) "The microbiome and impaired cutaneous wound healing"

12/9/11:Bldg. 8, Rm. 127 (10:30 AM): Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Harvard; Kolter lab): "Interrogating Microbial Symbioses to Uncover New Bioactive Molecules" (Stadtman Chemistry/Chemical Biology candidate; contact F. Bernal to meet with candidate; bernalf@mail.nih.gov).

12/15/11: Microbiology/Infectious Diseases Stadtman Minisymposium, Bldg. 10, Rm. 11S235, 9:00-12:00 (see schedule for topics)

BREAK FOR HOLIDAYS: 12/15-12/29

1/5/12*: Aurelia Battesti (S. Gottesman lab)

1/12/12: NCI retreat, no lambda lunch

1/19/12*: Jim Imlay (U. Illinois) "Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress" (L. Waters/G. Storz)

1/26/12*: Fenfei Leng (Florida International U) "DNA topological barriers
and their role in transcription-driven DNA supercoiling" (D. Chattoraj)

2/09/12*: Victor Torres (NYU School of Medicine) (M. Machner)

2/24/12: 3:30 PM, Lipsett Auditorium, Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) (Brian L. Kelsall, BKELSALL@niaid.nih.gov; Mucosal Immunology and Microbiome Interest Group)

3/1/12: WALs (on Thursday), 3:00 PM Masur: Jo Handelsman, Yale University (S. Gottesman)


*Regular lambda lunch at 11:00 AM in Bldg 37, Rm 6107/6041. To schedule seminars, contact Susan Gottesman. To meet with an outside speaker, contact the person whose name is in parentheses.

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