T H E   N I H   C A T A L Y S T    J U L Y  –   A U G U S T   1997

INTERINSTITUTE INTEREST GROUP DIRECTORY

Web Access

Note: Although not all the sites are up to date, nearly all the Interest Groups have web sites that can be accessed at this site.

 

Major Interest Groups

 

Cell Biology Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies, meetings restricted to NIH scientists

Meeting place: Building 18T, Room 101

Contact: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD

Phone: 402-1010; 402-1009

E-mail: <jlippin@helix.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to CELBIO-L

 

Clinical Research Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact #1: Cliff Lane, NIAID

Phone: 496-7196

E-mail: <clane@atlas.niaid.nih.gov>

Contact #2: Harry Keiser, NHLBI

Phone: 496-1518

E-mail: <keiserh@fido.nhlbi.nih.gov>

 

Genetics Interest Group

Meeting time: First or second Tuesday each month, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 49, Conference Room A and B

Contact: Elliot Gershon

Phone: 496-3465

E-mail: <elliotg@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Lynn Hudson

Phone: 496-9660

E-mail: <hudson@helix.nih.gov>

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Immunology Interest Group

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 4:15 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: Larry Samelson

Phone: 402-1400

E-mail: <ls@nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to IMMUNI-L at Listserv@LIST.NIH.GOV

URL: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Shaw/iig/>

 

Molecular Biology/Biochemistry Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Reed Wickner, NIDDK

Phone: 496-3452

E-mail: <wickner@helix.nih.gov>

 

Neurobiology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be determined

Contact: Chip Gerfen, NIMH

Phone: 496-4341

E-mail: <gerfen@helix.nih.gov>

ListServ: JLS@LSR.NEI.NIH.GOV

 

Structural Biology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Announced to members by e-mail and regular mail

Contact: Alasdair Steven, NIAMS

Phone: 496-0132 Fax: 402-3417

E-mail: <steven@calvin.niams.nih.gov>

To register for e-mail announcements:

E-mail <cch@discus.niams.nih.gov>

Other Interest Groups

 

[Groups in brackets are just getting started]

[Acetyltransferase Interest Group

Contact: David Klein

Phone: 496-6915

E-mail: <klein@helix.nih.gov>]

 

AIDS Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Fulvia Veronese, OD/OAR

Phone: 496-3677

E-mail: <fv10X@nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to AIDSINTG-L

 

[Alternative Medicine Interest Group

Contact: Richard Nahin

Phone: 496-4792

E-mail: <nahinr@od31em1.od.nih.gov>]

 

Alzheimer’s Interest Group

Meeting time: First or second Thursday, each month (except summer), 9:00 a.m.

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B13

Contact: Gerald Ehrenstein, NINDS

Phone: 496-3206

E-mail: <gerry@helix.nih.gov>

 

Apoptosis Interest Group

Meeting time: Once a month on Monday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 30, Conference Room 117

Contact: Yves Pommier, NCI

Phone: 496-5944

E-mail: <pommiery@box-p.nih.gov>

 

Behavioral and Social Sciences Interest Group

Meeting time: Does not meet regularly

Meeting place: See Calendar of Events

Contact 1: Jaylan Turkkan, NIDA

Phone: 443-1263

E-mail: <jaylan@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Ron Abeles, NIA

Phone: 594-5943

E-mail: <abelesr@gw.nia.nih.gov>

 

BSSR Methodology and Measurement Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Meeting time: Irregular, often first or second Tuesday, 9:00 a.m.

Meeting place: Gateway, Room 525, or Natcher

Contact: Jared Jobe, NIA

Phone: 496-3137

E-mail: <Jared_Jobe@nih.gov>

 

[Bioethics Interest Group

Meeting time: First Monday each month, except August, 3-5 p.m.

Meeting place: Natcher, Room D

Contact: Miriam Kelty

Phone: 496-9322

E-mail: <mk46u@nih.gov>]

 

[Bioinformatics Inter-institute Interest Group

Meeting date: Sept. 9 (first meeting)

Meeting time: 3:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 37, Room 6B25

Contact: John N. Weinstein, NCI

Phone: 496-9571

E-mail: <weinstein@dtpax2.ncifcrf.gov>]

 

Bioinstrumentation Interest Group

Meeting time: First Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 13, Room 3W54

Contact: Paul D. Smith, NCRR

Phone: 435-1945

E-mail: <pdsmith@helix.nih.gov>

 

Biophysics Interest Group

Meeting time: Irregular

Meeting place: Building 10, Bunim Room

Contact: Peter J. Basser

Phone: 435-1949

E-mail: <pb12q@nih.gov>

 

Biotechnology Interest Group

Meeting Time: Second Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting Place: Building 10, Room 11S235

Contact: Daniel M. Sullivan

Phone: 435-4570

E-mail: <dsul@helix.nih.gov>

 

Birth Defects and Teratology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Dorothea de Zafra

Phone: 593-6516

E-mail: <dd128a@nih.gov>

 

Breast Biology Interest Group

Meeting time: Fourth Monday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 13S235B

Contact: JoAnne Zujewski, NCI

E-mail: Zujewski@nih.gov

 

Calcium Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Tuesday each month, 3:00 PM

Meeting Place: Building 30, Room 117, or Building 49, Room 1A/B.

Contact 1: Arthur Sherman

E-mail: <asherman@nih.gov>

Phone: 496-4325

Contact 2: Indu Ambudkar

E-mail: <ambudkar@yoda.nidr.nih.gov>

Phone: 496-1478

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[Cancer Genetics Special Interest Group

Contact: Ruthann M. Giusti

Phone: 496-1611

E-mail: <giustir@epndce.nci.gov>]

 

[Carcinogenesis Interest Group

Contact: Umberto Saffiotti

E-mail: <saffiotu@dce41.nci.nih.gov>]

 

Cell and Molecular Neuroscience Interest Group

Umbrella group: Neurobiology

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Chip Gerfen, NIMH

Phone: 496-4341

E-mail:<gerfen@helix.nih.gov>

 

Cell Cycle Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Cell Biology

Meeting Time: First Wednesday each month, 12:30 p.m.

Meeting Place: Building 37, Room 6B23

Contact: Patrick M. O’Connor, NCI/DBS

Phone: 435-2848

E-mail: <oconnorp@dc37a.nci.nih.gov>

 

Chemistry Interest Group

Monthly lecture or symposium; meeting time and place vary

Contact 1: Ken Kirk, NIDDK

Phone: 496-2619

E-mail: <kennethk@bdg8.niddk.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Ken Jacobson, NIDDK

Phone: 496-9024

E-mail: <kajacobs@helix,nih.gov>

Contact 3: John Schwab, NIGMS

Phone: 594-5560

E-mail: <schwabj@gml.nigms.nih.gov>

 

Chromatin and Chromosomes Interest Group

Meeting time: Every other Thursday, 11:00 a.m.

Meeting place: Building 32T, Conference Room

Contact: David Clark

Phone: 496-6966

E-mail: <djclark@helix.nih.gov>

 

Clinical Pharmacology Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly (with FDA, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, University of Maryland)

Meeting place: FDA Building, Mod 1

Contact: William D. Figg, NCI

Phone: 402-3622

E-mail: <wdfigg@helix.nih.gov>

 

Cytokine Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: Howard Young, NCI

Phone: (301) 846-5700

Contact 2: electronic, Mark Doherty, NIAID

E-mail: <Mdoherty@Atlas.niaid.nih.gov>

 

Developmental Biology Interest Group

Umbrella group: Cell Biology

Meeting time and place: Varies (see NIH Calendar of Events)

Contact 1: Igor Dawid, NICHD

Phone: 496-4448

E-mail: <idawid@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Joram Piatigorsky, NEI

Phone: 496-9467

E-mail: <joram@helix.nih.gov>

 

DNA Repair Interest Group

Umbrella group: Molecular Biology

Meeting time: Third Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.

Meeting/Videoconference Locations: Natcher Building Room H; GRC (Baltimore) Room 1E03; FCRDC Building 549, Conference Room A; NIEHS (Research Triangle Park, NC) Building 101, Room B200

Contact 1: Kenneth Kraemer, NCI

Phone: 496-9033

E-mail: <kraemerk@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Vilhelm Bohr, NIA

Phone 410-558-8162

E-mail: <vbohr@nih.gov>

 

[Domestic Violence Research Interest Group

Contact: John Umhau

Phone: 496-7515

E-mail: <JohnU@LCS.NIAAA.nih.gov>]

 

Drosophila Interest Group

Umbrella group: Developmental Biology

Meeting time: Third Tuesday, 1:15–2:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 4B429

Contact: Sue Haynes, NICHD

Phone: 496-7879

E-mail: <sh4i@nih.gov>

 

Drug Discovery Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, on Thursdays, 3:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 37, Room 6B25

Contact: John Weinstein, NCI/DCT

Phone: 496-9571

E-mail: <weinstein@dtpax2.ncifcrf.gov>

 

Economics Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Meeting time and place: Irregular; announced by e-mail and in NIH Calendar of Events

Contact 1: James A. Schuttinga

Phone: 496-2229

E-mail: <schuttij@od1tm1.od.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Agnes Rupp

E-mail: <ar24f@nih.gov>

 

Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly

Meeting place: See Calendar of Events

Contact 1: Martina Vogel-Taylor, OD

Phone: 496-6614

E-mail: <MartinaV@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Bob Hoover, NCI, or Tricia Hartge, NCI

Phone: 496-8153

ListServ: subscribe to Epidem-L at listserv@list.nih.gov

 

Extracellular Matrix Interest Group

Meeting time and place: As announced

Contact 1: W. Stetler-Stevenson, NCI/DCBDC

Phone: 496-2687

E-mail:<stetler1@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Larry Wahl

E-mail: <wahl@yoda.nidr.nih.gov>

 

Fluorescence Interest Group

Meeting time: Fridays, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 5D21

Contact: Jay Knutson, NHLBI

Phone: 496-2557

E-mail: <jaysan@helix.nih.gov>

 

Gene Therapy Interest Group

Meeting time: Second and fourth Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: R. Michael Blaese, NCHGR

Phone: 496-5396

E-mail: <mblaese@nchgr.nih.gov>

 

Glia Club

Meeting time: Bimonthly on second Wednesday, 4:00–5:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B

Contact 1: Vittorio Gallo, NICHD

Phone: 402-4776

E-mail: <vgallo@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Joan Schwartz, NINDS

Phone: 496-4049

E-mail: <jps@helix.nih.gov>

 

Glycobiology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Diana Blithe, NICHD

Phone: 496-1661

E-mail: <blithed@hd01.nichd.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to GLYCO-L@LIST.NIH.GOV

 

Hard Tissue Disorders Interest Group

Umbrella group: Clinical Research

See: <http://128.231.106.172/hardtissue/htdigin.html>

Meeting time and place:Varies

Contact: Pamela Robey, NIDR

Phone: 496-4563

E-mail: <probey@yoda.nidr.nih.gov>

 

Head and Neck Biology Interest Group

Meeting time: 3:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building. 10, Room. 9C401

Contact: Frank G. Ondrey, NIDCD

Phone: 435-2072

E-mail: <fondrey@pop.nidcd.nih.gov>

 

 

Human Development Across the Lifespan Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Meeting time and place: Electronic

Contact: Kim Roberts

Phone: 496-0420

E-mail: <roberts@ssed.nichd.nih.gov>

 

Human Retrovirus Interest Group

Meeting time: Third Wednesday, noon

Meeting place: Natcher, Conference Room B

Contact: Fatah Kashanchi, NCI

Phone: 496-0987

E-mail: <kanshancf@dce41.nci.nih.gov>

 

Image Processing Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Bonnie Douglas, DCRT

Phone: 496-2847

E-mail: <douglasb@magic.dcrt.nih.gov>

 

Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group

Umbrella group: Neurobiology

Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting Place: Building 49, Conference Room

Contact: Robert Desimone

Phone: 496-5625

E-mail: <jcg@cu.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to JLS@LSR.NEI.NIH.GOV

 

Lambda Lunch (Bacterial and Phage Genetics)

Meeting time: Thursdays, 11:00 a.m.

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B13

Contact: Susan Gottesman, NCI/DCBDC

Phone: 496-3524

E-mail: <susang@helix.nih.gov>

Anonymous FTP site:FTP.CU.NIH.-GOV

directory "LAMBDA_LUNCH"

 

Lymphoma and Leukemia Interest Group

Meeting time: Third Thursday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, 13S235A/B

Contact 1: Larry W. Kwak

Phone: 301/846-1607

E-mail: <kwak@ncifcrf.gov>

Contact 2: Charles Zacharchuk

Phone: 496-4514

E-mail: <cmz@box-c.nih.gov>

ListServ: llig-l

 

Mass Spectrometry Interest Group

Umbrella group: Structural Biology

Meeting time: First and third Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 7C101

Contact: Lewis Pannell, NIDDK

Phone: 402-2196

E-mail: <Pannell@nih.gov>

 

[Mitochondria Interest Group (MIG)

Meeting time: First Monday of month; 3:00-4::00 p.m.

Meeting place: Varies

Contact: Dr. Steve Zullo

Phone: 435-3576

E-mail: <zullo@helix.nih.gov>]

 

Molecular Modeling Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Monthly; see

<http://cmm.info.nih.gov/MMIGnet/events>

Contact: Robert Pearlstein, DCRT

Phone: 402-3043

E-mail: <staff@cmm.dcrt.nih.gov>

 

Molecular Psychiatry Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies

Meeting place: Building 10, Medical Board. Room

Contact person: Julio Licinio

Phone: 496-6885

E-mail: <licinio@nih.gov>

 

Motility Interest Group

Meeting time: First Monday (except July and August), 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Bunim Room

Contact: Leepo Yu, NIAMS

Phone: 496-5415

E-mail: <lcyu@helix.nih.gov>

 

Mouse Club

Umbrella group: Developmental Biology

Meeting time: Once a month on Tuesday, 4:00–5:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 31, Room 2A-52

Contact: Heiner Westphal, NICHD

Phone: 402-0545

E-mail: <hw@helix.nih.gov>

 

Multisensory Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 15K, ground-floor conference room

Contact: Peter Grossenbacher

Phone: 496-7672

E-mail: <pc99s@nih.gov>

URL: <http://www.nih.gov/sigs/mig>

 

Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) Club

Meeting time: First Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. lecture and 3:30 discussion

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A59 (lecture) and Room 5A46 (discussion)

Contact: Gordon Guroff, NICHD

Phone: 496-4751

E-mail: <gordong@helix.nih.gov>

 

Nerve-Muscle Interest Group

Meeting time: Every other Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m.

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B07

Contact: Matt Daniels, NHLBI

Phone: 496-2898

E-mail: <mdaniels@codon.nih.gov>

 

Neuroimmune Interactions Interest Group

Meeting time: Once a month on Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 11S-235

Contact: Esther Sternberg, NIMH

Phone: 402-2773

E-mail: ems@codon.nih.gov

 

Pain Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Neuroscience

Meeting time: Second Monday, 3:00 p..m.

Meeting place: Building 49, Conference Room A

Contact: Maryann Ruda, NIDR

Phone: 402-4980

E-mail: <ruda@yoda.nidr.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to: PAINGROUP-L@LIST.NIH.GOV

 

PET Interest Group

Umbrella group: Neurobiology

Meeting time: Fridays, 2:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 1C520.

Contact: Peter Herscovitch, CC

Phone: 402-4297

E-mail: <peter@nmdhst.cc.nih.gov>

 

Pigment Cell Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Third Monday, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 49, Conference Room A

Contact: Vincent Hearing, NCI/DBS

Phone: 496-1564

E-mail: <hearingv@dc37a.nci.nih.gov>

 

Prostate Cancer Interest Group

Contact: W. Marston Linehan

Phone: 496-6353

 

Protein Folding Interest Group

Meeting time: Thursdays, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 12A, Room 3026

Contact: Joe Bryngelson, NCI/DCRT

Phone: 496-1135

E-mail: <jdb@helix.nih.gov>

 

Protein Trafficking Interest Group

Umbrella group: Cell Biology

Meeting time: Second Tuesday, 3:30

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9S-235 (Bunim Room)

Contact: Harris Bernstein, NIDDK

Phone: 402-4770

E-mail: <harris_bernstein@nih.gov>

 

Reactive Oxygen Species Interest Group

Meeting time: Second Friday (Sept.-May), 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place:Building 49, Conference Room A-B

Contact 1: Daniel Gilbert

E-mail: <dangil@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Chuang C. Chiueh

E-mail: <chiueh@helix.nih.gov>

 

RNA Club

Umbrella group: Molecular Biology

Meeting time: First Tuesday, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 41, Room C509

Contact 1: Carl Baker, NCI/DBS

Phone:496-2078

E-mail: <ccb@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Susan Haynes, NICHD

Phone: 496-7879

E-mail: <sh4i@nih.gov>

 

[Sensory Interest Group

Contact: Don Coling

E-mail: < dcoling@pop.nidcd.nih.gov>]

 

Signal Transduction Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Fridays, 4:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B07, and NIDCD off-campus, 5 Research Court

Contact 1: John Northup, NIMH

Phone: 496-9167

E-mail: <drjohn@codon.nih.gov

Contact 2: Jim Battey, NIDCD

Phone:402-2829

E-mail: <jbattey@pop.nidcd.nih.gov>

 

Social Structure & Demographic Issues in Health Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: Laura E. Montgomery, NCHS/CDC

Phone: 436-3650, ext 177

E-mail: <lem3@nch07a.em.cdc.gov>

Contact 2: Julie Reid, NHLBI

Phone: 435-0410

E-mail: <Julie_Reid@nih.gov>

 

Therapeutic Oligonucleotides Interest Group

Umbrella Group: Clinical Research

Meeting time: Last Thursday each month, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 30, Room 117

Contact : Yoon Cho-Chung, NCI

Phone: 496-4020

E-mail: <yc12b@nih.gov>

 

Transcription Factors Interest Group

Meeting time: First Thursday (except July-Sept.), 2:15 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 49, First-floor Conference Room

Contact 1: Stoney Simons, NIDDK

Phone: 496-6796

E-mail: <steroids@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: U. Siebenlist, NIAID

Phone 496-7662

E-mail: <us3n@nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to TFACTORS

 

Viral Hepatitis Interest Group

Meeting time: Third or second Monday, 3:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, 1C726

Contact: Jake Liang

E-mail: <jliang@nih.gov>

 

Virology Interest Group

Meeting time: Thursday (usually third or fourth), 3:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 4, Room 433

Contact: Peter Collins, NIAID

Phone: 496-4205

ListServ: <CBuckler@nih.gov>

 

Washington Area Yeast Club

Umbrella group: Molecular Biology

Meeting time: Second Wednesday, 5:15–7:15 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 4A-05

Contact 1: Reed Wickner, NIDDK

Phone: 496-3452

E-mail: <wickner@helix.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Alan Hinnebusch, NICHD

Phone: 496-4480

E-mail: <ah8j@nih.gov>

 

WorldWideWeb Interest Group

Meeting time: Second Tuesday each month, 2:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: Dale Graham, DCRT

Phone: 402-1805

E-mail: <degraham@helix.nih.gov>

 

Xenopus/Zebrafish Interest Group

Umbrella group: Developmental Biology

Meeting time: Last Friday each month (except summer), 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 429

Contact: Tom Sargent, NICHD

Phone: 496-0369

E-mail: <tsargent@nih.gov>

 

X-ray Crystallography Interest Group

Umbrella group: Structural Biology

Meeting time: Sporadic; announced by e-mail

Meeting place: Building 5, Room 231

Contact: James Hurley, NIDDK

Phone: 402-4703

E-mail: <hurley@tove.niddk.nih.gov>

 

To make additions or changes, contact The NIH Catalyst (fax: 402-4303; e-mail: <catalyst@nih.gov>.

 

 

 


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