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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: Once every four months

Meeting place: Building 32, Library

Contact: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Phone: 402-1010; 402-1009

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

Listserv: subscribe to CELBIO-L

 

Clinical Research Interest Group

Meeting time and place: sponsors Clinical Center Grand Rounds
once every other month

Contact: Cliff Lane

Phone: 496-7196

E-mail: <clane@nih.gov>

Genetics Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually 2nd Tuesday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 49, Conference Room A and B

Contact 1: Heinz Arnheiter

Phone: 496-1645

E-mail: <ha3p@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Beverly Mock

Phone: 496-2360

Listserv: subscribe to GIG-L@list.NIH.GOV

Immunology Interest Group

Meeting time: Each Wednesday (except summer), 4:15 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: William Paul

Phone: 496-5046

E-mail: <wpaul@niaid.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to IMMUNI-L by joining the interest group at its web site

 

Molecular Biology/Biochemistry Interest Group

Meeting time: Yearly to consider speakers

Meeting place: Building 8, Room 122

Contact: Reed Wickner

Phone: 496-3452

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

 

Neuroscience Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Fridays, 4:30 pm

Meeting place: Cloisters, Rathskeller

Contact 1: Chip Gerfen

Phone: 496-4341

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

Contact 2: Betsy Murray

Phone: 496-5625, X-227

E-mail: <eam@ln.nimh.nih.gov>

 

Structural Biology Interest Group

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

Contact 1: Adrian Parsegian

Phone: 496-6561

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

Contact 2: Marius Clore

Phone: 496-0782

To register for e-mail announcements:

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

Other Interest Groups

 

 

AIDS Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Fulvia Veronese

Phone: 496-3677

E-mail: <veronesef@od.nih.gov>

ListServ: subscribe to AIDSINTG-L

 

Apoptosis Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 30, Conference Room 117

Contact 1: Colin Duckett

Phone: 594-1127

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

Contact 2: Yves Pommier

Phone: 496-5944

E-mail: <yp4x@nih.gov>

 

Behavioral and Social Sciences Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies, in the fall and spring

Meeting place: See NIH Calendar of Events

Contact 1: Jaylan Turkkan

Phone: 443-1263

E-mail: <jaylan@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Ronald Abeles

Phone: 496-7859

 

BSSR Methodology and Measurement Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st or 2nd Tuesday, 8:30 am

Meeting place: Building 45, Room 3AS10

Contact: Jared Jobe

Phone: 496-3137

E-mail: <Jared_Jobe@nih.gov>

 

Bioethics Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday (except 2nd Monday, September; usually does not meet during summer), 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Natcher, Room D, or Building 31, conference room 7; check yellow sheet or web site

Contact: Miriam Kelty

Phone: 496-9322

E-mail: <mk46u@nih.gov>

 

Biophysics Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies (often Building 10, Bunim Room)

Contact: Peter Basser

Phone: 435-1949

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

 

Birth Defects and Teratology Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly seminars

Meeting place: Videoconference between Bethesda and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Contact Megan Adamson

Phone: 443-4354

E-mail: <madamson@willco.niaaa.nih.gov>

 

Breast Cancer Think Tank

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: JoAnne Zujewski

Phone: 402-0985

E-mail: <zujewski@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Patricia Steeg

Phone: 496-9753

 

Calcium Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually Tuesday, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A50

Contact 1: Arthur Sherman

Phone: 496-4325

E-mail: <asherman@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Indu Ambudkar

Phone: 496-1478

ListServ: Subscribe to CALCIUM-L

 

Cancer CAM Research Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Jeffrey White

Phone: 435-7980

E-mail: <jeffreyw@mail.nih.gov>

 

Chemistry Interest Group

Meeting time: (Almost) Monthly seminars

Meeting place: Varies

Contact 1: John Schwab

Phone: 594-5560

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

Contact 2: Kenneth Kirk

Phone: 496-2619

 

Chromatin and Chromosomes Interest Group

Meeting time: Every other Thursday (except summer), 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 32T, Conf. Room

Contact: David Clark

Phone: 496-6966

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

 

Clinical Immunology Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, last Wednesday, noon

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9S235

Contact: Oral Alpan

Phone: 402-3447

E-mail: <oalpan@nih.gov>

 

Clinical Pharmacology Interest Group

Meeting time: 2–3 times a year in conjunction with special lectures in the NIH Principles of Clinical Pharmacology course, 6:30–7:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett

Contact: Donna Shields

Phone: 435-6618

E-mail: <dshields@mail.cc.nih.gov>

 

Cognitive Neuroscience Consortium

Meeting time: Every two months, last Wednesday, 4:15 pm

Meeting place: Building 31, Room 6C10 (starts 8/30/00; extramural program directors' forum: last Friday every 3rd month, 4:15 pm, NSC Building, Conf. Rm. 2120, starts 7/28/00

Contact: Emmeline Edwards

Phone: 496-9964

E-mail: <ee48r@nih.gov>

Cornea Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 8:30 am

Meeting place: Building 6, Room 409

Contact 1: Joram Piatigorsky

Phone: 496-9467

E-mail: <joramp@intra.nei.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Janine Davis

E-mail: <davisj@intra.nei.nih.gov>

 

Cultural and Qualitative Research Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Wednesday, 9:00 am

Meeting place: Neuroscience Center, Rooms B1/B2

Contact 1: Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts

Phone: 443-0639

E-mail: <sheurtin@willco.niaaa.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Wendy Smith

Phone: 443-8771

 

Cytokine Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly symposia

Meeting place: Varies

Contact 1: Rachel Caspi

Phone: 435-4555

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

Contact 2: Howard Young

Phone: 1-301-846-5700

E-mail: <younghi@mail.ncifcrf.gov>

 

Developmental Biology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: Tom Sargent

Phone: 496-0369

E-mail: <tsargent@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Peggy Zelenka

Phone: 496-7490

E-mail: <zelenkap@intra.nei.nih.gov>

 

DNA Repair Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Tuesday, 12:30 pm

Meeting/Videoconference: Natcher, Room H; GRC (Baltimore), Room 1E03; FCRDC, Building 549, Conf. Rm. A; NIEHS (Research Triangle Park, NC), Building 101, Room B200; SUNY, Stony Brook; University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX; Lawrence Livermore (CA) National Laboratory; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Kentucky, Lexington

Contact 1: Kenneth Kraemer

Phone: 496-9033

E-mail: <kraemerk@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Vilhelm Bohr

E-mail: <vbohr@nih.gov>

 

Domestic Violence Research Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact: John Umhau

Phone: 496-7515

E-mail: <umhau@nih.gov>

 

Drosophila Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Tuesday, 1:15 pm

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 4B429

Contact 1: Sue Haynes

Phone: 295-9791

E-mail: <shaynes@usuhs.mil>

Contact 2: Jim Kennison

E-mail: <kennisoj@exchange.nih.gov>

 

Drug Discovery Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually one Thursday a month, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 37, Room 5A21

Contact: John Weinstein

Phone: 496-9571

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

 

Economics Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: James A. Schuttinga

Phone: 496-2229

E-mail: <js41z@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Agnes Rupp

E-mail: <ar24f@nih.gov>

 

Endocrinology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: George Chrousos

Phone: 496-5800

E-mail: <George_Chrousos@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Phil Gold

Phone: 496-1945

 

Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies (subscribe to ListServ for notices)

Contact 1: Martina Vogel-Taylor

Phone: 496-6614

E-mail: <martinav@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Bill Harlan

Phone: 496-1508

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

 

Epilepsy Interest Group

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 5S235

Contact: Timothy Dunn

Phone: 402-2978

E-mail: <dunnt@ninds.nih.gov>

 

Fluorescence Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd and 4th Friday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, usually Room 5N264

Contact 1: Jay Knutson

Phone: 496-2557

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

Contact 2: Dan Sackett

Phone: 594-0358

E-mail: <sackettd@mail.nih.gov

 

Gene Therapy Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd and 4th Thursday, 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact 1: Richard Morgan

Phone: 402-1833

E-mail: <rmorgan@nhgri.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Fabio Candotti

Phone: 402-1833

 

Genomics and Bioinformatics Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually one Thursday a month, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 37, Room 5A21

Contact: John Weinstein

Phone: 496-9571

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

 

Glycobiology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Diana Blithe

Phone: 435-6990

E-mail: <blithed@nih.gov>

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

 

GTP Binding Proteins Interest Group

Meeting time: Irregular

Meeting place: FAES Social & Academic Center

Contact: R. Victor Rebois

Phone: 496-2007

E-mail: <rebois@box-r.nih.gov>

 

Hard Tissue Disorders Interest Group

Meeting time: Day varies, 9:30 am

Meeting place: Building 30, Room 117

Contact: Pamela Robey

Phone: 496-4563

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

Contact 2: Michael Collins

Phone: 496-4913

 

Head and Neck Cancer Interest Group

Meeting time: To be announced

Meeting place: Building 30, Room 117

Contact 1: Adrian Senderowicz

Phone: 594-5270

E-mail: <adrian.senderowicz@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Wendy Weinberg

Phone: 301-827-0709

E-mail: <weinberg@cber.fda.gov>

 

History of Biomedical Research Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Varies; check web site

Contact 1: NIH History Office

Phone: 496-6610

Contact 2: Victoria Harden

E-mail: <hardenv@od31tml.od.nih.gov>

 

Human Development Across the Lifespan Interest Group

Meeting time and place: By e-mail alert

Contact: Kim Roberts

Phone: 496-0420

E-mail: <kim_roberts@nih.gov>

 

Image Processing Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Thursday, 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 10, Room B1N256

Contact 1: Benes Trus

Phone: 496-2250

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

Contact 2: Matt McAuliffe

Phone: 594-2432

Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00 pm

Meeting Place: Building 49, Room 1A51

Contact: Betsy Murray

Phone: 496-5625, X-227

E-mail: <eam@ln.nimh.nih.gov>

 

In Vivo NMR Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies

Meeting place: Building 10, Room B1N256

Contact: Jeff Duyn

Phone: 594-7305

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

 

Java Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Thursday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 12B, second floor Conference Room

Contact: Jai Evans

Phone: 594-2900

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

 

Knowledge Management Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be determined

Contact: Geoffrey Marsh

Phone: 594-2423, ext. 213

E-mail: <geoff@mail.nih.gov>

 

Lambda Lunch (Bacterial and Phage Genetics)

Meeting time: Each Thursday, 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B13

Contact: Susan Gottesman

Phone: 496-3524

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

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

directory "LAMBDA_LUNCH"

 

Light Microscopy Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, Tuesday, noon

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 4B51

Contact 1: James McNally

Phone: 402-0209

E-mail: <mcnally@exchange.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Tilmann Brotz

Phone: 435-6402

 

Lymphoma and Leukemia Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 12S235a

Contact: Michael Bishop

Phone: 435-2764

E-mail: <mbishop@mail.nih.gov>

ListServ: LLig-1

 

Mass Spectrometry Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st and 3rd Thursday, 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 7C101

Contact: Lewis Pannell

Phone: 402-2196

E-mail: <L_Pannell@nih.gov>

 

Microarray Users Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Katherine Peterson

Phone: 496-3059

E-mail: <katherine_peterson@nih.gov>

 

Microtubule Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9S235 (Bunim Room)

Contact: Dan Sackett

Phone: 594-0358

E-mail: <sackettd@mail.nih.gov>

 

Mitochondria Interest Group

Meeting time:1st Monday, 3:00 pm

Meeting/Videoconference: Natcher, Room H; NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC; GRC, Baltimore; University of California at Davis; University of Maryland, Baltimore

Contact: Steve Zullo

Phone: 435-3576

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

 

Molecular Modeling Interest Group

Meeting time: See <http://mignet.nih.gov/MMIG>

Meeting place: Building 12A, conf. rooms

Contact: Peter Steinbach

Phone: 496-1100

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

 

Motility Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 4:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 10, Bunim Room (9S235)

Contact: Jim Sellers

Phone: 496-6887

 

Mouse Club

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 31, Room 2A52, or Building 6A, Room 405

Contact: Heiner Westphal

Phone: 402-0545

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

 

Mycobacterial Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Mondays, 10:30 am

Meeting place: Building 29, Room 121, or Twinbrook II, 2nd-floor conference room

Contact 1: Clifton Barry

Phone: 435-7509

E-mail: <clifton_barry@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Mike Brennan

Phone: 496-9559

 

Nerve-Muscle Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Wednesdays, 9:00 am

Meeting place: Building 36, Room 1B07

Contact 1: Matt Daniels

Phone: 496-2898

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

Contact 2: Zuhang Sheng

Phone: 435-4596

 

Neural-Immune Interactions Interest Group

Meeting time: One Tuesday a month (except July and August), 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 11S235

Contact: Craig C. Smith

Phone: 496-4561

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

 

Neurobiology Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Fridays, 4:30 pm

Meeting place: Cloisters, Rathskeller

Contact: Chip Gerfen

Phone: 496-4341

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

ListServ: <http://intra.ninds.nih.gov/nig>

 

Neuroinformatics Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, noon

Meeting place: Building 49, Conference Room 1A/B.

Contact 1: Rochelle Small

Phone: 402-3464

E-mail: <rochelle_small@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Yuan Liu

Phone: 496-3108

 

PET Interest Group

Meeting time: Each Friday, 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 1C520.

Contact: Peter Herscovitch

Phone: 402-4297

E-mail: <herscovitch@nih.gov>

 

Phage-Tech Interest Group

Meeting time and place: varies

Contact 1: Steve Zullo

Phone: 435-3576

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

Contact 2: Carl Merril

Phone: 435-3583

 

Pigment Cell Research Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Monday, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 49, first-floor Conf. Room

Contact 1: Bill Pavan

Phone: 496-7584

E-mail: <bpavan@nhgri.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Vincent Hearing

Phone: 496-1564

 

Protein Trafficking Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9S235

Contact 1: Harris Bernstein

Phone: 402-4770

E-mail: <harris_bernstein@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Peng Loh

Phone: 496-3239

 

RNA Club

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday (except August), 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 41, Room C509

Contact 1: Carl Baker

Phone: 496-2078

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

Contact 2: Susan Haynes

Phone: 301-295-9791

E-mail: <shaynes@usuhs.mil>

 

Science Writing Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact 1: Edward McSweegan

Phone: 402-8370

E-mail <emcsweegan@niaid.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Alisa Machalek

Phone: 496-7301

 

Signal Transduction Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Fridays, 4:30 pm

Meeting place: 5 Research Court, Room 2A08

Contact 1: John Northup

Phone: 496-9167

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

Contact 2: James Battey

Phone: 402-0900

 

Synaptic and Developmental Plasticity Interest Group

Meeting time: Wednesday, noon

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A50

Contact 1: Serena Dudek

Phone: 402-4795

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

Contact 2: Bai Lu

Phone: 435-2970

 

Therapeutic Oligonucleotides Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Thursday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2C16

Contact : Yoon Cho-Chung

Phone: 496-4020

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

 

Transcription Factors Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Thursday (except July-Sept.), 1:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 49, Conf. Rm. B

Contact 1: Stoney Simons

Phone: 496-6796

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

Contact 2: Uli Siebenlist

Phone 496-7662

Listserv: subscribe to TFACTORS

 

Tumor Angiogenesis & Invasion Working Group

Meeting time and place: Posted at web site

Contact 1: William Figg

Phone: 402-3622

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

Contact 2: Steven Libutti

Phone 496-5049

 

Viral Hepatitis Interest Group

Meeting time: One Monday a month, 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, 9S235 (Bunim)

Contact: T. Jake Liang

Phone: 496-1721

E-mail: <jliang@nih.gov>

 

Virology Interest Group

Meeting time: Mini-symposia 1–2 times/year

Meeting place: To be announced

Contact 1: Klaus Strebel

Phone:496-3132

E-mail: <kstrebel@nih.gov>

Contact 2:John Patton

E-mail: <jpatton@niaid.nih.gov>

ListServ: Contact <CBuckler@nih.gov>

 

Washington Area Yeast Club

Meeting time: 2nd Wednesday, 5:15 pm

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 4A05

Contact 1: Reed Wickner

Phone: 496-3452

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

Contact 2: Alan Hinnebusch

Phone: 496-4480

E-mail: <ahinnebusch@nih.gov>

 

Women's Reproductive Health Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Every four months at times decided by the group

Contact: Phyllis Leppert

Phone: 496-6515

E-mail: <LeppertP@nih.gov>

 

WorldWideWeb Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 2:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact 1: Sandy Desautels

Phone: 402-6553

E-mail: <sandy_desautels@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Dale Graham

Phone: 402-1805

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

 

Xenopus/Zebrafish Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Monday (except summer), 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 429

Contact 1: Brant Weinstein

Phone: 435-5760

E-mail: <bw96w@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Ajay Chitnis

E-mail: <chitnisa@mail.nih.gov>

 

X-ray Crystallography Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly, announced by e-mail, 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 5, Room 127

Contaxt: Xinhua Ji

Phone: (301) 846-5035

E-mail: <jix@ncifcrf.gov>

Addenda

Considering starting a new Interest Group? Contact Celia Hooper (fax: 301-402-4303; e-mail:

<hooperc@nih.gov>.

Need to correct your group’s listing? Contact CIT’s web publishing group:

<publish@cit.nih.gov>.

 

 

 


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