T H E   N I H   C A T A L Y S T    J U L Y  –  A U G U S T   2004

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: Not specified

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 CC Grand Rounds once every other month

Contact: Cliff Lane

Phone: 496-7196

E-mail: <clane@nih.gov>

Genetics Interest Group **

Meeting time and place: Two all-day symposia a year to be announced

Contact: Dan Kastner

Phone: 496-8364

E-mail: <tf60y@nih.gov>

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 1: Jennifer Cannons

Phone: 435-1907

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

Contact 2: Margaret Mentink Kane

Phone: 594-2345

E-mail: <mmentink@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 WALS speaker nominations

Meeting place: By e-mail

Contact: Carl Baker

Phone: 496-2078

E-mail: <ccb@nih.gov>

 

Neuroscience Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Check website

Contact 1: Chip Gerfen

Phone: 496-4341

E-mail: <gerfenc@intra.nimh.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Bruce Cumming

Phone: 42-8097

E-mail: <bcg@lsr.nimh.nih.gov>

 

Structural Biology Interest Group

Meeting time and place (2004-05): Usually 3rd Thursday, 4:00 pm, Building 50; notices by e-mail and on the SBIG website

Contact 1: Susan Buchanan

Phone: 594-9222

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

Contact 2: Sanford Markey

Phone: 496-4022

E-mail: <s.markey@nih.gov>

To register for e-mail announcements,

join SBIG at <www.nih.gov/sigs/sbig>

 

** Last year’s listing–not verified or updated.

Other Interest Groups

14-3-3 Proteins Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually the third Wednesday, 4:00—5:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 40, First-floor Conference Room

Contact 1: Surajit Ganguly

Phone: 496-8423

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

Contact 2: David C. Klein

Phone: 496-6915

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

 

Advanced Technologies Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Check the website

Contact: Steven Hausman

Phone: 402-1691

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

 

AIDS Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Fulvia Veronese

Phone: 496-3677

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

ListServ: subscribe to AIDSINTG-L

 

Apoptosis Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1 50/59 AB

Contact 1: Richard Youle

Phone: 496-6628

E-mail: youle@helix.nih.gov

Contact 2: Yves Pommier

Phone: 496-5944

E-mail: <yp4x@nih.gov>

 

Behavioral and Social Sciences Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies; mainly sponsors lecture series

Meeting place: See NIH Calendar of Events

Contact: Ronald Abeles

Phone: 496-7859

E-mail: <abeles@nih.gov>

 

Bioethics Interest Group

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

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

Contact: Miriam Kelty

Phone: 496-9322

E-mail: <mk46u@nih.gov>

Sign up at <http://BIOETHICSinterestgroup@list.nih.gov/>

 

Biomedical Computing Interest Group

Meeting time: Third Thursday, 3:00 pm Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2C116 (Medical Board Room)

Contact 1: Jim DeLeo

Phone: 496-3848

E-mail: <jdeleo@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Susan Harris

Phone: 435-8721

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

ListServe: subscribe to BCIG-L; website: <http://www.nih-bcig.org>

 

Biophysics Interest Group

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

Contact: Peter Basser

Phone: 435-1949

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

 

Biosciences Business Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, 12:00—1:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 37, 4th Floor Conference Room (4041/4107)

Contact 1: Val Bliskovsky

Phone: 435-7249

E-mail: <bliskovv@pop.nci.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Gil Ben-Menachem

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

 

Calcium Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Not regularly scheduled at this time

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: Periodic 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: One Tuesday a month, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 41, Conf. Room

Contact: David Clark

Phone: 496-6966

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

 

Chronobiology Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Wednesday, monthly, 4:00—5:00 pm

Meeting Place: Building 36, Room 1B13, or USUHS Rm A2054

Contact: Steven Coon

Phone: 496-8293

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

 

Clinical Applications of Stem Cells Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced; contact <cmoyers@nhlbi.nih.gov>to be added to the Listserv

Contact: Cynthia Dunbar

Phone: 496-1434

E-mail: <dunbarc@nhlbi.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— approx. 7:45 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: NSC Building, Conference Room A (starts September 2003; Extramural Program Directors' forum: last Friday every 3rd month, 3:00 pm, NSC Building, Conf. Room 2120, starts October 2003)

Contact: Emmeline Edwards

Phone: 496-9964

E-mail: <ee48r@nih.gov>

 

Cultural and Qualitative Research Interest Group **

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday of February, April, June, September, November, 9:30 am

Meeting place: As announced

Contact 1: Sabra Woolley

Phone: 435-4589

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

Contact 2: Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts

Phone: 594-6655

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

 

Cytokine Interest Group

Meeting time: three to four symposia/year

Meeting place: Varies; one symposium/year at NCI-Frederick

Contact 1: Calman Prussin

Phone: 496-1306

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

Contact 2: Robert Seder

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

 

Dendritic Cell Interest Group

Meeting time and place: TBA

Contact: Uri Lopatin

Phone: 496-7473

E-mail: <uri@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Brian Kelsall

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

 

Diabetes Interest Group

Meeting time: Once a month, days and times to be announced

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: Renee Rabben

Phone: 496-6289

E-mail: <ReneeR@intra.niddk.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Derek LeRoith

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

 

DNA Repair Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Tuesday, 12:30 pm

Meeting/Videoconference: Natcher, Room J; GRC (Baltimore), Room 1E03; FCRDC, Building 549, Conf. Rm. A; NIEHS (Research Triangle Park, NC) Building 101, Room B200; SUNY, Stony Brook; Univ. of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX; Univ. of Texas, Galveston; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington; Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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: 301-295-9791

E-mail: <shaynes@usuhs.mil>

Contact 2: Jim Kennison

E-mail: <James_Kennison.nih.gov>

 

Drosophila Neurobiology Interest Group

Meeting time: Every other Friday, 12:00 noon (starting September 10)

Meeting place: Porter Neuroscience Research Center (Building 35), Room BB-1000

Contact: Benjamin White

Phone:435-5472

E-mail: <WhiteB@intra.nimh.nih.gov>

 

Drug Discovery Interest Group **

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

Meeting place: Building 37, 6th-floor conference room

Contact: John N. 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

 

End of Life Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Typically Thursdays, 3:00 pm, on an as-needed basis

Meeting place: Natcher, room as available

Contact: Alexis Bakos

Phone: 594-2542

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

 

Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Interest Group

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

Contact: Martina Vogel-Taylor

Phone: 496-6614

E-mail: <martinav@nih.gov>

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

 

Epilepsy Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Seminars and annual Data Blitz session announced by e-mail and on website

Contact: Mike Rogawski

Phone: 496-8013

E-mail: <epilepsySIG@nih.gov>

 

Fluorescence Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually even Fridays, 4:00 pm; see website; join to receive upcoming events e-mail

Meeting place: Building 10, usually Room 5N264

Contact: Jay Knutson

Phone: 496-2557

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

Contact 2: Dan Sackett

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

 

Gene Therapy Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Thursday, 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: Fabio Candotti

Phone: 435-2944

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

Contact 2:Robert Kotin

E-mail: <kotinr@nhlbi.nih.gov>

 

Genomics and Bioinformatics Interest Group

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

Meeting place: Building 37, 6th-floor conference room

Contact: John N. 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 Ctr.

Contact: R. Victor Rebois

Phone: 496-2007

E-mail: <reboisv@nidcd.nih.gov>

 

Handheld Users Group (HUG) **

Meeting time: Every third Monday, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, NIH Library training room

Contact: Ben Hope

Phone: 594-6473

E-mail: <tallguy@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@dir.nidcr.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

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

 

Health Services Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly (day, time, and place to be announced); the group will have its second meeting in early September (time and place TBA)

Contact 1: Emily DeVoto

Phone: 496-6615

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

Contact 2: Jack Stein

Phone: 443-4060

E-mail: <js413y@nih.gov>

 

HIF (Hypoxia Inducible Factor) Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Thursday, 11:30 am—1:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, room varies

Contact : Tawnya McKee

Phone: 301-846-1943

E-mail: <mckee@ncifcrf.gov>

 

History of Biomedical Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Second Tuesday, 1:00 pm

Meeting place: Varies; check web site

Contact 1: Office of NIH History

Phone: 496-6610

Contact 2: Victoria Harden

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

 

Image Processing Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Distributed by e-mail and on <image.nih.gov>

Contact 1: Benes Trus

Phone: 496-2250

E-mail: <Benes_Trus@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Matt McAuliffe

Phone: 594-2432

 

Imaging Ligand Development Consortium

Meeting time and place: To be announced (every 3 months; steering committee meetings will be held every 2 months in the Neuroscience Center)

Contact: Jamie Driscoll

Phone: 443-5288

E-mail: <jdrisco1@mail.nih.gov>

 

Integrative Neural-Immune Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact: Socorro Vigil-Scott

Phone: 496-9255

E-mail: <vigilscs@intra.nimh.nih.gov>

 

 

 

Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00 pm

Meeting Place: Building 49, Room 1A51

Contact: Bruce Cumming

E-mail: <bgc@lsr.nei.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>

 

Knowledge Management Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Quarterly; other details to come; check the website (which is in the process of being updated)

Contact 1: Geoffrey Marsh

Phone: 301-594-9683

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

Contact 2: Paul Beatty

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

 

Lab Managers Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, noon

Meeting place: Varies

Contact: Dawn A. Walker

Phone: 402-7149

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

 

Lambda Lunch (Bacterial and Phage Genetics)

Meeting time: Each Thursday, 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 37, Room 6107/6041

Contact: Susan Gottesman

Phone: 496-3524

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

Contact 2: Robert Weisberg

E-mail: <rweisberg@nih.gov

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Light Microscopy Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, Tuesday, noon

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 4B51

Contact: James McNally

Phone: 402-0209

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

Contact 2: Christian Combs

Phone: 496-0014

 

Mass Spectrometry Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st & 3rd Thursday, 10:30 am

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 7C101

Contact: Jeff Kowalak

Phone: 496-4242

E-mail: <jkowalak@intra.nimh.nih.gov>

 

Membrane Microdomains Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 1:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9C209

Contact: Paul Roche

Phone: 594-2595

E-mail: <rochep@pop.nci.nih.gov>

 

Membrane Protein Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually one Wednesday a month, 1:00 pm; check website: <http://www.nih.gov/sigs/mpig>

Meeting place: Building 5, Room 127

Contact: Reinhard Grisshammer

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

 

Microarray Users Group

Meeting time and place: Usually first Wednesday; Journal Club meets weekly or bimonthly, as the group decides

Meeting place: Varies

Contact: Katherine Peterson

Phone: 402-5678

E-mail: <petersonk@nei.nih.gov>

 

Mitochondria Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 3:00 pm

Meeting/Videoconference: Natcher, Room H; NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC; GRC, Baltimore; NIST, Admin. Bldg, Room B113, Gaithersburg, MD; VA Hospital, Cleveland; Podell Auditorium, Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC; Baylor Univ.,Texas; Louisiana State University Health Science Center

Contact: Steve Zullo

Phone: 435-2810

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

Contact 2: Salvatore Alesci

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

 

Molecular Modeling Interest Group

Meeting time: See <http://mmignet.nih.gov>

Meeting place: Building 12A, conf. rooms

Contact: Peter Steinbach

Phone: 496-1100

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

 

Motility Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Jim Sellers

Phone: 496-6887

E-mail: <sellersj@nhlbi.nih.gov>

 

Mouse Club

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 6A, Room 4A05

Contact: Heiner Westphal

Phone: 402-0545

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

 

Muscle Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, noon

Meeting place: Building 40, Room 1203 or 1205

Contact: Andres Buonanno

Phone: 496-0170

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

 

Neurobiology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: TBA

Contact: Chip Gerfen

Phone: 496-4341

E-mail: <gerfenc@intra.nimh.nih.gov>

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

 

Neuroinformatics Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact 1: Stephen Koslow

Phone: 443-1815

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

Contact 2: Barry Davis

Phone: 402-3464

E-mail: <barry_davis@nih.gov>

 

Pain Interest Group

Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00

Meeting place: Building 30, Room 117

Contact 1: Raymond Dionne

Phone: 496-0294

E-mail: <rdionne@dir.nidcr.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Michael Iadarola

E-mail: <miadarola@dir.nidcr.nih.gov>

 

PET Interest Group

Meeting time: Friday, 2:00 pm; see website for seminar listing

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 1C520

Contact: Peter Herscovitch

Phone: 451-4248

E-mail: <herscovitch@nih.gov>

 

Phage-Tech Interest Group **

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: Dean Scholl

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

Contact 2: Carl Merril

Phone: 435-3583

 

Pigment Cell Research Interest Group **

Meeting time: One Tuesday every other month, lunch meeting 12:00—1:30 pm; once a year a daylong meeting

Meeting place: Building 40, Room 1201-1203

Contact 1: Bill Pavan

Phone: 496-7584

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

Contact 2: Marjan Huizing

Phone: 402-2797

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

 

Polyunsaturated Lipid Function Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually 1st Wednesday of each month, as announced (journal club; resuming in September), 1:00 pm

Meeting place: Flow Bldg. Conference Room, Rockville, 12501 Washington Ave.

Contact: Norman Salem

Phone: 443-2393

E-mail: <nsalem@niaaa.nih.gov>

 

Prostate Cancer Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, Tuesday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2S235

Contact: Sildiz Ali

Phone: 496-6353

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

 

Protein Trafficking Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 50, Room 2328

Contact 1: Harris Bernstein

Phone: 402-4770

E-mail: <harris_bernstein@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Peng Loh

Phone: 496-3239

 

Proteomics Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly 1st Friday seminars

Meeting place: Building 50; check website: <http://proteome.nih.gov>

Contact: Donita Garland

Phone: 496-6999

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

 

Reactive Oxygen Species Interest Group *

Meeting time and place: Monthly seminars with Oxygen Club of the Greater Washington Area (info via NIH Calendar, members’ e-mail, and <Jayasree.Nath@NA.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL>)

Contact 1: Mike Chiueh

Phone: 496-3421

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

Contact 2: Mike Espey

Phone: 496-7511

 

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@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Susan Haynes

E-mail: <shaynes@usuhs.mil>

 

Signal Transduction Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Wednesdays, 5:00 pm

Meeting place: 5 Research Court, Conference Room

Contact 1: John Northup

Phone: 496-9167

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

Contact 2: James Battey

Phone: 402-0900

 

Stem Cell Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Monthly seminars to rotate through Baltimore, Bethesda, and Frederick campuses; check website

Contact 1: Minoru Ko

Phone: 1-410-558-8359

E-mail: <kom@grc.nia.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Nadya Lumelsky

Phone: 301-451-9834

E-mail: <nadyal@intra.niddk.nih.gov>

Contact 3: Colin Stewart

Phone: 301-846-1755

E-mail: <stewartc@ncifcrf.gov>

 

Stroke Branch Interest Group/Seminar

Clinical Stroke Rounds (year-round)

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 8:30 am

Meeting place: Suburban Hospital

Stroke Branch Seminars (September through May

Meeting time: Thursdays 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 36, Conf. Room 1B13

Contact 1: John Kylan Lynch

Phone: 496-1187/1714

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

Contact 2: Zurab Nadareishvili

Phone: 496-6231

 

Synaptic and Developmental Plasticity Interest Group

Meeting time: Wednesday, once a month, 12:00 noon

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A50

Contact: Bai Lu

Phone: 435-2970

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

 

Systems Biology Interest Group **

Meeting time: Every second Thursday, 3:00—4:30 pm (starting September 11, 2003)

Meeting place: Natcher, Room 2AS10

Contact 1: Victor Pollara

Phone: 402-1620

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

Contact 2: Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Phone: 496-5046

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

 

Technology Transfer Interest Group

Meeting time: First Tuesday each month, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: 6011 Executive Blvd., suite 325

Contact 1: J.P. Kim

Phone: 435-5377

E-mail: <kimj@od6100m1.od.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Robert Baughman

Phone: 496-1779

E-mail: baughmar@ninds.nih.gov

 

Therapeutic Oligonucleotides Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Thursday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2C116

Contact: Yoon Cho-Chung

Phone: 496-4020

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

 

Tobacco and Nicotine Research Interest Group **

Meeting time: Bimonthly (date and time vary)

Meeting place: Executive Plaza North

Contact: Matthew Fritts

Phone: 594-6637

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

 

Transcription Factor Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Thursday (except July-Sept.), 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 50, ground-floor Conference Room (Room 1227)

Contact 1: Stoney Simons

Phone: 496-6796

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

Contact 2: Uli Siebenlist

Phone 496-8917

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: 2nd Monday, 4:00 pm

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

Contact 1:Ed Doo

Phone: 301-451-4524

E-mail: <dooe@niddk.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Barbara Rehermann

Phone: 301-402-7144

 

Virology Interest Group

Meeting time: 4th Tuesday, 12:15 p.m.; minisymposium in November

Meeting place: Building 29B, Room A/B

Contact 1: Alison McBride

Phone: 496-1370

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

Contact 2: Carolyn Wilson

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

ListServ: Contact <CBuckler@nih.gov>

 

Washington Area NMR Interest Group

Meeting time: Three times a year, gerehermannnerally in December, February, and May

Meeting place: Building 5, Room 127, or the Cloister (Building 60) Lecture Hall

Contact: Robert Tycko

Phone: 402-8272

E-mail: <robertt@niddk.nih.gov>

 

Washington Area Yeast Club

Meeting time: 2nd Wednesday, 4:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 6A, 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 Health Special Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Usually one Friday a month, 11:30 am—12:30 pm

Meeting place: Varies; see website for upcoming lectures

Contact: Vicki Malick

Phone: 301-496-7989

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

 

WorldWideWeb Interest Group

This group is still seeking someone to take on the administrative activities to keep the group going smoothly. Interested?

Contact: Dale Graham

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

 

X-ray Crystallography Interest Group

Meeting time and place: See biweekly newsletter: <http://mcl1.ncifcrf.gov/nihxray/

Contact: Fred Dyda

Phone: 402-4496

E-mail: <dyda@ulti.niddk.nih.gov>

 

Zebrafish/Xenopus Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Monthly, rotating through participating labs;

space is limited

Contact: Tom Sargent

Phone: 496-0369

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

** Last year’s listing–not verified or updated.

 

IGs on the Horizon

R Users Group

Contact: Terry Cox

Phone: 496-6583

E-mail: <TAC@NEI.NIH.GOV>

According to Terry Cox, who is organizing a mailing list and meetings, R is a free, open source system for statistical analysis and graphics (see <http://www.r-project.org/>).

Among the packages that have been written for R is Bioconductor, an open source set of software for bioinformatics.

 

Biomedical Enabling Sciences and Technologies (BEST) Cluster

Contact: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Phone: 451-6716

E-mail: <alubaydl@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>

Not an official IG umbrella, BEST is a coordinated cluster of IGs that thus far includes the Biomedical Computing IG, the Advanced Technologies SIG, the Knowledge Management IG, the Handheld Users Group, and the Microarray Users Group.

Scientific Integrative Medicine Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact 1: David Goldstein

Phone: 496-2103

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

Contact 2: Eleanor Hanna

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

The general goal of this new group is to foster patient-oriented clinical research that leads to the prevention or presymptomatic treatment of multisystem disorders. The group will sponsor seminars led by members and invited speakers, grand rounds within institutes and the NIH Clinical Center, and lectures for the broader NIH community.

 

Considering starting a new Interest Group? Contact Celia Hooper by e-mail or by fax: 301-402-4303.

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

 

 


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