T H E   N I H   C A T A L Y S T    J U L Y  –  A U G U S T   2005

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: 301-402-1010; 301-402-1009

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: 301-496-7196

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: 301-496-8364

E-mail: <kastnerd@mail.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: Phil Murphy

Phone: 301-496-8616

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

Contact 2: Rachel Caspi

Phone: 301-435-4555

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

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

 

 

 

Molecular Biology/Biochemistry Interest Group

Meeting time and place: No regular meetings. IG heads meet yearly to consider WALS speaker nominations  

Contact: Carl Baker

Phone: 301-496-2078

E-mail: <ccb@nih.gov>

 

Neuroscience Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Check website

Contact 1: Kenton Swartz

Phone: 301-435-5652

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

Contact 2: Bruce Cumming

Phone: 402-8097

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

 

Structural Biology Interest Group

Meeting time and place (2005-06): Usually 3rd Thursday, 4:00 pm, Building 50; notices by e-mail and on the SBIG website

Contact 1: Susan Buchanan

Phone: 301-594-9222

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

Contact 2: Doug Sheeley

Phone: 301-480-3659

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

To register for e-mail announcements,

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

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: 301-451-6399

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

Contact 2: David C. Klein

Phone: 301-496-6915

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

 

Advanced Technologies Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Check the website

Contact: Steven Hausman

Phone: 301-402-1691

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

 

AIDS Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Fulvia Veronese

Phone: 301-496-3677

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

ListServ: subscribe to AIDSINTG-L

 

Animal Well-Being Interest Group

Meeting time: varies, approximately quarterly

Meeting place: Building 14G, large conference room; occasionally hosts speakers at Natcher

Contact: Jim Weed

Phone: 301-435-7257

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

 

Apoptosis Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 4:00 pm

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

Contact 1: Richard Youle

Phone: 301-496-6628

E-mail: youle@helix.nih.gov

Contact 2: Yves Pommier

Phone: 301-496-5944

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: 301-496-7859

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: 301-496-9322

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

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

 

Biomedical Computing Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st three Thursdays, 3:00 pm; 4th Thursday, 5:30 pm (evening socials on 5th Thursdays; dark Aug & Dec)

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2C116 (Medical Board Room)

Contact 1: Jim DeLeo

Phone: 301-496-3848

E-mail: <jdeleo@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Carl Leonard

Phone: 301-496-0191

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

ListServe: subscribe to BCIG-L

 

Biomedically Enabling Sciences and Technologies (BEST) Cluster

Meeting time and place: As needed, for the heads of its member IGs (Biomedical Computing IG, Advanced Technologies IG, Knowledge Management IG, Handheld Users Group, and Microarray Users Group)

Contact: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Phone: 451-6716

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

Web address: <http://www.nihbest.org>

 

Biophysics Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Holds seminars and conferences; does not meet regularly

Contact: Peter Basser

Phone: 301-435-1949

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: 301-435-7249

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: 301-443-4354

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: 301-496-1478

ListServ: Subscribe to CALCIUM-L

 

Cancer CAM Research Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Jeffrey White

Phone: 301-435-7980

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

 

Chemistry Interest Group

Meeting time: Periodic seminars

Meeting place: Varies

Contact 1: John Schwab

Phone: 301-594-3827

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

Contact 2: Kenneth Kirk

Phone: 301-496-2619

 

Chromatin and Chromosomes Interest Group

Meeting time: One Tuesday a month, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 41, Conf. Room

Contact: David Clark

Phone: 301-496-6966

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

 

Chronobiology Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Wednesday, almost monthly, 4:00—5:00 pm; check website

Meeting Place: Building 49, Rm 6A46, or USUHS Rm A2054

Contact: Steven Coon

Phone: 301-496-8293

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

 

Clinical Applications of Stem Cells Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced; see listing for Stem Cell Interest Group

Contact: Manfred Boehm

Phone: 301-435-7211

E-mail: <boehmm@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 Amphitheater

Contact: Donna L. Shields

Phone: 301-435-6618

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 2005; Extramural Program Directors' forum: last Friday every 3rd month, 3:00 pm, NSC Building, Conf. Room 2120, starts October 2005)

Contact: Emmeline Edwards

Phone: 301-496-9248

E-mail: <ee48r@nih.gov>

 

Cultural and Qualitative Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually second Thursday every other month (next meeting is September 15), 3 pm

Meeting place: As announced

Contact 1: Sabra Woolley

Phone: 301-435-4589

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

Contact 2: Simon Craddock Lee

Phone: 301-496-2794

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

 

Cytokine Interest Group

Meeting time: three to four symposia/year

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

Contact 1: Robert Seder

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

Phone: 301-594-8483

Contact 2: Tom Wynn

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

 

Dendritic Cell Interest Group

Meeting time and place: TBA

Contact: Uri Lopatin

Phone: 301-496-8490

E-mail: <uri@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Brian Kelsall

Phone: 301-496-7473

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

 

Diabetes Interest Group

Meeting time: ~ Every six weeks, usually Tuesday, usually 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett

Contact: Renee Rabben

Phone: 301-496-6289

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; Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Oregon Health and Science Univ, Portland, OR

Contact 1: Kenneth Kraemer

Phone: 301-496-9033

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: 301-496-7515

E-mail: <umhau@nih.gov>

 

Drosophila Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Tuesday, 1:15 pm

Meeting place: Building 6B, Room 4B429

Contact: Jim Kennison

Phone:301-496-8399

E-mail: <James_Kennison@nih.gov>

 

Drosophila Neurobiology Interest Group

Meeting time: Every other Friday, 12:00 noon (starting September 9)

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

Contact: Benjamin White

Phone: 301-435-5472

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: 301-496-9571

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

 

Economics Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: James A. Schuttinga

Phone: 301-496-2229

E-mail: <js41z@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Agnes Rupp

E-mail: <ar24f@nih.gov>

 

Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Thursday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 50, ground-floor conference room

Contact 1: Jeffrey Kopp

Phone: 301-594-3403

E-mail: <jeffreyk@building10.niddk.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Mike Bray

Phone: 301-451-5123

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

 

End of Life Research Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Thursday, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Natcher, room as available

Contact: Alexis Bakos

Phone: 301-594-2542

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

 

Endocrinology Interest Group **

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: George Chrousos

Phone: 301-496-5800

E-mail: <George_Chrousos@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Phil Gold

Phone: 301-496-1945

** Last year's listing-not verified or updated

 

Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Interest Group

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

Contact: Martina Vogel-Taylor

Phone: 301-496-6614

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: Michael Rogawski

Phone: 301-496-8013

E-mail: <epilepsySIG@nih.gov>

 

Epigenetics Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Thursday, monthly, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: EPN (6130 Executive Blvd.) Conference Room G

Contact: Mukesh Verma

Phone: 301-594-7344

E-mail: <Vermam@mail.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: 301-496-2557

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

Contact 2: Dan Sackett

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

 

Free Radical Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, in conjunction with the Oxygen Club of Greater Washington, D.C., 3rd Friday, 3:00 pm; annual regional symposium and banquet (to be held this year July 29; check the web site)

Meeting place: Radiation Biology Conference Room, Building 10, B2.5 level

Contact: Michael Graham Espey

Phone: 301-496-7511

E-mail: <SP@nih.gov>

 

Gene Therapy Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Thursday, 2:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium

Contact: Fabio Candotti

Phone: 301-435-2944

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: 301-496-9571

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

 

Glycobiology Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Diana Blithe

Phone: 301-435-6990.

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: 301-496-9168

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

 

Handheld Users Group (HUG)

Meeting time and place: check the website

Contact: Ben Hope

Phone: 301-594-6473

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: 301-496-4563

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

Contact 2: Michael Collins

Phone: 301-496-4913

 

Head and Neck Cancer Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact 1: Wendy Weinberg

Phone: 301-827-0709

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

Contact 2: Carter Van Waes

Phone: 301-402-4216

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

 

Health Services Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly (day, time, and place to be announced);

Contact 1: Emily DeVoto

Phone: 301-496-6615

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

Contact 2: Jack Stein

Phone: 301-443-4060

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, Hatfield 2-3750

Contact: Tawnya McKee

Phone: 301-846-1943

E-mail: <mckee@ncifcrf.gov>

Website: <http://ccr.cancer.gov/faculties/faculty.asp?facid=457>

 

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: 301-496-6610

Contact 2: Victoria Harden

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTS Assay Development Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies; check website

Contact 1: Ingrid Li

Phone: 301-443-1421

E-mail: <ili1@mail.nih.gov>

Contact 2: James Inglese

Phone: 301-496-7029

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

 

Image Processing Interest Group

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

Contact 1: Benes Trus

Phone: 301-496-2250

E-mail: <Benes_Trus@nih.gov>

Contact 2: Matt McAuliffe

Phone: 594-2432

 

Integrative Neural-Immune Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact: Socorro Vigil-Scott

Phone: 301-496-9255

E-mail: <sv53s@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>

 

Inter-Agency Image-Guided Interventions Group

Meeting time: Monthly, 4th Tuesday, 3:30 pm

Meeting Place: NIBIB, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, Suite 200, Room 223

Contact: Theresa Smith

Phone: 301-451-4784

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

 

In Vivo NMR Interest Group

Meeting time: Varies

Meeting place: Building 10, Room B1N256

Contact: Jeff Duyn

Phone: 301-594-7305

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

 

Knowledge Management Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

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: 2nd Thursday, noon

Meeting place: Building 40, Conference Room 1203

Contact: Dawn A. Walker

Phone: 301-402-7149

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: 301-496-3524

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

Contact 2: Robert Weisberg

E-mail: <rweisberg@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: James McNally

Phone: 301-402-0209

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

Contact 2: Christian Combs

Phone: 301-496-0014

 

Mass Spectrometry Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st & 3rd Thursday, 10:30 am (check website)

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 7S235

Contact: Jeff Kowalak

Phone: 301-496-4242

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

 

Membrane Microdomains Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 1:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9C209

Contact: Paul Roche

Phone: 301-594-2595

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: 301-402-5678

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

 

Mitochondria Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Monday, 3:00 pm (excluding federal holidays)

Meeting/BREEZE WEB-conference: Building 2 Conference Room or other NIH campus sites; recent nodes for group viewing include NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC; GRC, Baltimore; VA Hospital, Cleveland; Podell Auditorium, Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC; Baylor Univ.,Texas; Louisiana State University Health Science Center

Contact 1: Steve Zullo

Phone: 301-435-2810

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

Contact 2: Salvatore Alesci

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

Contact 3: Nadja Souza-Pinto

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

 

Molecular and Functional Optical Imaging Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Wednesday, 12:00 noon

Meeting place: Building 10, Room B3MB-38 (2.5 level, B-wing)

Contact: Amir Gandjbakhche

Phone: 301-435-9235

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

Contact 2: Abby Vogel

Phone: 301-402-0648

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

 

Molecular Modeling Interest Group

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

Meeting place: Building 12A, conf. rooms

Contact: Peter Steinbach

Phone: 301-496-1100

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

 

Motility Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact: Jim Sellers

Phone: 301-496-6887

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: 301-402-0545

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

 

Muscle Interest Group

Meeting time: Irregular

Meeting place: Building 40, Room 1203 or 1205

Contact: Andres Buonanno

Phone: 301-496-0170

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

 

Neural Cell Function Interest Group

Meeting time: 3rd Friday, 2:30 p.m.

Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A51A/B

Contact 1: Lee Eiden

Phone: 301-496-4110

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

Contact 2: Harold Gainer

Phone: 301-496-6719

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

 

 

Neuroinformatics Interest Group

Meeting time and place: To be announced

Contact 1: Michael Huerta

Phone: 301-443-3563

E-mail: <mhuert1@mail.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Barry Davis

Phone: 301-402-3464

E-mail: <barry_davis@nih.gov>

 

Pain Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 3:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 30, Room 117

Contact 1: Raymond Dionne

Phone: 301-496-0294

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 1-5674

Contact: Peter Herscovitch

Phone: 301-451-4248

E-mail: <herscovitch@nih.gov>

 

Phage-Tech Interest Group

Meeting time and place: Varies

Contact 1: Dean Scholl

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

Contact 2: Carl Merril

E-mail: merrilc@mail.nih.gov

 

Pigment Cell Research Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, usually 3rd Thursday, 12:30—2:00 pm; yearly day-long meeting most years; check the website

Meeting place: Bldg 49, Conf. Room 1A51

Contact 1: Marjan Huizing

Phone: 301-402-2797

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

Contact 2: Tom Hornyak

Phone: 301-451-1926

 

Polyunsaturated Lipid Function Interest Group

Meeting time: Usually 1st Wednesday, as announced (journal club; resuming in September), 1:30 pm

Meeting place: 5626 Fishers Lane, Conference Room 3N-25, Rockville, MD

Contact: Norman Salem

Phone: 301-443-2393

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

 

Prostate Cancer Interest Group

Meeting time: Monthly, Friday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Bldg. 10 CRC, Room 2-3750

Contact: Marston Linehan

Phone: 301-496-6353

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

 

Protein Trafficking Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 3:30 pm

Meeting place: Building 50, Room 2328

Contact 1: Manu Hegde

Phone: 301-496-4855

Email: <hegder@mail.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Peng Loh

Phone: 301-496-3239

 

Proteomics Interest Group

Meeting time: 1st Friday seminars

Meeting place: Building 50; check website; join listserv to receive seminar notices

Contact: Sanford Markey

Phone: 301-496-4022

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

 

RNA Club

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

Meeting place: Building 41, Room C509

Contact: Carl Baker

Phone: 301-496-2078

E-mail: <ccb@nih.gov>

 

Scientific Integrative Medicine Interest Group

Meeting time and place: TBA; lectures planned; website under construction

Contact 1: David Goldstein

Phone: 301-496-2103

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

Contact 2: Eleanor Hanna

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

 

Signal Transduction Interest Group

Meeting time: Alternate Wednesdays, 5:00 pm

Meeting place: 5 Research Court, Conf. Room

Contact 1: John Northup

Phone: 301-496-9167

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

Contact 2: James Battey

Phone: 301-402-0900

 

Stem Cell Interest Group

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

Contact 1: Nadya Lumelsky

Phone: 301-451-9834

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

Contact 2: Colin Stewart

Phone: 301-846-1755

E-mail: <stewartc@ncifcrf.gov>

Contact 3: Manfred Boehm

Phone: 301-435-7211

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

 

Stroke Branch Interest Group/Seminar Clinical Stroke Rounds (year-round)

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 8:30 am

Meeting place: Suburban Hospital or Washington Hospital Center

Stroke Branch Seminars (September through May

Meeting time: Thursdays 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Suburban Hospital Auditorium

Contact 1: John Kylan Lynch

Phone: 301-496-1187

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

Contact 2: Zurab Nadareishvili

Phone: 301-496-6231

 

Synaptic and Developmental Plasticity Interest Group

Meeting time: Tuesday or Wednesday, every other month, 11:00 am

Meeting place: Building 35, Room 1BB1000

Contact: Bai Lu

Phone: 301-435-2970

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

 

Systems Biology Interest Group

Meeting time: Quarterly seminars; less formerly, most first Thursdays, 1:00 p.m.

Meeting place: Natcher, Room 2AS10

Contact 1: David Balshaw

Phone: 919-541-2448

E-mail: <balshaw@niehs.nih.gov>

Contact 2: Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Phone: 301-496-5046

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: Robert Baughman

Phone: 301-496-1779

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

Contact 2: Brian Stanton

Phone: 301-435-4074

E-mail: <bs66d@nih.gov>

 

Therapeutic Oligonucleotides Interest Group

Meeting time: Last Thursday, 4:00 pm

Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2C116 (Medical Board Room)

Contact: Yoon Cho-Chung

Phone: 301-496-4020

E-mail: <cyc12b@nih.gov>

 

Tobacco and Nicotine Research Interest Group

Meeting time: 4th Wednesday, every other month, 2:00 pm (next meeting is July 27)

Meeting place: 6001Executive Blvd., Room 3103

Contact: Ruth Stadius

Phone: 240-632-5620

E-mail: <stadiusr@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: 301-496-6796

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

Contact 2: Uli Siebenlist

Phone 301-496-8917

ListServ: subscribe to TFACTORS

 

Tumor Angiogenesis & Invasion Working Group

Meeting time and place: Posted at website

Contact 1: William Figg

Phone: 301-402-3622

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

Contact 2: Steven Libutti

Phone: 301-496-5049

 

Viral Hepatitis Interest Group

Meeting time: 2nd Monday, 4:15 pm

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

Contact 1: Edward Doo

Phone: 301-451-4524

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

Contact 2: Barbara Rehermann

Phone: 301-402-7144

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

 

Virology Interest Group

Meeting time: 4th Tuesday, 12:00 noon; minisymposium in November

Meeting place: Building 4, Room 433

Contact 1: Alison McBride

Phone: 301-496-1370

E-mail: <amcbride@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, generally in December, February, and May

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

Contact: Robert Tycko

Phone: 301-402-8272

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: 301-496-3452

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

Contact 2: Alan Hinnebusch

Phone: 301-496-4480

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, but usually in Building 1, Wilson Hall; see website (<www4.od.nih.gov/orwh>) for upcoming lectures

Contact: Vicki Malick

Phone: 301-496-7989

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

 

X-ray Diffraction Interest Group

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

Contact: Fred Dyda

Phone: 301-402-4496

E-mail: <fred.dyda@nih.gov>

 

Zebrafish/Xenopus Interest Group

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

space is limited

Contact: Tom Sargent

Phone: 301-496-0369

E-mail: sargentt@mail.nih.gov

 

IGs on the Horizon

Flow Cytometry Interest Group

Contact 1: Rajeev Agarwal

Phone: 301-435-4573

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

Contact 2: William Telford

E-mail: <wt40b@nih.gov>

 

Mood and Anxiety Disorders Interest Group

Contact: Holly Giesen

Phone: 301-435-8982

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

This group will meet regularly September through early May in conjunction with a Distinguished Lecturers series, typically held on Tuesdays at noon in one of the larger auditoriums on campus. Other lectures featuring intramural speakers are held in the Building 15K conference room. Discussion and meeting follow.

 

R Users Group

Contact: Terry Cox

Phone: 301-496-1331

E-mail: TAC@NEI.NIH.GOV

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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