The NIH Catalyst July-August, 2007

T H E N I H C A T A L Y S T J U L Y – A U G U S T 2007

Annual Update: Inter-Institute Interest Group Directory

Although not all the sites are up to date, nearly all the Interest Groups have websites that can be accessed through http://www.nih.gov/sigs/sigs.html.
Note: ** below indicates last year's listing, not verified or updated
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 (seminar): Each Wednesday (except summer), 4:15 p.m.
Meeting place (seminar): Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium
Contact 1: Ron Germain
Phone: 301-496-1904
E-mail: rgermain@niaid.nih.gov
Contact 2: Brian Kelsall
Phone: 301-496-7473
E-mail: bkelsall@niaid.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: 301-435-1240
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 (2006-07): Usually 3rd Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Building 50, first floor conference room; notices by e-mail and on the SBIG website
Contact 1: Anna Panchenko
Phone: 301-435-5891
E-mail: panch@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Contact 2: Doug Sheeley
Phone: 301-594-9762
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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 40, First-floor Conference Room
Contact 1: David C. Klein
Phone: 301-496-6915
E-mail: kleind@mail.nih.gov
Contact 2: Surajit Ganguly
Phone: 301-451-6399
E-mail: gangulys@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: TBA
Contact: Leonid Margolis
Phone: 301-594-2476
E-mail: margolis@helix.nih.gov
ListServ: subscribe to AIDSINTG-L
Animal Well-Being Interest Group
Meeting time: quarterly
Meeting place: Building 14G, large conference room; occasionally hosts speakers on campus
Contact: Jim Weed
Phone: 301-435-7257
E-mail: weedj@mail.nih.gov
Apoptosis Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st Monday, 4:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Bldg 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; 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 3rd Monday following holidays; usually does not meet during summer), 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Natcher, Room D, or Building 31, conference room; check yellow sheet or web site
Contact: Miriam Kelty
Phone: 301-229-5639; 301-496-9322
E-mail: keltym@mail.nih.gov
Biomedical Computing Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st three Thursdays, 3:00 p.m.; 4th Thursday, 5:30 p.m. (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
E-mail: cleonard@cc.nih.gov
ListServe: subscribe to BCIG-L
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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 37, 4th Floor Conference Room (4041/4107)
Contact 1: Val Bliskovsky
Phone: 301-435-7249
E-mail: bliskovv@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
E-mail: iambudkar@dir.nidcr.nih.gov
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 p.m.
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 p.m.; check website
Meeting Place: Building 49, Rm 6A46, or USUHS Rm A2054
Contact: Steven Coon
Phone: 301-451-6622
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 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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett Amphitheater
Contact 1: Juan Lertora
Phone: 301-496-9425
E-mail: lertoraj@mail.cc.nih.gov
Contact 2: Donna L. Shields
E-mail: dshields@mail.cc.nih.gov
Cognitive Neuroscience Consortium
Meeting time: Every two months, last Wednesday, 4:15 p.m.
Meeting place: NSC Building, Room 2172 (starts September 2007; Extramural Program Directors' forum: last Friday every 3rd month, 3:00 p.m., NSC Building, Conf. Room 2120, starts October 2007)
Contact: Emmeline Edwards
Phone: 301-496-9248
E-mail: ee48r@nih.gov
Critical Illness and Injury Interest Group
Meeting time and place: Varies (the next formal
Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Symposium on the Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury, Nov. 14-15, Natcher; for details, see http://www.strategic results.com/fg5
Contact 1: Anthony Suffredini
Phone: 301-402-3485
E-mail: asuffredini@cc.nih.gov
Contact 2: Scott Somers
E-mail: somerss@nigms.nih.gov
Cytokine Interest Group
Meeting time: three to four symposia/year
Meeting place: Varies; one symposium/year at NCI-Frederick
Contact 1: Daniela Verthelyi
Phone: 301-827-1702
E-mail: daniela.verthelyi@fda.hhs.gov
Contact 2: Thomas Wynn
E-mail: twynn@niaid.nih.gov
Data Resources Sharing Interest Group
Meeting time: 4th Wednesday, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Meeting place: Rockledge 1 (6705 Rockledge Dr.), Room 5147
Contact 1: J.P. Kim
Phone: 301-435-0679
E-mail: jpkim@nih.gov
Contact 2: Marilyn Miller
Phone: 301-496-9350
E-mail: millerm@nia.nih.gov
** Dendritic Cell Interest Group
Meeting time and place: TBA
Contact 1: Uri Lopatin
Phone: 301-496-8490
E-mail: ulopatin@niaid.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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 10, Lipsett
Contact 1: Eric Liu
Phone: 301-451-9809
E-mail: ericliu@imil.nih.gov
Contact 2: Derek LeRoith
E-mail: derek@helix.nih.gov
DNA Repair Interest Group
Meeting time: 3rd Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.
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; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y.; Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington; Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penn.; Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Oregon Health and Science Univ, Portland; Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, N.C.
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 p.m.
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 (check website for schedule)
Meeting place: Porter Neuroscience Research Center (Bldg 35), Room BB-1000
Contact: Chi-hon Lee
Phone: 301-435-1940
E-mail: leechih@mail.nih.gov
Drug Discovery Interest Group
Meeting time: Usually one Thursday a month, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 37, 6th-floor conference room (Rm. 6041)
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, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 50, ground-floor conference room
Contact 1: Jeffrey Kopp
Phone: 301-594-3403
E-mail: jeffreyk@intra.niddk.nih.gov
Contact 2: Mike Bray
Phone: 301-451-5123
E-mail: mbray@niaid.nih.gov
End of Life Interest Group
Meeting time: 3rd Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: NINR Conference Room, 6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 710
Contact: Alexis Bakos
Phone: 301-594-2542
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: 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 at website
Contact: William Theodore
Phone: 301-496-1505
E-mail: theodorw@ninds.nih.gov
Epigenetics Interest Group
Meeting time: Last Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: EPN (6130 Executive Blvd.) Conference Room G
Contact: Mukesh Verma
Phone: 301-594-7344
E-mail: Vermam@mail.nih.gov
Flow Cytometry Interest Group
Meeting time: 2-3 times/year
Meeting place: Usually Building 10, Lipsett
Contact 1: William Telford
Phone: 301-435-6379
E-mail: telfordw@mail.nih.gov
Contact 2: James Simone
E-mail: simonej@mail.nih.gov
Fluorescence Interest Group
Meeting time: Usually even Fridays, 4:00 p.m.; 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., Friday, 3:00 p.m.; annual regional symposium and banquet (20th Anniversary Symposia and Banquet to be held this year July 27; check website)
Meeting place: Radiation Biology Conference Room, Building 10, B2.5 level
Contact: Michael Graham Espey
Phone: 301-496-7511
E-mail: SP@nih.gov
Genomics and Bioinformatics Interest Group
Meeting time: Usually one Thursday a month, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 37, 6th-floor conference room (Rm. 6041)
Contact: John N. Weinstein
Phone: 301-496-9571
E-mail: weinstein@dtpax2.ncifcrf.gov
Glycobiology Interest Group
Meeting time and place: Varies
Contact 1: Maria Manzoni
Phone: 301-846-1776
E-mail: mm1070o@nih.gov
Contact 2: 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: 301-435-1689
Head and Neck Cancer Interest Group
Meeting time and place: To be announced
Contact 1: Wendy Weinberg
Phone: 301-827-0709
E-mail: wendy.weinberg@fda.hhs.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: Jack Stein
Phone: 301-443-4060
E-mail: js413y@nih.gov
HIF (Hypoxia Inducible Factor) Interest Group
Meeting time: Quarterly
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 p.m.
Meeting place: Varies; check web site
Contact 1: Office of NIH History
Phone: 301-496-6610
Contact 2: Buhm Soon Park
E-mail: parkb@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: 301-402-7676
E-mail: Benes_Trus@nih.gov
Contact 2: Matt McAuliffe
Phone: 594-2432
Infectious Disease Imaging Interest Group
Meeting time: Tuesday or Thursday, 3:00 p.m. (check website)
Meeting place: Building 50, ground-floor Conference Room
Contact: Mike Bray
Phone: 301-451-5123
E-mail: mbray@niaid.nih.gov
Integrative Neural-Immune Interest Group
Meeting time and place: To be announced
Contact: Socorro Vigil-Scott
Phone: 301-496-9255
E-mail: vigilscs@mail.nih.gov
Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group
Meeting time: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Building 49, Room 1A51
Contact: Bruce Cumming
E-mail: bgc@lsr.nei.nih.gov
Inter-Agency Image-Guided Interventions Group
Meeting time: TBA
Meeting Place: NIBIB, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, Suite 200, Room 223
Contact: John Haller
Phone: 301-451-4780
E-mail: hallerj@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: Announced prior to each
Meeting
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
ListServ home page: https://list.nih.gov/archives/locl.html
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
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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 a.m. (check website)
Meeting place: Building 10, Room 7S235
Contact: Dawn Maynard
Phone: 301-402-6622
E-mail: maynardd@mail.nih.gov
Membrane Microdomains Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.
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 Tuesday a month, 1:00 p.m.; check website: http:// www.nih.gov/sigs/mpig
Meeting place: Porter Neuroscience Building 35, Room BB1000
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 p.m. (excluding federal holidays)
Meeting/BREEZE WEB-conference: Building 2 Conference Room or other NIH campus sites; 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 and place: Varies
Contact: Amir Gandjbakhche
Phone: 301-435-9235
E-mail: amir@helix.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
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Interest Group
Meeting time: Tuesday, noon, 12-18 times a year
Meeting place: Varies (once speakers are set, the schedule is sent to members and interested persons; all sponsored lectures are listed on the NIH Calendar of Events)
Contact: Holly Giesen
Phone: 301-435-8982
E-mail: giesenh@mail.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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 6A, Room 4A05
Contact: Heiner Westphal
Phone: 301-402-0545
E-mail: hw@mail.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@mail.nih.gov
Nanotech/Nanomedicine Interest Group
Meeting time and place: TBA
Contact 1: Kuan Wang
Phone: 301-496-4097
E-mail: wangk@mail.nih.gov
Contact 2: Jeffrey Forbes
E-mail: forbesj@mail.nih.gov
Neurodevelopmental Disorders Interest Group
Meeting time: 2nd Thursday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 10, Room 2-3330
Contact: Teresa Huggins
Phone: 301-435-3781
E-mail: TeresaHuggins@mail.nih.gov
Pain Interest Group
Meeting time: 2nd Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 49, Room 1A51
Contact: Michael Iadarola
Phone: 301-496-2758
E-mail: miadarola@dir.nidcr.nih.gov
PET Interest Group
Meeting time: Friday, 2:00 p.m.; 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 Rotem Edgar
Phone: 301-451-8820
E-mail: edgarr@mail.nih.gov
Pharmacogenetics Interest Group
Meeting time: Last Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Rockledge 2
Contact: Pothur Srinivas
Phone: 301-435-0550
E-mail: srinivap@mail.nih.gov
Pigment Cell Research Interest Group
Meeting time: Usually 3rd Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m.; 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 (resuming in September), 1:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 5626 Fishers Lane, Conference Room 3N-25, Rockville, MD
Contact 1: Norman Salem
Phone: 301-443-2393
E-mail: nsalem@niaaa.nih.gov
Contact 2: John Paul SanGiovanni
E-mail: jpsangio@nei.nih.gov
** Prostate Cancer Interest Group
Meeting time: Monthly, Friday, 4:00 p.m.
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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 50, Room 2328
Contact 1: Manu Hegde
Phone: 301-496-4855
E-mail: 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 July), 4:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 31, Room 2A48
Contact: Rich Maraia
Phone: 301-402-3567
E-mail: maraiar@mail.nih.gov
** Signal Transduction Interest Group
Meeting time: Alternate Wednesdays, 5:00 p.m.
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@nidcr.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 Neurovascular Case Conferences (year- round)
Meeting time and place: Wednesdays, either 8:30 a.m. at Suburban Hospital or 8:00 a.m. at Washington Hospital Center Stroke Branch Seminars (September through May)
Meeting time: Thursdays 4:00 p.m.
Meeting place: Suburban Hospital Auditorium
Contact 1: Jose Merino
Phone: 301-435-9321
E-mail: merinoj@ninds.nih.gov
Contact 2: John Kylan Lynch
Phone: 301-451-7968
E-mail: LynchJ@ninds.nih.gov
** Synaptic and Developmental Plasticity Interest Group
Meeting time: Tuesday, every other month, 11:00 a.m.
Meeting place: Building 35, Room BB1000
Contact: Bai Lu
Phone: 301-435-2970
E-mail: bailu@mail.nih.gov
Systems Biology Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st Thursday, 2:00 p.m., monthly seminars
Meeting place: Berliner Room, Building 10, Room 7S235
Contact 1: Eric Billings
Phone: 301-496-6520
E-mail: billinge@nhlbi.nih.gov
Contact 2: David Balshaw
Phone: 919-541-2448
E-mail: balshaw@niehs.nih.gov
** Tobacco and Nicotine Research Interest Group
Meeting time: 4th Wednesday, every other month, 2:00 p.m.
Meeting place: 6701 Rockledge Dr., Rooms 8115/8119, Rockledge 2 Building
Contact: Geraldine Anderson
Phone: 301-589-4020
E-mail: andersong@mail.nih.gov
Transcription Factor Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st Thursday (except July-Sept.), 2:00 p.m.
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 Sieben
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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 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 10, Room 9S235 (Bunim Room)
Contact: Barbara Rehermann
Phone: 301-402-7144
E-mail: barbarar@intra.niddk.nih.gov
Virology Interest Group
Meeting time: 1st Thursday, 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: carolyn.wilson@fda.hhs.gov
ListServ: br>Contact 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: Daron Freedberg
Phone: 301-496-0837
E-mail: daron_freedberg@nih.gov
Washington Area Yeast Club
Meeting time: 2nd Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 6A, Room 4A05
Contact: Henry Levin
Phone: 301-402-4281
E-mail: levinh@mail.nih.gov
Women's Health Special Interest Group
Meeting time: One Friday every other month, September through June, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Meeting place: Building 1, Wilson Hall; upcoming meetings/seminars posted at website and announced through WHSIG list e-mails and NIH staff list e-mails
Contact: Vicki Malick
Phone: 301-496-7989
E-mail: malickv@mail.nih.gov
X-ray Diffraction Interest Group
Meeting time and place: See biweekly newsletter at 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

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Pediatric Neuroimaging Group
Contact: Lisa Freund
Phone: 301-435-6879
E-mail: freundl@mail.nih.gov
Mucosal Immunology Interest Group
Contact 1: Yasmine Belkaid
E-mail: ybelkaid@mail.nih.gov
Contact 2: Brian Kelsall
E-mail: bkelsall@mail.nih.gov
Contact 3: Warren Strober
E-mail: wstrober@mail.nih.gov
Peter Basser is planning on starting an NIH Inventors' Interest Group, "open to anyone who has ever submitted an Employee Invention Report (EIR) or aspires to."
Phone: 301-435-1949
E-mail: pjbasser@helix.nih.gov

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