Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2014 (July 20-24, 2014): Events

Events

Sunday, July 20, 2014

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

Pre meeting workshops Registration

8:00 AM-3:00 PM

SIMB Board of Directors Meeting

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Pre meeting workshop Modern Design and Analysis of Experiments

Pre meeting workshop Fermentation Basics

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Exhibitor Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Registration

11:00 AM-4:00 PM

Exhibitor Setup

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Opening Remarks: Leonard Katz, SynBERC, UC-Berkeley, SIMB President and Kristala Prather, MIT, 2014 Program Chair. Keynote Speech: Frances H Arnold, California Institute of Technology, "Design by evolution: Expanding the enzyme universe"

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

Opening Reception

Monday, July 21, 2014

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch Break-all registered attendees

Quarter Century Club Luncheon (by invitation only)

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2014 SIMB Industry Award Lecture Dr. Nigel Mouncey, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, IN "Driving discovery to development through industrial microbiology at Dow AgroSciences”
Convener(s): Nigel Mouncey

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

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6:15 AM-7:30 AM

Annual 5K Run Sponsored by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Meet in hotel lobby at 6:15 am Hold Harmless Waiver required

7:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch Break-all registered attendees

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Pre-Banquet Reception

7:00 PM-9:30 PM

SIMB Annual Banquet, Award Presentations and Banquet Speech: "What Can be Done About Antibiotic Resistance" by Dr. Julian Davies, University of British Columbia

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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7:30 AM-1:00 PM

Registration

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

SIMB Annual Business Meeting ALL SIMB MEMBERS SHOULD PLAN TO ATTEND Agenda: Presentation of the 2013 financial statement; Treasurer's report; Setting of 2014 dues; Installation of new officers

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Student Mentoring Luncheon - complimentary for students

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2015 Annual Meeting Planning Meeting

3:30 PM-9:30 PM

Outing to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery & Dinner Aboard the Becky Thatcher Riverboat

Thursday, July 24, 2014

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7:30 AM-1:00 PM

SIMB New Board of Directors Meeting

7:30 AM-3:30 PM

Registration

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Charles Thom Award Lecture 2014 Charles Thom Awardee Gregg Whited, DuPont "Challenges and successes in the development of sustainable commodity chemicals 1,3-propanediol and isoprene"