Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2014 (July 20-24, 2014)
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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
Presentation File files available
Session PS1: Poster Session 1/Exhibits Open
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe | Co-Convener(s): Stephanie Gleason

Monday, July 21, 2014

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM


Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


Session 1: Chemo-enzymatic Approaches to Biocatalysis
Convener(s): Steven G. Van Lanen and Patrick C. Cirino

Session 2: Metabolic Engineering of Catabolic Pathways
Convener(s): Michael Lynch and Lori Giver

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 3: Geobiotechnology and Green Mining - Sponsored by BRAIN AG
Convener(s): Michael Schloemann

Session 4: Genome Mining for Natural Products
Convener(s): Brian O. Bachmann

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch Break-all registered attendees

Quarter Century Club Luncheon (by invitation only)

1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Session 5: Cell Culture: Discovery to Commercialization
Convener(s): Tiffany D. Rau and Bruno Figueroa

Session 6: Metabolic Engineering for Renewable Chemical Production
Convener(s): David R. Nielsen and Andreas Schirmer

Session 7: Novel Enzyme Mechanisms in Biosynthesis
Convener(s): Wenjun Zhang

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

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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

5:30 PM-8:30 PM

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Session PS2: Poster Session 2/Exhibits Open
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe | Co-Convener(s): Stephanie Gleason

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 8: Applications of Protein Engineering in Metabolic Engineering
Convener(s): Ajikumar Parayil and Patrick C. Cirino
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Session 9: Microbial Ecology of Industrially and Economically Important Environments, Including Extreme Environments
Convener(s): Federico Lauro
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Session 10: Plant-Microbe Interactions Sponsored by Monsanto
Convener(s): Paul L. Skatrud | Co-Convener(s): Gary Stacey

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 11: Fermentation of Gaseous Feedstocks
Convener(s): Matthew L. Lipscomb and Hasan K. Atiyeh
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Session 12: Novel Tools for Natural Product Discovery
Convener(s): Huimin Zhao

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch Break-all registered attendees

1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Session 13: Enzymes for Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosics Sponsored by Novozymes
Convener(s): Michael Resch and Debbie S. Yaver
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Session 14: Strain Selection for Successful Fermentation Scale-Up
Convener(s): Kirsten R. Benjamin and Amoolya Singh
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Session 15: Metabolic Engineering of Phototrophic Microbes
Convener(s): Shota Atsumi and Himadri Pakrasi
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Session 16: Plant Biotechnology Sponsored by Dow AgroSciences LLC
Convener(s): Steven L. Evans and Toni Kutchan

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

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Session 17: Student Contributed Oral Session
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe | Co-Convener(s): Stephanie Gleason

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

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Session 18: Impact of Diversity on Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
Convener(s): S.T. Bagley | Co-Convener(s): Raul J. Cano

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


Session 19: Historical Perspectives on Metabolic Engineering
Convener(s): Hal Alper , Brian F. Pfleger and Stephen Van Dien

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 20: Industrially Relevant Enzymes
Convener(s): Rajesh K. Sani and Bhupinder Singh Chadha
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Session 21: Natural Products from Eukaryotes (Fungi and Plants)
Convener(s): Jeffrey Kim

Session 22: Regulatory Issues in Biotech (roundtable format, 90-minutes)
Convener(s): Carsten Hjort

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 23: Fermentation Considerations for Strain Design
Convener(s): Chandresh D. Thakker and Katy C. Kao
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Session 24: Functional Metagenomics
Convener(s): Mark R. Liles

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

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Session 25: The Future of Natural Products in Drug Discovery
Convener(s): Sheo Singh

Session 26: Synthetic Biology: Computerization of Biodesign
Convener(s): J. Christopher Anderson

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"

2:00 PM-5:30 PM


Session 27: Applications of Systems and Synthetic Biology to Metabolic Engineering
Convener(s): Howard Salis and Reshma Shetty
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Session 28: Bioremediation
Convener(s): Judy D. Wall and Esta van Heerden
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Session 29: Continuous and Integrated Bioprocessing
Convener(s): Clementina Delamonacco and Maitreya J. Dunham
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Session 30: Applications of Protein Engineering in Biocatalysis
Convener(s): Gregg T. Beckham | Co-Convener(s): Patrick C. Cirino