Events

Sunday, August 2, 2015

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7:30 AM-8:30 AM


Pre-Meeting Workshop Registration

8:00 AM-3:00 PM


SIMB Board of Directors Meeting

8:30 AM-4:00 PM


Pre-Meeting Workshop: Practical Applications in Microbial Fermentation from Selection and Development of Cell Lines for Biopharma to Detailed Yield Determination for Industrial Products

9:00 AM-4:00 PM


Exhibitor Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Registration

11:00 AM-4:00 PM


Exhibitor Setup

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Rapid Fire Science Slam

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


General Session: Opening Remarks and Keynote Address: "Digitizing the chemical world of microbes" Pieter Dorrestein, University of California, San Diego

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


Opening Reception/Exhibits Open

Monday, August 3, 2015

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM


Registration

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch Break, All registered attendees/Exhibits open

Quarter Century Club Luncheon

4:30 PM-5:30 PM


2015 SIMB Industry Award Lecture: Daria Hazuda, Merck & Co. "Merck Infectious Disease Research: Past, Present and Future"

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Reception/Exhibits Open

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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6:15 AM-7:30 AM


Annual 5K Run - Meet in Hotel Lobby. Waiver Form Required.

7:30 AM-6:00 PM


Registration

11:00 AM-5:00 PM


JIMB Senior Editors' Luncheon and Meeting

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch Break, All registered attendees/Exhibits open

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Pre-Banquet Reception/Exhibits Open

7:00 PM-9:30 PM


SIMB Annual Banquet, Award Presentations, and Banquet Address 2015 Banquet Talk: Douglas Eveleigh, Rutgers University (emeritus) "Fermentative rumblings of Benjamin Franklin – “Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls and sloth” (Poor Richard)

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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7:30 AM-1:00 PM


Registration

11:45 AM-12:45 PM


SIMB Annual Business Meeting: President's Report, Treasurer's Report, 2016 dues, New Society officers installed

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Student Mentoring Luncheon-no charge; reservations required

1:30 PM-2:30 PM


2016 Program Planning Meeting; 2016 Program Chair Debbie Yaver, Novozymes

3:30 PM-7:30 PM


Afternoon Outing: Philadelphia Then and Now Highlights Tour, private visit to Chemical Heritage Museum, Networking dinner at 2nd Story Brewing Company (waiver form required) Buses Load in hotel lobby promptly at 3:15 pm

Thursday, August 6, 2015

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7:30 AM-1:00 PM


SIMB New Board of Directors Meeting

7:30 AM-3:30 PM


Registration

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch on your own

1:00 PM-2:00 PM


Charles Thom Award Lecture: Richard Baltz, CognoGen Biotechnology Consulting “The life and times of an industrial microbial geneticist: engineering actinomycetes and other subjects”