2015 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition
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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

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

Presentation File files available
Session PS1: Poster Session 1
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe , Stephanie Gleason and Sonya Clarkson

Monday, August 3, 2015

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM


Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Presentation File files available
Session 1: Biocatalysis: Enzymes for Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosics
Convener(s): Aaron T. Wright
Presentation File files available
Session 2: Fermentation/Cell Culture: Industrial Biotechnology Products to Biopharmaceuticals
Convener(s): Tiffany D. Rau and Daniel K.Y. Solaiman

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


Session 3: Metabolic Engineering: Data and Model-Driven Approaches to Metabolic Engineering
Convener(s): Priti Pharkya

Session 4: Natural Products: Unlocking Native Expression of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Convener(s): Eung-Soo Kim

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


Lunch Break, All registered attendees/Exhibits open

Quarter Century Club Luncheon

1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Session 5: Fermentation/Cell Culture: Fermentation of Non-conventional Feedstocks
Convener(s): Chandresh Thakker | Co-Convener(s): Matthew Lipscomb

Session 6: Metabolic Engineering: Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals and Fuels Production I
Convener(s): Andreas Schirmer | Co-Convener(s): Xuan Wang
Presentation File files available
Session 7: Environmental: Bioremediation
Convener(s): Prof. Raj Boopathy
Presentation File files available
Session 8: Natural Product: Natural Product Chemical Ecology and Evolution
Convener(s): Jeffrey Kim

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

5:30 PM-8:30 PM


Session PS2: Poster Session 2
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe , Stephanie Gleason and Sonya Clarkson

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Presentation File files available
Session 9: Biocatalysis: Enzymes from Extreme Environments
Convener(s): Felipe Sarmiento | Co-Convener(s): Rajesh Sani

Session 11: Environmental: Microbial Ecology of Industrially and Economically Important Environments
Convener(s): Joy Doran-Peterson

8:25 AM-11:30 AM


Session 10: Metabolic Engineering: Metabolic Engineering for Overexpression of Natural Product Pathways
Convener(s): Huimin Zhao and Peter Huston

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

1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Session 12: Fermentation/Cell Culture: Adaptive Evolution and Strain Selection
Convener(s): Katy C. Kao | Co-Convener(s): Maitreya J. Dunham

Session 13: Biocatalysis: Computational Modeling and Design of New Protein Function
Convener(s): Alexandre Zanghellini

Session 14: Natural Products: Synthetic Biology for Natural Product Biosynthesis
Convener(s): William Metcalf

2:30 PM-5:00 PM


Session 15: Student Oral Presentation Session
Convener(s): Laura R. Jarboe | Co-Convener(s): Stephanie Gleason

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


Session 16: Special Session: Diversity Initiatives in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechlnology
Convener(s): Susan T. Bagley | Co-Convener(s): Raul J. Cano

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Presentation File files available
Session 17: Fermentation/Cell Culture: DOE, Modeling and Statistics in Fermentation Optimization and Scale-Up
Convener(s): Noel Fong | Co-Convener(s): Mark Berge

Session 18: Special Session: David T. Gibson and Microbial Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolism
Convener(s): Lawrence P. Wackett | Co-Convener(s): Gregg Whited
Presentation File files available
Session 19: Environmental: Advances in Microbial Control
Convener(s): Jon J. Calomiris | Co-Convener(s): Jana S. Rajan

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Presentation File files available
Session 20: Natural Products: Novel Technologies Enabling the Discovery of Natural Products
Convener(s): Brian O. Bachmann

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


Session 21: Environmental: Functional Metagenomics
Convener(s): Esther M. Gabor
Presentation File files available
Session 22: Fermentation/Cell Culture: Biologics: Delivering Innovation to Industry and Patients Alike
Convener(s): Blum David | Co-Convener(s): Tiffany D. Rau

Session 24: Metabolic Engineering: Utilization of Alternative Feedstocks (including photosynthetic organisms)
Convener(s): Adam M. Guss | Co-Convener(s): Jay Fitzgerald

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


Session 23: Special Session: Training the Next Generation of Industrial Microbiologists, Novel Approaches
Convener(s): Joy Doran-Peterson

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”

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


Session 25: Natural Products: New Enzyme and Biosynthetic Pathways for Natural Products
Convener(s): Wendy Kelly

Session 26: Biocatalysis: Enzymes for Degradation of Pollutants
Convener(s): Rebecca Parales | Co-Convener(s): Kristina Mahan

2:00 PM-5:30 PM


Session 27: Metabolic Engineering: Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals and Fuels II
Convener(s): Sunil Chandran | Co-Convener(s): Fuzhong Zhang

Session 28: Fermentation/Cell Culture: Successful Scale-Up of Lab-Scale Performance
Convener(s): Amoolya Singh | Co-Convener(s): Caroline LeMoigne