2016 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition

2016 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Sunday, July 24, 2016

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7:30 AM-8:30 AM

Workshop registration

8:00 AM-3:00 PM

SIMB Board of Directors Meeting

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

Advanced Fermentation Concepts

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Registration

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Opening General Session and Keynote Speech: Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Science Slam - WILL NOT TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

Exhibits Open/Opening Reception/Poster Session 1

Session PS1: Poster Session I

Monday, July 25, 2016

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7:30 AM-8:00 AM

Exhibitor Showcases - Continental Breakfast Served

7:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Session 2: Disposable technologies for high throughput fermentation
Steven Doig and Bryce Causey

Session 3: Non-conventional organisms and extremophiles in metabolic engineering
Michelle O'Malley and Shota Atsumi

Session 4: Molecular mechanisms of bioactive fungal natural products biosynthesis
Zhiqiang An and Joan W. Bennett

Session 5: Teaching old dogs new tricks: Novel catalytic reactions mediated by P450 enzymes
Ellen Neidle and Rudi Fasan

8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Session 1: Advanced imaging and analytical capabilities for microbial research
Scott Lea

9:00 AM-3:00 PM

Exhibits Open

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Diversity Committee Meeting

Lunch in Exhibit Hall - all registered attendees

Quarter Century Club Lunch

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Session 6: Scale without fail: Fermentation scale-up/scale down
Chandresh Thakker and Susanne Kleff

Session 7: Metabolic Engineering for Fuels and Chemicals I Sponsored by REG
Brian Pfleger and Rachit Jain

Session 8: Environmental exposure and the microbiome
Aaron T. Wright and Julia Yue Cui

Session 9: Natural products from higher fungi
Jonathan D. Walton and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Session 10: The Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology: Past, Present, and Future
Ramon Gonzalez

5:00 PM-8:00 PM

Exhibits Open/Poster Session 2/Reception

Session PS2: Poster Session II

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

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6:15 AM-7:15 AM

Annual 5K Fun Run/Walk

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Session 11: Enzyme engineering, Directed Protein Evolution & computational design (ROOM CHANGED)
David Rozzel and David Weiner

Session 12: Metabolic Engineering for Fuels and Chemicals II
Priti Pharkya and Fuzhong Zhang

Session 13: Exploiting the microbial social network
Steve Lindemann and Pui Yi (Maria) Yung

Session 14: Natural products in plants
Kristy Hawkins

Session 15: Cell culture and fermentation: Delivering innovation and quality (Room Change)
Swapnil Bhargava and Tiffany D. Rau

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Session 16: Student Oral Presentation Session
Stephanie Gleason, Laura R. Jarboe and Sonya Clarkson

9:00 AM-3:00 PM

Exhibits Open

11:00 AM-6:00 PM

SIMB Senior Editors' Luncheon Meeting

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch in Exhibit Hall

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Session 17: Adaptive evolution and genome stability in strain development
Noel Fong and Katy C. Kao

Session 18: Genomics-guided NP discovery and engineering in bacteria
Jeffrey Kim and Nathan A. Magarvey

Session 19: Microbial Conversion Factories
Yoram Barak and Mary Ann Franden

Session 20: Metabolic engineering for utilization of alternative feedstocks
Cong T. Trinh and Jay Fitzgerald

Session 21: Diversity: Implicit Bias in the Workplace Sponsored by Dow AgroSciences
Susan Bagley and Raul J. Cano

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

International Outreach Committee

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Exhibits Open/Pre-Banquet Reception

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

Annual Society Banquet - Guest Speaker Larry Walker

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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7:30 AM-1:00 PM

Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Session 22: Process controls & analytical technologies for fermentation
Mark Berge and Frank Agbogbo

Session 23: Prof. Arnold Demain: Leaving a legacy in the field of industrial microbiology
Neal Connors and Erick Vandamme

Session 24: Bioremediation of explosive-contaminated soil and water
Raj Boopathy and Karl Indest

Session 25: Lignocellulosic Conversion Sponsored by Novozymes
KC McFarland and Tina Jeoh

Session 27: Synthetic biology tools and applications
Howard Salis and Emily Leproust

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Session 26: Mechanism and application of NP tailoring biosynthesis
Eung-Soo Kim and David Sherman

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

SIMB Annual Business Meeting

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Student Mentoring Luncheon - Complimentary for students; must register

12:45 PM-3:45 PM

USDA Tour - separate signup and wavier required

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2017 Program Planning Committee

4:30 PM-8:30 PM

Annual Outing - New Orleans Cultural Tour and Dinner; separate registration and waiver required

Thursday, July 28, 2016

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7:30 AM-12:00 PM

SIMB New Board of Directors meeting

7:30 AM-3:30 PM

Registration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Session 28: Microbial Control and Food Safety Sponsored by Toxins
Joan W. Bennett and Jiujiang Yu

Session 29: Challenges and advances in fungal fermentation technologies
Jeff Running and Peter Punt

Session 30: Industrialization of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Reshma Shetty and Ken Bruno

Session 31: Innovations in industrial microbiology and biotechnology: USDA-ARS Utilizations Centers celebrate 75th anniversary
Deepak Bhatnagar and Badal C. Saha

Session 32: Moving microbial technologies from academia to the marketplace
Jane Garrity and Bryan Tracy

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch on your Own

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Charles Thom Award Lecture: Synthetic Biology: A New Engine for the Third Wave of Biotechnology, Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

Session 33: Enzymes from extreme environments: Exploring the diversity, activity and industrial use of enzymes that function in extreme conditions
Janet Westpheling and Jenny M. Blamey

Session 34: Applying omics to wastewater treatment
Steven W. Singer and Rose Kantor

Session 35: The industrial microbiology behind living therapeutics and microbiome products
Thomas Kelleher and Andreas Schirmer