For SIMB Members
Please join us in congratulating our 2018 awardees. Awards will be presented at the annual banquet.
Charles Porter Award
Leonard Katz, Ph.D. – University of California-Berkeley
Charles Thom Award
Ben Shen – The Scripps Research Institute
SIMB Fellowship
Douglas Eveleigh, Ph.D – Rutgers University (emeritus)
Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award
Reeta Rao – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Young Investigator Award
No awardee selected for 2018.
For Students
Please join us in congratulating our 2018 awardees. Awards will be presented at the annual banquet.
Carol D. Litchfield Best Student Oral Presentation Award
The oral presentations will be selected based on the submitted abstracts by the convener(s) of the oral presentation session and judged by special members of the Awards and Honors committee at the annual meeting.
Carol D. Litchfield Best Student Poster Presentation Awards
Five Best Poster Presentation Awards will be given, one in each of the Society’s core areas (Biocatalysis, Environmental Microbiology, Fermentation and Cell Culture, Metabolic Engineering, and Natural Products). Posters will be judged onsite by special members of the Awards and Honors Committee at the annual meeting.
Diversity Travel Award
Vanessa Nepomuceno – University of Illinois at Chicago
Michelle Olson – Texas A&M
For Companies
SIMB’s Industry Award for Discovery, Innovation, and Development in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
No awardee selected for 2018.