SIMB Past Presidents

SIMB Officers

Standing Committees

2024 Annual Meeting Program

2024 Program Chair
John Evans, AB Mauri

Archives Committee
Term Ends 2025
Debbie Chadick

Members:
Joan Bennett, Kristien Mortelmans, Erick Vandamme

Audit Committee
Term Ends 2027
Debbie Yaver, Nature’s Fynd

Members:
Tim Davies

Awards & Honors Committee
Term ends 2026
Jennifer Headman

Members:
Raj Boopathy, Stephanie Gleason, Thomas Klasson, Sara Shields-Menard, Rajesh Sani, Shawn Nelson

Corporate Affairs Committee
Term Ends 2024
Steve Van Dien, Persephone Biome

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Term Ends 2024
Chair: Sheena Becker, Corteva

Members:
Noel Fong, Laura Jarboe, Sara Shields Menard, Vanessa Nepomuceno, Felipe Sarmiento, Ganesh Sriram

Education and Outreach Committee
Term ends 2024
Noel Fong, Nucelis, Inc.

Members:
Mark Blenner, Torben Bruck, Neal Connors, Linnea Fletcher, Laura Jarboe, Katy Kao, Elizabeth Orchard, Benjamin Philmus, Ian Wheeldon

Elections Committee
Term Ends 2026
Kristien Mortelmans, SRI International

Members:
Melanie Mormile

Ethics Committee:
Term Ends 2025
Thomas Klasson, USDA

Members:
Noel Fong, Scott Baker, Susan Bagley

Finance Committee
Term Ends 2026
Katy Kao, San Jose State University

Members:
Michael Resch, Nigel Mouncey, Elisabeth Elder, Ramon Gonzalez, Debbie Yaver, Dick Baltz

Investment Advisory Committee
Richard Baltz, CognoGen Biotechnology Consulting

Members:
George Garrity

Meeting Sites Committee
Haley Cox, SIMB

Members:
Board of Directors
Meeting Chairs

Membership – Individual Committee
Term Ends 2025
Allen Lee, University of Southern Florida

Members:
Jason Boock, Casey Hooker, Biki Kundu, Shuai Qian, Efrain Rodriguez-Ocasio, Qing Sun, Ryan Tappel, Eric Young

Nominations Committee
Term Ends 2024
Noel Fong, Nucleis

Members:
Susan Bagley, Richard Baltz, Adam Guss

Placement Committee
Term Ends 2026
Elisabeth Elder, Georgia Southwestern State University

Members:
Lisa Lee

Planning Committee
Term Ends 2024
Ramon Gonzalez, MojiaBio

Members:
Noel Fong , Allen Lee , Nigel Mouncey , Ben Shen , Kevin Solomon , Debbie Yaver

Policy and Advocacy Committee
Term Ends 2024
Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute

Members:
Thomas Alexander , Charles Isaac, Efrain Rodriguez-Ocasio, Tae Seok Moon

Publications Committee
Term Ends 2025
Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin

Members:
Ramon Gonzalez , Melanie Mormile , Yi Tang

JIMB Editor-in-Chief
Term Ends 2025
Yi Tang, UCLA

SIMB News Editor-in-Chief
Term Ends 2024
Melanie Mormile, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Members:
Elisabeth Elder, Leo H. Liu, Kristien Mortelmans

SIMB Representatives to:
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS): OPEN

Presidential Ad Hoc Committees

Student/Postdoc/Early-Career
Term Ends 2024
Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute

Members:
Md. Azizul Haque, Haley Cox, Eric Eke, Noel Fong , Jay Huenemann , Guangde Jiang, Aditya Kunjapur, Allen Lee, Bhargava Nemmaru, Lydia Rachbauer, Blake Rasor, Michael Resch , Sora Yu

SIMB Foundation Development
Term Ends 2024
George Garrity, Michigan State University

Special Conferences

Recent Advances in Fermentation Technology (RAFT®) 2023
Chair: Kat Allikian, South Pacific Sera
Co-chair: Daniel Dong, DSM-Firmenich

Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) 2024
Chair: Kevin Solomon, University of Delaware
Co-chair: Ben Woolston
Past Chair: Carrie Eckert, NREL

CMiC: Connecting Microbiome Communities 2024
Chair: Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-chair: Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute

International Conference on Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era 2023
Chair: Yi Tang, UCLA
Past chair: Ben Shen, The Scripps Research Institute