SIMB Officers

President
2023-2024
Michael Resch, NREL

President-Elect
2023-2024
Ramon Gonzalez, MojiaBio

Past President
2023-2024
Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute

Treasurer
2023-2026
Katy Kao, San Jose State University

Secretary
2021-2024
Elisabeth Elder, Georgia Southwestern State University

Director
Term ends 2024
Ben Shen, The Scripps Research Institute

Director
Term ends 2025
Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Director
Term ends 2025
Adam Guss, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Director
Term ends 2026
Jennifer Headman, POET

Executive Director
Haley Cox, SIMB
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