The Young Investigator Award aims to encourage young investigators to continue their research and to recognize and support their efforts at the beginning of their career. This year the award will be presented to Gregg Beckham, PhD at the Award […]
The Charles Porter Award recognizes meritorious service to the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) as exemplified by Charles Porter, co-founder of the SIMB. The award this year will be presented to Badal Saha, PhD on Thursday, July 28 […]
Fellowship status is awarded in recognition of distinction in SIMB and constitutes a special grade of membership, acknowledging a sustained record of significant research and/or service contributions to the profession of applied microbiology. This year three members, Mervyn Bibb, Raj […]
In addition to celebrating the Society’s 65th meeting, the SIMB archive committee is focusing its booth this year on fermentation. We are also recognizing David Perlman, and the fermentation award named in his honor. The deadline for nominations has passed, […]
The SIMB Diversity Travel Award has been established to promote diversity and to increase the participation of underrepresented minority groups in the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) amongst the graduate students making presentations at the SIMB Annual Meeting. […]
Dr. Jeffries is a microbial biochemist and physiologist with forty years of experience in biofuels. He is recognized internationally for expertise in pretreatment and saccharification of cellulosics and metabolic engineering of yeasts. […]
Richard H. Baltz received a B.S. degree in Microbiology from The Ohio State University in 1966 and […]
Satoshi Ōmura earned doctorate degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Tokyo (1968) and Chemistry from the Tokyo University of Science (1970). His career-long association with the Kitasato Institute began in […]
Zhiqiang An received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Kentucky and his postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently Professor and Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in […]
Dr. Hal Alper is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
