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2026 Program Chair<\/p>\n<\/div>

Jennifer Headman<\/h3><\/div>

POET<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Email Jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Topic Chairs<\/h2><\/div>
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Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering<\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Ross Thyer<\/strong>
\nRice University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Bjorn Traag<\/strong>
\nAralez Bio<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Josh Michener<\/strong>
\nOak Ridge National Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Fermentation and Biomanufacturing<\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Neal Connors<\/strong>
\nPhoenix BioConsulting, LLC<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sarita Chauhan<\/strong>
\nGEA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Chris Stowers<\/strong>
\nKerry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Microbiomes and Environmental Microbiology<\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Kate Zhalnina<\/strong>
\nLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Joshua Elmore<\/strong>
\nPacific Northwest National Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Allison Werner<\/strong>
\nNational Laboratory of the Rockies<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Metabolic Engineering<\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Jay Huenemann<\/strong>
\nCorteva<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Pamela Peralta-Yahya<\/strong>
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Alissa Bleem<\/strong>
\nNational Laboratory of the Rockies<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Natural Products<\/h3><\/div>
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Jaclyn Winter<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Utah<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Wenlong Cai<\/strong>
\nBrightseed<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Barry O’ Keefe<\/strong>
\nNational Institutes of Health<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7878,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1997\/revisions\/9646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/annual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}