2/23/22 2022 SIMB Election bios for Board of Directors candidates
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Results will be published on the SIMB website and in SIMB News.
**Student members are not eligible to vote.
Candidate Bios1/19/22 SIMB welcomes new Executive Director
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Announcing the new Executive Director of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB)
Fairfax, Virginia (January 19, 2022) – The Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology is pleased to announce the hiring of our new Executive Director, Haley Cox.
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1/13/22 44th SBFC will be held in person
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The 44rd Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) will be held in person in New Orleans (USA) on May 1st-4th 2022! This year we are including 12 exciting sessions that cover leading-edge biotechnology topics towards the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials. Some of these new topics illustrate the evolution of the SBFC and include carbon sequestration, plastics deconstruction, and lignocellulose and organic waste conversion for the production of sustainable aviation fuels and performance-advantaged materials, bioaccumulation of inorganic materials, and improvement of bioenergy crops. In addition, this year we have also included 2 special topics to highlight the advances on the biotechnological production of food alternative proteins as well as the use of artificial intelligence and bio-foundries to accelerate the pace of synthetic biology. The SBFC will also cover hybrid approaches that combine biology, chemical separations, and catalysis, all towards moving forward our bioeconomy and bioenergy.
11/19/21 Call for 2022 SIMB Award Nominations
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Visit www.simbhq.org/awards to access nomination forms and instructions or contact Raj Boopathy, SIMB Awards and Honors Chair.
Presented at SBFC
Charles D. Scott Award
Bioeconomy Leadership Award
Presented at SIMB Annual Meeting
Charles Thom Award
Charles Porter Award
SIMB Fellowship
SIMB Young Investigator Award
Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award
7/15/21 New for 2021 – JIMB fully open-access and immediate publication
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Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (JIMB) now publishes all research open access and as soon as it’s available, ensuring that both theoretical and applied microbiologists can easily keep up to date in this fast-moving field.
JIMB provides reviews and reports of original research in the field of applied microbiology and biotechnology. An international journal JIMB covers all aspects relating to the study of microorganisms and the industrial application of microbiology.