SIMB announces new partnership with Oxford University Press to publish the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (JIMB)

Under a new agreement between SIMB and Oxford University Press (OUP) beginning in January 2021, JIMB will be published by Oxford University Press (OUP) as an open access publication. Ramon Gonzalez, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of JIMB said, “On behalf of the Editorial Board of JIMB, I would like to express my excitement about this new partnership with OUP. The excellent digital capabilities and publishing experience of OUP will undoubtedly lead to an increase in the visibility, influence, and impact of the research being published by JIMB. We very much look forward to leveraging OUP resources to better serve authors, readers, reviewers, editors, and the SIMB community at large.”

See more by visiting the Oxford University Press announcement.

The submissions link for JIMB is now active and includes new terms for JIMB as an open access publication.

Submit to JIMB

University of Wisconsin talks about Nancy Keller and her receiving the Charles Thom Award for 2020.
Link to the University of Wisconsin post.

When I took over from Steve Van Dien as President of SIMB in August of 2019, we had just completed a fantastically successfully meeting in Washington, D.C, capping off a great year for SIMB under his direction. In the fall of 2019, we had one of the most successful RAFT meetings ever. Attendance was the best it’s ever been and the scientific program was outstanding. The same was true of the Natural Products meeting held in January 2020. I presided at both meetings, met with the organizing committees and made plans for RAFT in 2021 and Natural Products in 2022. 2019 was a banner year for SIMB both scientifically and financially.
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SIMB has announced the winners of the SIMB Awards for 2020. Awardees will be recognized at the 2021 SIMB Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, August 8-11.

Charles Thom Award – Nancy Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin Announcement

Charles Porter Award – Debbie Yaver, Novozymes

Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award – Rajesh Sani, South Dakota School of Mines

SIMB Fellows (2) – Jonathan Mielenz, White Cliff Biosystems and Krishna Madduri, Corteva

SIMB Young Investigator Award – Kang Zhou, National University of Singapore

Read more about the SIMB Awards

Published in Gainesville Sun from Jul. 4 to Jul. 5, 2020.

Dr. Lonnie O’Neal Ingram, who pioneered genetic engineering of bacteria for production of fuels and chemicals from inedible plant materials, passed away on June 25, 2020 at the age of 72 in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Ingram served as a Professor of microbiology at the University of Florida’s Microbiology and Cell Science Department (part of the Institute for Florida Agricultural Sciences) in Gainesville, Florida from 1972 through 2017, retiring as a Distinguished Professor. His scientific accomplishments were recognized by his induction into the National Academy of Sciences (2001), the American Society for Microbiology and the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. Read the rest of this entry »