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Program
at a Glance - 2006 Annual Meeting
 Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Meeting
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel
July 30 - August 3
For
a complete listing of all technical talks, click
here.
SUNDAY, JULY 30
4:00 pm
Registration begins
6:00 pm
Keynote Address
Official opening of the Society for Industrial
Microbiology Annual Meeting
Rethinking cell and metabolic
engineering: Eliciting usually unreachable phenotypes via
global Transcriptional Machinery Engineering (gTME).
by Dr.
Gregory Stephanopoulos of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
7:00 pm
Opening Reception in the Exhibit
hall
MONDAY, JULY 31
8:00 am
Session 1: Bio-based industrial products
Convener: B.C. Saha, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL
8:00 am
Session 2: Upstream Process Development for Mammalian Cell
Culture: from Tiny Cells to Large Reactors
Conveners: Jinyou
Zhang, Merck & Co.,
Rahway, NJ and WengLong Lin, Shire Human Genetic Therapies,
Inc., Cambridge, MA
8:30am
Session 3: Recent chemical and enzymatic strategies
for natural product diversification
Convener: Jon Thorson,
University of Wisconsin
8:30am
Session 4: Engineering enzyme biocatalysts towards
commercial utility
Convener: Andreas Bommarius, Georgia Tech.
University, Atlanta, GA
8:30am
Session 5: Wastewater microbiology: Nutrient-removing
activities of bacteria and new discoveries
Conveners: Valerie
Benning and S. Tarallo, In-Pipe Technology
8:30am
Session 6: Proteomics of the Future
Conveners: Daniel Drell,
DOE and Scott Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, WA
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch
11:30am - 1:00pm
Quarter Century Club Luncheon (By
invitation only)
1:00pm
Session 7: Advances in Industrial Microbiology and
Biotechnology in Mexico
Convener: Sergio Sanchez, UNAM, Mexico
City, Mexico
1:00pm
Session 8: Mammalian and Insect Cell Culture for Biotechnology
Applications
Conveners: Michael Betenbaugh, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD and William Bentley, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD
1:00pm
Session 9: Natural Products: New Products, New Pathways
Convener:
Bradley Moore, University of California San Diego, San Diego,
CA
1:00pm
Session 10: Molecular Tools for the Metabolic Engineer
Convener: Christina Smolke,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1:00pm
Session 11: Fungal Genome Bioinformatics
Convener: G. Butler,
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1:00pm
Session 12: Marcel Faber Roundtable: On the road to
economical biofuels: Are we there yet?
Convener: Linda Lasure,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
4:00 - 6:00pm
Session 13: Poster Session 1
6:00 - 9:00pm
Session 14: Alma Dietz Actinomycete Roundtable
and Dinner
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1
6:00am
5K Fun run/walk
8:30am
Session 15: Production of Therapeutic Proteins in Yeast
and Filamentous Fungi
Convener: Tillman Gerngross, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH
8:30am
Session 16: Enabling Technologies for Natural Product
Research
Conveners: Kevin Reynolds, Portland
State University, Portland, OR and Greg Challis, University
of Warwick, Warwick, UK
8:30am
Session
17: Advances in Industrial Enzymes
Convener:
Debbie Yaver, Novozymes, Davis, CA
8:30am
Session 18: Engineering
Primary Metabolism - New Pathways to Old Products
Conveners:
Hans Liao, Cargill, Minneapolis, MN and Ish Dhawan, Codexis,
Redwood City, CA
8:30am
Session 19: Quality assurance
for food, water and environmental microbiology testing labs
Convener:
R.S. Donofrio, NSF International, Ann Arbor, MI
8:30am
Session 20: Industrial Fungal
Proteomics I
Conveners: Kim Brown, Novozymes,
Davis, CA and Mark Marten, University of Maryland Baltimore
County, Baltimore, MD
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm
Amgen Award Lecture
"Splendid
gifts from microorganisms - Discovery, Chemistry and Chemical
Biology"
Dr. Satoshi Omura, The Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2:00pm
Session 21: US Federation for Culture Collections Roundtable
Convener:
Micah Krichevsky, USFCC, Rockville, MD
2:00pm
Session 22: Student Contributed Paper
Session
Conveners: Susan Bagley, Michigan Technological University,
Houghton, MI and Rob Donofrio, NSF International, Ann Arbor, MI
3:30pm
Session 23: Poster Session 2
5:30pm
International Participants Reception
6:30pm
Society Reception and Dinner
Dinner speaker:
Dr. Arnold Demain, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2
8:30am
Session 24: Cell and tissue culture models for drug development and therapies
Convener: J.H. David Wu, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
8:30am
Session 25: Production of nutraceuticals
through strain and fermentation improvements
Convener:
Adam Burja, Ocean Nutrition Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
8:30am
Session 26: New Technologies and Systems in Biocatalysis
Convener:
Brian Bachmann, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
8:30am
Session 27: Engineering Regulatory Networks
Conveners:
James Liao, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Goutham Vemuri, Danish Technical University,
Lyngby, Denmark
8:30am
Session 28: The Untapped Potential of Halophiles
Convener:
Carol Litchfield, George Mason University, Manassas, VA
8:30am
Session 29: Fungal Proteomics in Agriculture
Conveners:
Thomas Mitchell, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Daren Brown,
USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL
11:30am
Annual Society Business Meeting
2:30pm
Annual Outing
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3
8:30am
Session 30: Advances in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
in Canada
Convener: Susan Jensen, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta Canada
8:30am
Session 31: Natural Product Mechanisms of Action
Convener:
Jun Liu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
8:00am
Session 32: Bacillus megaterium as
industrial production host
Convener: Dieter Jahn, Technical University
Braunschweig, Braunsweig, Germany
8:00am
Session 33: Engineering Metabolic Networks
Toward the Production of Novel products
Convener: Matheos
Koffas, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
8:30am
Session 34: Extremophiles
Convener: Frank Robb,
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD
8:00am
Session 35: Industrial Fungal Proteomics II
Conveners:
Jon Magnuson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA and Valerie
Sarisky-Reed, DOE Office of the Biomass Program, Washington, DC
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm
The Charles Thom Award Lecture
Patents for Patients – Opportunities
in Microbial Products
Richard Monaghan,Monatay Entyerprises
LLC, Morristownl NJ
2:00pm
Session 36: Genetics, Protein Expression
and Morphology: Connecting the Dots in Fungal Fermentations
Convener:
Swapnil Bhargava, Novozymes North America, Franklinton, NC
2:00pm
Session 37: Novel Enzymology for Natural
Product Biosynthesis and Engineering
Conveners: Hung-wen Liu, University of Texas,
Austin, TX and J. Noel, HHMI and Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla,
CA
2:00pm
Session 38: Development of Commercial Biocatalytic Processes
Convener: John Wong, Pfizer, Groton, CT
2:00pm
Session 39: Engineering of Mammalian Cells for Optimal Protein Production
Convener: John Birch, Lonza Biologics, Slough, Berkshire, UK
2:00pm
Session 40: Proteomics Panel Discussion
Convener: Matthew Sachs, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland,
OR
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Chair
Neal Connors, Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, NJ
Program Co-Chairs
Fermentation and cell culture
Arnold Demain, Drew University
Natural Products
Kevin Reynolds, Portland State University
Ben Shen, University of Wisconsin
Biocatalysis
Stephen del Cardayre, Codexis
Metabolic Engineering
Stephen
del Cardayre, Codexis
Richard Bailey, Microbia
Environmental Microbiology
Carol Litchfield,
George Mason University
Susan Bagley, Michigan Technological University
2nd International Fungal Proteomics Symposium
Scott Baker and Linda Lasure, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
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