SIM congratulates its 2008 Awardees who will be honored at the Annual Meeting. We also welcome the meeting’s featured speakers.
Porter Awardee: Richard Baltz, Cubist Pharmaceuticals
Thom Awardee: James Liao, UCLA
Waksman Outstanding Educator Awardee: Eric Johnson, University of Wisconsin
SIM Fellow: Prakash Masurekar, Rutgers University
Best Student Abstract Awards (awardees underlined)
Poster: Evans' aldol reaction with a tertiary enolate: Efficient preparation of recurring biosynthetic motifs in bioactive natural products
Joshwana K. Nunnery,1 Takashi L. Suyama,1 Roger G. Linington,2 and William H. Gerwick.1 (1) Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2) Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
Oral: Isolation of the napyradiomycin biosynthetic cluster provides a powerful toolbox to study unique halogenating enzymes
Jaclyn M. Winter and Bradley S. Moore, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
Amgen Keynote Speaker: William Fenical (see biography), Scripps Inst. of Oceanography; The changing face of microbial natural products chemistry: Discovering new sources and applying molecular tools (see abstract)
Alma Dietz Actinomycete Lecturer: Russell Hill, Center of Marine Biotechnology, UMBI; "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner": The challenging hunt for useful marine actinomycetes
Banquet Speaker: Hazel Barton, Northern Kentucky University; Amazing caves: Amazing microbes
Charles Thom Lecture: James Liao, UCLA; Metabolic Engineering for Energy