Final Program Schedule

The final schedule for this year's annual meeting is now available for download.
Download Program Schedule (PDF)

Join our annual meeting exhibitors in San Diego!


Deadline for advanced online and paper registration: July 23. After that date, please register onsite beginning Sunday, August 10 at 11:00 AM in the Atlas Ballroom Foyer of the Town and Country Hotel. Onsite registration is also available for the Alma Dietz Actinomycete Lecture and Dinner and the 5K Run/Walk.


The Society for Industrial Microbiology's (SIM) Annual Meeting and Exhibition will be held August 10 - 14, 2008 in San Diego, California at the Town and Country Hotel. Click here to book your hotel room now!

The annual meeting and exhibition continues to be an excellent opportunity for scientists and engineers from academia, government and industry to exchange information, share ideas, network, and advance the application of microbes, mammalian cells, and enzymes for industrial processes.

A program committee consisting of leaders from the industrial and academic communities has been assembled and a first-rate scientific program consisting of over 40 symposia has been put together covering the following topics: Biocatalysis, Environmental Microbiology, Fermentation & Cell Culture, Metabolic Engineering, and Natural Products.

Pre-meeting workshop on Bionanotechnology, will be featured.