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
Student Awards will be judged onsite.
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