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Sino-Micro Meetings

Since 2010, Sino-Micro has hosted many meetings in different countries, typically in USA and China. Recently our annual Sino-Micro meetings are held alternatively, one year in the USA, and the other year in China. Although pre-organized, our 2020 meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we had a great hybrid symposium in 2021 at Shanghai, China. In 2022, we will have one Sino-Micro annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Sino-Micro 2022 Symposium:

  • Time: 12 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time, on June 9, 2022
  • Format: A meeting as part of the ASM Microbe 2022.
  • Venue: Monument (room name), Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001. Washington Marriott Marquis is the "convention center headquarters hotel", next to Walter E. Washington Convention Center (the main conference venue).
  • Agenda: See Here.
  • Website: https://www.sinomicro.org/sinomicro2022

2021 Annual Meeting of Overseas Chinese Society of Microbiology & International Conference on Metabolic Sciences:

  • Time: October 25-29, 2021
  • Venue: Shanghai, China.
  • Format: This was a hybrid meeting, including a physical meeting part and a virtual meeting part. This meeting was co-hosted by Sino-Micro and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). There are also several Co-sponsors. See more in the Program.
  • Local hosts: Ping Xu (organization chair), Zixin Deng (co-chair), SJTU, Shanghai, China.
  • Program: See Here. Six session topics are covered: Pathogen, Virus and Vaccine, Metabolic Sciences and Microbial Metabolism, Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology, Antibiotics & Resistance, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and Intestinal Microbiomes and Microbial Bioinformatics.
  • Meeting summary:
    • Five opening talks, including the welcome messages from Dr. Zixin Deng (conference co-chair), Dr. Yumei Wen (honorary chair), Welcome introduction by Dr. Yi-Wei Tang (conference co-chair), the Scientific committee report by Dr. Oliver He (scientific committee chair), and welcome message by Dr. Ping Xu (organization committee chair).
    • 64 oral presentations, including 16 plenary presentations, 15 keynote presentations, and 33 lectures. Many world-renowned scientists such as Russ Higuchi, George Fu Gao, and Feng Shao delivered wonderful talks.
    • 52 poster presentations. 
    • Pictures and Videos: See Selected Sino-Micro 2021 Pictures and Videos.
  • Meeting website: See http://www.icms-sjtu.org/. Also check Here for more information.

Sixth Sino-Micro Symposium, 2020 - (Cancelled):

  • Time (planned): June 18, 2020, 12:00noon-8:00pm
  • Venue (planned):Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Format (planned): A meeting as part of the ASM Microbe 2020.
  • Program: See Here.
  • Comment: This meeting was eventually cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

International Symposium of Microbiology on Environment and Health & Sino-Micro 2019 Annual Meeting:

  • Time: July 12-15, 2019
  • Venue: Beijing, China
  • Format: Overseas Chinese Society of Microbiology (Sino-Micro) and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources (SKLMR), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences will co-host International Symposium of Microbiology(Microbiome)on Environmental and Health and Annual Meeting of Overseas Chinese Society of Microbiology (Sino-Micro 2019), on July 12-15, 2019 in Beijing.
  • Local hosts: Hua Xiang (Co-chair), Shuang-Jiang Liu (co-chair), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Program: See Here.

Sino-Micro 2018 Symposium:

  • Time: June 7, 2018
  • Venue: Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Format: Hosted by Sino-Micro, and co-sponsored by American Society for Microbiology and Chinese Society for Microbiology.
  • Program: See Here.
  • Meeting website: See https://www.sinomicro.org/2018symp.

Sino-Micro 2017 Symposium:

  • Time: June 29-July 1, 2017
  • Venue: Xi’an, China.
  • Format: Hosted by: Sino-Micro, School of Life Sciences, Northwest University (local host), and sponsored by Chinese Society for Microbiology and American Society for Microbiology.
  • Local host and chair: Haihua Liang, School of Life Sciences, Northwest University, China.
  • Program: See Here.
  • Meeting website: See http://www.microsociety.com.cn/ (note: not available now).

Sino-Micro 2016 Symposium:

Sino-Micro 2015 Annual Meeting in New Orleans:

  • Time: 6:30-8:00 pm, Sunday, May 31, 2015.
  • Venue: New Orleans Marriott Hotel
  • Format: Dinner, presentation, and discussion.
  • Agenda: (1) Sino-Micro business briefing and plan for a symposium in 2016; (2) Member Research update (15min/speaker, 3-5 speakers).

Sino-Micro 2014 Symposium:

  • Time: June 27-30, 2014
  • Venue: Northeast University Campus, Chongqing, China
  • Local host: Jianping Xie, Northeast University, Chongqing, China.
  • Program: See Here.

Sino-Micro Symposium 2012:

  • Time: 6/15-16/2012
  • Venue: Chancellor Hotel on Union Square, 433 Powell Street, Union Square, San Francisco, CA 94102.
  • Meeting Program: See Here.

Sino-Micro Gathering at ASM 2011:

2010 Sin-Micro meeting with theme: "Frontiers on Microbial Pathogenesis":

  • Time: 11/04-07/2010
  • Venue: Beijing, China.
  • Theme: Frontiers on Microbial Pathogenesis.
  • Local host: Jing-Ren Zhang, Tsinghua University.
  • Description: Sino-Micro and Tsinghua University co-hosted a international meeting “ Frontiers on Microbial Pathogenesis”, a part of the Tsinghua Public Health Science Conference. SINO-Micro received a significant publicity attention in Tsinghua and our organization was listed as one of the hosting organizations for Tsinghua Public Health Science Conference. SINO-Micro organization was also publicly introduced in the final conference manual. Eleven members attended Tsinghua meeting (Kangmin Duan, Hua Wang, Frank Yang, Xin Deng, Qijing Zhang, Yopinh Han, Min Wu, Zhaoqing Luo, Daoguo Zhou, Hao Shen, Benfang Lei).
  • Picture: See a related picture of this event.

Sino-Micro attending 2010 International Microbiology meeting held by the Institute of Microbiology in China:

  • Time: 11/03/2010
  • Venue: Beijing, China.
  • Format: Yiping Han, Hua Wang, and Frank Yang represented SINO-Micro and attended the International Microbiology meeting held by the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing. They delivered presentations and toured the institute.

Sino-Micro attending 2010 Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Microbiology:

  • Time: 10/29-11/01/2010
  • Venue: Huangshan, China.
  • Format: Drs. Yiping Han, Hua Wang, and Frank Yang represented SINO-Micro and were invited to attend the 2010 Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Microbiology held in Huangshan, China. .

Sino-Micro 2010 Symposium:

  • Time: 05/26/2010
  • Venue: Panda Inn Restaurant, San Diego, CA.
  • Format: Dinner and discussion, during the 2010 ASM San Diego Meeting
  • Meeting Minutes: See Here.


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