Indiana Branch
IBASM leadership
Tim Johnson
Purdue
President
Aaron Setterdahl
IU - Southeast
President-Elect
Tanya Soule
Biodyne USA
Secretary/Treasurer
Rebecca Sparks-Thissen
Univ. Southern Indiana
Councilor
Dominique Galli
Indiana University
Educational Representative
Jen Greenwich
Indiana University
Newsletter Editor
ASM Ambassador
Radhika Bhaumik
IUPUI
Student Representative
Call for Student Representative Nominations
The IBASM Executive Committee is soliciting nominations for a student representative to serve one year (renewable for a second year) on the Executive Committee. Duties include working with the other student representative to serve as a liaison between student members and Executive Committee, submitting a statement to the newsletter twice a year, attending and assisting with the annual IBASM meeting each spring, and bringing ideas for student engagement to the branch. Graduate and undergraduate IBASM student members are eligible. The nominee should be an active student and IBASM branch member through May 2024. Self-nominations or nominations from students, faculty, or staff will be accepted. Please send a 1-2 paragraph statement of interest/nomination, including the nominee’s email address, academic year for 2023/2024, and institution, to Tanya Soule at tanyas@biodyne-usa.com.
History
IBASM was organized in 1935
Indiana may be the only place where a microbiology Ph.D. student (J.D. Watson) and their mentor (S.E. Luria) were both awarded separate Nobel Prizes for different activities
Indiana has a strong history in industrial microbiology, including Eli Lilly & Company, which was the leading producer of the killed Salk polio virus vaccine
Notable Indiana Microbiologists:
Salvador E. Luria (Nobel Prize Awardee)
James D. Watson (Nobel Prize Awardee)
Thomas D. Brock (Nobel Prize Awardee with Kary Mullis, extremophile microbiology)
Norm R. Pace (noted environmental microbiologist, pushed use of 16S rRNA as taxonomic marker gene)
Louis Y. Mazzini (noted for developing diagnostic methods for syphilis)

Branch Constitution
