Year

Dates of
General Meeting

Meeting Location

President  & Affiliation

1899

Dec 27-29

New Haven, CT

Meeting Program

Organizational Meeting

1900

Dec 27-28

Baltimore, MD

Meeting Program

Presidential Address

Sedgwick, William Thompson

(1855-1921)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boston, MA

1901

Dec 30 -

Jan 1, 1902

Chicago,  IL

Meeting Program

William Henry Welch

(1850-1934)

Johns Hopkins University Medical School

Baltimore, MD

1902

Dec 30-31

Washington, DC

Herbert William Conn

(1859-1917)

Wesleyan University

Middletown, CT

1903

Dec 29-30

Philadelphia, PA

Presidential Address

Theobald Smith

(1859-1934)

Harvard Medical School;

Massachusetts State Board of Health

Boston, MA

1904

Dec 27-28

Philadelphia, PA

Frederick George Novy

(1864-1957)

University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor, MI

1905

Dec 28-29

Ann Arbor, MI

Edwin Oakes Jordan

(1866-1936)

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

1906

Dec 27-29

New York, NY

Erwin Frink Smith

(1854-1927)

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, DC

1907

Dec 31-

Jan 2, 1908

Chicago, IL

James Carroll

(1854-1907)

Columbian University

(George Washington University)

Washington, DC

1908

Dec 29-31

Baltimore, MD

Harry Luman Russell

(1866-1954)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1909

Dec 28-30

Boston, MA

Joseph James Kinyoun

(1860-1919)

George Washington Medical School

Washington, DC

1910

Dec 28-30

Ithaca, NY

Veranus Alva Moore

(1859-1931)

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

1911

Dec 27-29

Washington, DC

Presidential Address

Frederick Poole Gorham

(1871-1933)

Brown University

Providence, RI

1912

Dec 31-

Jan 2, 1913

New York, NY

William Hallock Park

(1863-1939)   

New York Department of Health;

New York University

New York, NY

1913

Dec 31-

Jan 2, 1914

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow

(1877-1957)   

Yale University

New Haven, CT

1914

Dec 29-

Jan 1, 1915

Philadelphia, PA

Charles Edward Marshall

(1866-1927)

Massachusetts Agricultural College

Amherst, MA 

1915

Dec 28-30

Urbana, IL

David Hendricks Bergey

(1860-1937)

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

1916

Dec 27-29

New Haven, CT

Thomas Jonathan Burrill

(1839-1916)

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

1917

Dec 27-29

Washington, DC

Leo Frederick Rettger

(1874-1954)

Yale University

New Haven, CT

1918

Dec 27-28

Baltimore, MD

Robert Earle Buchanan

(1883-1973)

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

1919

Dec 29-31

Boston, MA

Samuel Cate Prescott

(1872-1962)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boston, MA

1920

Dec 28-30

Chicago, IL

Charles Krumwiede, Jr.

(1879-1930)

New York University and

Bellevue Hospital Medical College

New York, NY

1921

Dec 27-29

Philadelphia, PA

Frank Charles Harrison

(1871-1952)

MacDonald College,

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1922

Dec 28-30

Detroit, MI

Lore Alford Rogers

(1875-1975)

Bureau of Dairy Industry,

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, DC

1923

Dec 27-29

New Haven, CT

Edwin George Hastings

(1872-1953)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1924

Dec 29-31

Washington, DC

Arthur Parker Hitchens

(1877-1949)

U.S. Army Medical Corps

Washington, DC 

1925

Dec 29-31

Madison, WI

Norman MacLeod Harris

(1870-1953)

Laboratory of Hygiene,

Department of Health

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1926

Dec 28-30

Philadelphia, PA

Hans Zinsser

(1878-1940)

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

1927

Dec 28-30

Rochester, NY

Robert Stanley Breed

(1877-1956)

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station

Geneva, NY

1928

Dec 27-29

Richmond, VA

Alice Catherine Evans

(1881-1975)

U.S. Public Health Service

Washington, DC

1929

Dec 30-

Jan 1, 1930

Ames, IA

Ludvig Hektoen

(1863-1951)

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

1930

Dec 29-31

Boston, MA

Stanhope Bayne-Jones

(1888-1970)

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

1931

Dec 28-30

Baltimore, MD

James Howard Brown

(1884-1956)

Johns Hopkins University Medical School

Baltimore, MD

1932

Dec 28-30

Ann Arbor, MI

Edwin Broun Fred

(1887-1981)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1933

Dec 27-29

Philadelphia, PA

William Mansfield Clark

(1884-1964)

Johns Hopkins University Medical School

Baltimore, MD

1934

Dec 27-29

Chicago, IL

Milton Joseph Rosenau

(1869-1946)

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA

1935

Dec 26-28

New York, NY

Karl Friedrich Meyer

(1884-1974)

University of California

Berkeley, CA and

San Francisco, CA

1936

Dec 28-30

Indianapolis, IN

Thomas Milton Rivers

(1888-1962)

Rockefeller Institute

New York, NY

1937

Dec 28-30

Washington, DC

James Morgan Sherman

(1890-1956)

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

1938

Aug 30-Sep 1

San Francisco, CA

Paul Franklin Clark

(1882-1983)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1939

Dec 28-30

New Haven, CT           

Arthur Trautwein Henrici

(1889-1943)

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

1940

Dec 27-29

St. Louis, MO

Charles Thom

(1872-1956)

Division of Soil Microbiology,

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, DC

1941

Dec 29-31

Baltimore, MD

Oswald Theodore Avery

(1877-1955)

Rockefeller Institute

New York, NY

1942

Dec 28-30

[meeting canceled]

Columbus, OH

[meeting canceled]

Selman Abraham Waksman

(1888-1973)

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ

1943

No meeting

scheduled

No meeting

scheduled

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield

(1895-1981)

Rockefeller Institute

New York, NY

1944

May 3-5

New York, NY

Ira Lawrence Baldwin

(1895-1999)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1945

May 22-25

[meeting canceled]

Detroit, MI

[meeting canceled]

Stuart Mudd

(1893-1975)

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

1946

May 13-16

Detroit, MI

James Craigie

(1899-1976)

Connaught Laboratories

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1947

May 13-16

Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Francis, Jr.

(1900-1969)

University of Michigan School of Public Health

Ann Arbor, MI 

1948

May 10-14

Minneapolis, MN

Harold Joel Conn

(1886-1975)

New York State Agriculture Experiment Station

Geneva, NY

1949

May 17-20

Cincinnati, OH

William McDowell Hammon

(1904-1989)

School of Public Health and

Hooper Foundation

University of California

San Francisco, CA

1950

May 14-18

50th Anniversary of SAB - Chronicles of the Society of American Bacteriologists 1899-1950

Baltimore, MD

Barnett Cohen

(1891-1952)

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

1951

May 27-31

Chicago, IL

Walter James Nungester

(1901-1985)

University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor, MI

1952

Apr 27-May 1

Boston, MA

Rene Jules Dubos

(1901-1976)

Rockefeller Institute

New York, NY

1953

Aug 10-14

San Francisco, CA

Gail Monroe Dack

(1901-1976)

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

1954

May 2-7

Pittsburgh, PA

Cornelius Bernard van Niel

(1897-1985)

Hopkins Marine Station

Stanford University

Pacific Grove, CA

1955

May 8-12

New York, NY

Halvor Orin Halvorson

(1897-1975)

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

1956

Apr 29-May 3

Houston, TX

Charles Arthur Stuart

(1893-1962)

Brown University

Providence, RI

1957

Apr 28-May 2

Detroit, MI

Perry William Wilson

(1902-1981)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1958

Apr 27-May 1

Chicago, IL

Harry Eagle

(1905-1992)

U.S. Public Health Service

Washington, DC

1959

May 10-14

St. Louis, MO

Philip Rarick Edwards

(1901-1966)

Communicable Disease Center

U.S. Public Health Service

Atlanta, GA

1960

May 1-5

Philadelphia, PA

Charles Albert Evans

(1912-

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1961

Apr 23-27

Chicago, IL

Herald Rea Cox

(1907-1986)

Lederle Laboratories

Pearl River, NY

1962

May 6-10

Kansas City, MO

John Edward Blair

(1899-1980)

Hospital for Joint Diseases

New York, NY

1963

May 5-9

Cleveland, OH

Robert Lyman Starkey

(1899-1991)

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ

1964

May 3-7

Washington, DC

John Roger Porter

(1909-1979)

University of Iowa Medical School

Iowa City, IA

1965

Apr 25-29

Atlantic City, NJ

Orville Wyss

(1912-1993)

University of Texas

Austin, TX

1966

May 1-5

Los Angeles, CA

Riley Dee Housewright

(1913-2003)

U.S. Army Biological Laboratories

Frederick, MD

1967

Apr 30-May 4

New York, NY

William Bowen Sarles

(1906-1987)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1968

May 5-10

Detroit, MI

Salvador Edward Luria

(1912-1991)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boston, MA

1969

May 4-9

Miami Beach, FL

Dennis Wallace Watson

(1914-    )

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

1970

Apr 26-May 1

Boston, MA

Edwin Michael Foster

(1917-

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

1971

May 2-7

Minneapolis, MN

Robert Edward Hungate

(1906-2004)

University of California

Davis, CA

1972

Apr 23-28

Philadelphia, PA

Morris Frank Shaffer

(1910-1993)

Tulane University School of Medicine

New Orleans, LA

1973

May 6-11

Miami Beach, FL

Robert George Everett Murray

(1919-    )

University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

1974

May 12-17

Chicago, IL

Linzy Leon Campbell

(1927-    )

University of Delaware

Newark, DE

1975

Apr 27-May 2

New York, NY

Philipp Gerhardt

(1921-2008)

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

1976

May 2-7

Atlantic City, NJ

Helen Riaboff Whiteley

(1921-1990)

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1977

May 8-13

New Orleans, LA

Harlyn Odell Halvorson

(1925-2008)

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

1978

May 14-19

Las Vegas, NV

Aaron Frederick Rasmussen, Jr.

(1915-1984)

School of Medicine,

University of California

Los Angeles, CA

1979

May 4-11

Los Angeles, CA
(May 4-8) and

Honolulu, HI

(May 8-11) with the  U.S.-Japan Intersociety Microbiology Congress

Edwin Herman Lennette

(1908-2000)

California State Department of Health

Berkeley, CA

1980

May 11-16

Miami Beach, FL

Willis Avery Wood

(1921-    )

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

1981

Mar 1-6

Dallas, TX

Albert Balows

(1921-2006)

Centers for Disease Control

Atlanta, GA

1982

Mar 7-12

Atlanta, GA

Frederick Neidhardt

(1931-    )

University of Michigan School of Medicine

Ann Arbor, MI

1983

Mar 6-11

New Orleans, LA

John Charles Sherris

(1921-    )

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1984

Mar 4-9

St. Louis, MO

Robert Pierce Williams

(1920-1993)

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

1985

Mar 3-8

Las Vegas, NV

Rita Rossi Colwell

(1934-    )

University of Maryland

College Park, MD

1986

Mar 23-28

Washington, DC

Moselio Schaechter

(1928-    )

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, MA

1987

Mar 1-6

Atlanta, GA

Jean E. Brenchley

(1944-    )

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

1988

May 8-13

Miami Beach, FL

Barbara H. Iglewski

(1938-    )

University of Rochester Medical Center

Rochester, NY

1989

May 14-19

New Orleans, LA

Alice S. Huang

(1939-    )

Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital

Boston, MA

1990

May 13-17

Anaheim, CA

Walter R. Dowdle

(1930-    )

Centers for Disease Control

Atlanta, GA

1991

May 5-9

Dallas, TX

Joan W. Bennett

(1942-    )

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA

1992

May 26-30

New Orleans, LA

Richard L. Crowell

(1930-    )

Hahnemann University School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

1993

May 16-20

Atlanta, GA

John Ingraham

(1924-    )

University of California

Davis, CA

1994

May 22-26

Las Vegas, NV

Gail H. Cassell

(1946-    )

University of Alabama

Birmingham, AL

1995

May 21-25

Washington, DC

David Schlessinger

(1936-    )

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, MO

1996

May 19-23

New Orleans, LA

Carol A. Nacy

(1948-    )

EntreMed, Inc.

Rockville, MD

1997

May 4-8

Miami Beach, FL

Kenneth I. Berns

(1938-    )

Cornell University Medical College

New York, NY

1998

May 17-21

Atlanta, GA

Stanley Falkow

(1934-    )

Stanford University School of Medicine

Palo Alto, CA

1999

May 30-Jun 3

Chicago, IL

Stuart Levy

(1938-    )

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, MA

2000

May 21-25

Los Angeles, CA

Julian Davies

(1932-    )

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2001

May 20-24

Orlando, FL

Martha Howe

(1945-    )

University of Tennessee

Memphis, TN

2002

May 19-23

Salt Lake City UT

Abigail Salyers

(   )

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

2003

May 18-22

Washington, DC

Ronald Atlas

(1946-    )

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

2004

May 23-27

New Orleans, LA

Thomas E. Shenk

(1947-    )

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

2005

Jun 5-9

Atlanta, GA

James Tiedje

(1942-    )

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

2006

May 21-25

Orlando, FL

Stanley Maloy

(1953-    )

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

2007

May 21-25

Toronto, Ontario,

Canada

Diane E. Griffin

(1940-    )

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD

2008

Jun 1-5

Boston, MA

Clifford W. Houston

(1949-    )

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, TX

2009

May 17-21

Philadelphia, PA

Alison D. O'Brien

(1947-    )

Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences

Bethesda, MD

2010

May 23-27

San Diego, CA

Roberto Kolter

(    )

Harvard University

Boston, MA

2011

May 21-24

New Orleans, LA

Bonnie Bassler

(    )

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

2012

Jun 16-19

San Francisco, CA

David C. Hooper

(    )

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

2013

May 18-21

Denver, CO

Jeffery F. Miller

(    )

University of California - Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA