Biosafety Month 2025

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Across
  1. 1. Not a Microbe Movie
  2. 4. A geometric object that has magnitude and length, or insects.
  3. 9. Snail responsible for alphaconotoxin GI
  4. 12. Toxic on the inside
  5. 13. First President of NBACC
  6. 15. Hospital acquired infection
  7. 18. A kind of shock therapy for cells to get them to “open up”
  8. 19. A genial term for deadness
  9. 21. Say it, but don’t spray it (yet)
  10. 22. When talking about viruses, it’s a hybrid containing the genetic material from two or more viruses. When talking about Greek Mythology, a fire breathing hybrid creature composed of different animal parts
  11. 23. The time period a Form 4 must be maintained, per 42CFR73
  12. 24. A risky accomplice
  13. 25. Dutch scientist of humble origins credited with the discovery of bacteria
  14. 28. This smokin’ hot plant contributed to the discovery of viruses
  15. 29. There’s good plasma in your blood, and there’s bad plasma, at least as far as cell culture is concerned
Down
  1. 2. This virus killed more people than WWI
  2. 3. Kingdom, …, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
  3. 5. This nematode has won at least 4 Nobel prizes for their contribution in the studies of fundamental biological processes such as cell development. Well, they at least helped!
  4. 6. Restrained research
  5. 7. LSD, Select agent edition
  6. 8. You can have (but not exceeding) 1mg of these without being a CDC registered PI
  7. 10. Carpets are permitted in labs up to this level (weird, I know!)
  8. 11. Among them, Bacillus anthracis, Nipah virus, and Rinderpest virus
  9. 14. In a laboratory, any devices that can puncture skin
  10. 16. You lost it, you file it
  11. 17. This jewel of a CMA retired last year
  12. 20. This microbial process is key to delicious foods yogurt, sourdough and (not delicious) sauerkraut
  13. 21. The opposite of pro-germ (safe for human skin)
  14. 26. No air needed
  15. 27. Trained virus