Biosafety Month 2025

1. Not a Microbe Movie
4. A geometric object that has magnitude and length, or insects.
9. Snail responsible for alphaconotoxin GI
12. Toxic on the inside
13. First President of NBACC
15. Hospital acquired infection
18. A kind of shock therapy for cells to get them to “open up”
19. A genial term for deadness
21. Say it, but don’t spray it (yet)
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
23. The time period a Form 4 must be maintained, per 42CFR73
24. A risky accomplice
25. Dutch scientist of humble origins credited with the discovery of bacteria
28. This smokin’ hot plant contributed to the discovery of viruses
29. There’s good plasma in your blood, and there’s bad plasma, at least as far as cell culture is concerned

2. This virus killed more people than WWI
3. Kingdom, …, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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!
6. Restrained research
7. LSD, Select agent edition
8. You can have (but not exceeding) 1mg of these without being a CDC registered PI
10. Carpets are permitted in labs up to this level (weird, I know!)
11. Among them, Bacillus anthracis, Nipah virus, and Rinderpest virus
14. In a laboratory, any devices that can puncture skin
16. You lost it, you file it
17. This jewel of a CMA retired last year
20. This microbial process is key to delicious foods yogurt, sourdough and (not delicious) sauerkraut
21. The opposite of pro-germ (safe for human skin)
26. No air needed
27. Trained virus