CBE Interdisciplinary Glossary

Acronyms

AES Auger Electron Spectroscopy

AFM Atomic Force Microscopy

AOC Assimilable organic carbon

APB  Acid Producing Bacteria

ASAP As soon as possible!

ATR/FT-IR Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

AWWARF American Water Works Association Research Foundation

BAM Biofilm Accumulation Model

BERP Biofilm Experimental Research Program

BIOSIM Biofilm simulation computer code published by the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich

BTEX Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene

CBE Center for Biofilm Engineering

CFSTR Continuous flow stirred-tank reactor

CIMPE Center for Interfacial Microbial Process Engineering (former name of the Center)

CSLM Confocal Scanning Laser Microscope (see SLCM)

CSTR Continually Stirred Tank Reactor

CTC Fluorogenic compound, 5-cyano- 2,3-ditolyl tetrazolium chloride (living cells show up as red when stained with CTC)

DAPI A fluorochrome that binds DNA in cells 4', 6-diamidino- 2-phenylidole (non-respiring cells show up as green when stained with DAPI)

DGGE Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis

DOE Department of Energy

DME  Detrimental Microbiological Effects, e.g., souring, biofouling, MIC

EDS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy

EDAX Energy Dispersive Analysis of X-rays

EDX Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPS Exopolysaccharide (see Microbiology)

EPRI Electrical Power Research Institute

ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis

ESEM Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy

FISH Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization

FITC Fluorescein isothiocyanate, a fluorogenic compound used to stain cells

FT-IR See ATR/FT-IR

HPC Heterotrophic Plate Count Bacteria

ICAL Image and Chemical Analysis Laboratory

INEL Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, in Idaho Falls, a Center partner

IRE Internal Reflection Element (in an ATR/FT-IR)

JEOL Japanese Electron Optics Laboratory

MIC Microbially Influenced Corrosion

MMP Microscale Microbial Process (model)

MRD Modified Robbins Device

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MSU Montana State University

NORAN Supplier of EDAX Voyager System

NSF National Science Foundation

ONR Office of Naval Research

PAGE PolyAcrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

pBAM Pipeline Biofilm Accumulation Model, a model similar to BAM, but more adept at solving problems in plug flow reactors as compared to series of CSTR's

PFR Plug Flow Reactor

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

REU Research Experience for Undergraduates - a summer program for undergrad students from across the nation

RT Rotating annular reactor (RotoTorque)

SAM Scanning Auger Microprobe

SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

SLCM Scanning Laser Confocal Microscopy (see CSLM)

SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy

SRB Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

STM Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

TAC Technical Advisory Committee

TGIF Time to meet at the Spanish Peaks!

ToFSIMS Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy

UHV Ultra-High Vacuum

URP Undergraduate Research Program

XPS X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

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