| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIMB | Center For International Meeting On Biology |
| PFGE | Pulsed-field Gel Electrophresis |
| EURESCO | European Research Conferences |
| SULS | Suffolk Univ. Law School |
| ABI | Applied Biosystems |
| ASM | American Society For Microbiology |
| YAC | Yeast Artificial Chromosome |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |
| WSES | World Scientific And Engineering Society |