Where in the Waksman
Where in the Waksman can you find a micropoint laser?
What is room 277, the Dragonfly Spinning Disk
Treatment of which disease benefitted from work in Waksman's lab?
What is Tuberculosis
What is Airgas
This parasite, which comes in the dust and genital variety, plagues which two model organisms at Waksman
What is the mite and C. elegans and D. melanogaster
Which scientist inspired Jo Messing after watching him speak?
Who is Selman Waksman
Which wing of Waksman does not have a basement?
What is Braun
This is the enviornment where both the highly Nobel decorated C. elegans and Waksman's Streptomyces griseus live
What is soil
This town in NJ was the site of production for pipette tips, among other lab consumables.
What is Denville
Name three of the six microorganisms that Waksman wanted the institute to focus on? Though he condescended "to give minor consideration to such other groups [including] certain worms such as nematodes..."
What are Bacteria, Actinomycetes, Fungi or Molds, Yeasts, Protozoa, and Viruses
Name four individuals who have held the title of director of Waksman
Waksman, Lampen, Pramer, Bryson, Champe, Lechevalier, Irvine
Where in the Waksman can you find three Steris products?
What is the autoclave room
Selman Waksman won the Nobel prize in this category
What is Physiology and Medicine
What is Labviva
Name the three bacterial microbiologists with lab in the Waksman Institute
Who are Richard Ebright, Bryce Nickels, and Sam Yadavalli
This director has a long history of leadership and served on the board of the University Swimming Association Inc. here on Busch campus
Who is Ken Irvine
There are two of these items in the Waksman institute: one in the 4th flour lounge and the other in the bell tower
What is a ping pong table
Name one of the three recipients of the Nobel prize in Waksman's category for 2025, for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance
Who are Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdall, and Shimon Sakaguchi.
Avantor is the rebranding of what supplier, though even the sales reps still call it by the old name
What is VWR
Name two organisms at Waksman who have brains
Who are humans and Drosophila melanogaster
This director brought the first Drosophila researcher to the Waksman Institute, Dr. William H. Sofer- who also cofounded the Waksman Summer Scholars Program
You'll find a representative of this cosmetics company wandering around our fermentation facility
What is Estee Lauder
The 2024 Nobel in Waksman's category went to these two scientists (name both) for their 1993 discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Who are Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
This vendor keeps our individual lab scopes humming along
What is Advanced Imaging Concepts, also acceptable, Scott Berman
From which plant was maize domesticated?
Mary, the wife of this associate director of Waksman, isolated numerous novel forms of actinomycetes and developed a system of taxonomy of actinomycetes which is based on their morphology and on their chemical composition.
Who is Lechavlier