If you believe an acronym is missing, please email bioscicomms@lbl.gov.
A – C
ABF – Agile BioFoundry
ABPDU – Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit
ADWG – Area Deputy Working Group
AFFO – Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office (part of the DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation)
ALD – Associate Lab Director
A-LIFT – Academic Learning Internships and Faculty Training Office
ALS – Advanced Light Source
ALS-ENABLE – Advanced Light Source Efficiently Networking Advanced BeamLine Experiments
ALS-U – Advanced Light Source Upgrade
ARPA-E – Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
ASCR – Advanced Scientific Computing Research program (part of the DOE Office of Science)
BAR – LBNL Business Analytics & Reporting
B&R – Budget and Reporting code
BCSB – Berkeley Center for Structural Biology
BER – Biological & Environmental Research program (part of the DOE Office of Science)
BERIL – BER Integration Layer (agentic AI interface for BRIDGE)
BES – Basic Energy Sciences program (part of the DOE Office of Science)
BioEPIC – Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center (Building 92)
BioGEM – Biological Genome Engineering and Manufacturing Facility
BRC – Bioenergy Research Center
BRIDGE – Biological and enviRonmental Infrastructure for Data manaGement and Exploration (formerly known as the BER Data Lakehouse)
BSBK – Biosciences Operations @ Berkeley (Bk)
BSSD – Biological Systems Science Division of the DOE’s BER program
BSE – Biological Systems and Engineering Divison
BSISB – Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology
CAS – Cost Accounting Standards
CCS – Carbon Capture and Storage
CD – Critical Decision (usually followed by a hyphen and number from zero to four)
CESD – Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division (part of the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area)
CFO – Chief Financial Officer
CIMG – Critical Incident Management Group
CMEI – DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
CRADA – Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CRISPR – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
CRT – Computational Research and Theory Facility
CSA – Computing Sciences Area
CSGB – DOE BES Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences
Cryo-EM – Cryogenic Electron Microscopy/Electron Cryo-microscopy
D – F
DBC – Division Business Council
DDM – Division Directors Meeting
DOE – Department of Energy
EESA – Earth & Environmental Sciences Area
EESSD – Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division of DOE’s BER program
EGD – Energy Geosciences Division (part of the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area)
EGSB – Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
EHS – Environment/Health/Safety
ENIGMA – Ecosystems and Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies Scientific Focus Area
EOC – Emergency Operations Center
eRFIC – Request for Issuance of Check (electronic)
ESA – Energy Sciences Area
ETA – Energy Technologies Area
ESE – EmeryStation East
ESnet – Energy Sciences Network
ETA – Energy Technologies Area
ExComm – Biosciences Executive Committee
FAIR (Data Principles) – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
FAIR (BER FOA) – Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research
FFRDC – Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
FMS – Financial Management System
FTE – Full-Time Equivalent
FWP – Field Work Proposal
FY – Fiscal Year (October 1 through September 30)
G – L
G&A – General and Administrative
GAAP – Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GRETA – Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array
GPL – General Purpose Lab (Building 33)
GSP – Genomic Science Program (of the DOE BER BSSD)
GSRA – Graduate Student Research Assistant
HPC – High Performance Computing
IGB – Integrative Genomics Building (Building 91)
IGPP – Institutional General Plant Project
ILA – Inter-Location Appointment
IPA – Inter-Governmental Personnel Assignment
IRB – Institutional Review Board
IRSO – International Researchers and Scholars Office
ISM – Integrated Safety Management
IT – Information Technology
JBEI – Joint BioEnergy Institute
JGI – DOE Joint Genome Institute
JLT – JGI Leadership Team
KBase – DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase
LAMBDA – Lakehouse-enabled AI-ready Multi-modal Bioimaging Data Architecture
LBNL – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Berkeley Lab Identity)
LDRD – Laboratory Directed Research and Development
LETS – Lab Employee Time System
LiSA – Liquid Sunlight Initiative (successor to the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis)
M – R
MBC – Molecular Biology Consortium
MBIB – Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging
m-CAFEs – Microbial Community Analysis & Functional Evaluation in Soils Scientific Focus Area
MFA – Multi-factor Authentication
MLA – Multiple Location Appointment
M&O – Management & Operating
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
MSD – Materials Sciences Division
NCEM – National Center for Electron Microscopy
NCXT – National Center for X-ray Tomography
NERSC – National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
NIH – National Institutes of Health
NMDC – National Microbiome Data Collaborative
NOFO – Notice of Funding Opportunity
NPO – Nonprofit Organization
OCFO – Office of the Chief Financial Officer
OPAL – Orchestrated Platform for Autonomous Laboratories to Accelerate AI-Driven BioDesign
OPHD – Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination (formerly FAIR Office)
Phenix – Python-based Hierarchical ENvironment for Integrated Xtallography
PCard – Procurement Card
PET – Positron Emission Tomography
PLF – Paid Leave Factor
PSA – Physical Sciences Area
PSPS – Public Safety Power Shutdown
RA – Resource Analyst
R&D – Research and Development
RD&T – Research, Development, and Technology
RSV – Reverse Site Visit
S – Z
SAXS – Small Angle X-ray Scattering
S&S – Safeguard & Security
SBDR – Structural Cell Biology of DNA Repair Machines
SBIR/STTR – Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer
SERC – Solar Energy Research Center (Building 30)
SES – Security and Emergency Services
SFA – Science Focus Area
SLI – Science Laboratories Infrastructure (part of DOE’s Office of Science)
SOC – Site Operations Center
SPP – Sponsored Partnership Projects
SPSA – Strategic Planning Support Activities
SIBYLS – Structurally Integrated Biology for Life Sciences
TEM – Transmission Electron Microscope
UC – University of California
UCNL – UC Office of the President, Office of the National Laboratories
UCOP – UC Office of the President
UCRP – UC Retirement Plan
