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===2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues?=== | ===2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues?=== | ||
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===3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? === | ===3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? === | ||
| - | There is no biosafety group at our high school. Our iGEM team is responsible for safety. We follow the World Health Organization Laboratory safety regulations: http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/en/Biosafety7.pdf | + | There is no biosafety group at our high school. Our iGEM team is responsible for safety. As such, we have completed a mandatory lab safety quiz as well as practiced with certain equipment. |
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===4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?=== | ===4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?=== | ||
| - | + | In the future, we hope to have access to input from an experienced synthetic biologist or past iGEM advisor. With this aid, we can avoid experimental and lab error as well as ensure safety. | |
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Revision as of 15:03, 16 June 2014
Safety
iGEM Safety Questions
1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
Montgomery High School's iGEM team works in a high school laboratory with Containment Level 1. We use non-pathogenic strains of E.coli and we will not be working with any hazardous chemicals. Nevertheless, we ensure that all laboratory students tie up any long hear and wear gloves, safety goggles, pants, closed-toed shoes. All students underwent a lab safety demonstration early January and practiced streaking bacteria, pipetting, etc. In regard to our lab environment, the classroom has multiple showers, a fire extinguisher, an eye-wash station, multiple sinks, and a first aid kit.
2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues?
We have not created any new BioBrick partss this year.
3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
There is no biosafety group at our high school. Our iGEM team is responsible for safety. As such, we have completed a mandatory lab safety quiz as well as practiced with certain equipment.
We follow the World Health Organization Laboratory safety regulations: http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/en/Biosafety7.pdf
4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?
In the future, we hope to have access to input from an experienced synthetic biologist or past iGEM advisor. With this aid, we can avoid experimental and lab error as well as ensure safety.
