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<p>Check out our <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Safety/Final_Safety_Form?team_id=1635">Final Safety Form</a> for more information!</p>
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<p>For more information on Biosafety and our project, go our <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:UGA-Georgia/Practices">Human Practices</a> page!</p>
  
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<h2>Safety in iGEM</h2>
 
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<p>Please visit <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Safety">the main Safety page</a> to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM.</p>
 
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<p>On this page of your wiki, you should write about how you are addressing any safety issues in your project. The wiki is a place where you can <strong>go beyond the questions on the safety forms</strong>, and write about whatever safety topics are most interesting in your project. (You do not need to copy your safety forms onto this wiki page.)</p>
 
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<h4>Safe Project Design</h4>
 
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<p>Does your project include any safety features? Have you made certain decisions about the design to reduce risks? Write about them here! For example:</p>
 
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<li>Choosing a non-pathogenic chassis</li>
 
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<li>Choosing parts that will not harm humans / animals / plants</li>
 
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<li>Substituting safer materials for dangerous materials in a proof-of-concept experiment</li>
 
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<li>Including an "induced lethality" or "kill-switch" device</li>
 
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<h4>Safe Lab Work</h4>
 
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<p>What safety procedures do you use every day in the lab? Did you perform any unusual experiments, or face any unusual safety issues? Write about them here!</p>
 
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<h4>Safe Shipment</h4>
 
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<p>Did you face any safety problems in sending your DNA parts to the Registry? How did you solve those problems?</p>
 
  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 22:10, 18 September 2015

General Safety

To begin, all team members were taught how to properly operate all lab equipment and were under close supervision until determined they could safely comply. Also, complete and concise protocols of all lab procedures were constantly referred to ensure the safety of team members and instructors alike. Other general topics such as proper waste disposal, attire, and cleanliness were applied to everyday lab tasks.



Organismal Safety

Due to the fact of our organism being a strict anaerobe, several precautions had to be taken to ensure its safety and hence reproducible results. All work had to be done in an anaerobic chamber, with all test tubes being sealed from the outside environment and pressurized with nitrogen. All frozen stock was kept at -80 degrees Celsius in which oxygen diffusion into the cryo-tube is negligible. All organisms used were safety level 1.





Check out our Final Safety Form for more information!

For more information on Biosafety and our project, go our Human Practices page!