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<font size=4><center><b><u><h1>Safety</h1></u></b></center></font>
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As with any project involving culturing bacteria, appropriate safety measure were taken with our project. Though none of the bacteria we work with are human pathogens or environmental liabilities, it is possible that unwanted contaminants could be unintentionally cultured in large volumes. Therefore, we treat every culture as if it were dangerous and take important precautions, such as wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), cleaning up any spills with 10% bleach or 70% ethanol, and autoclaving all culture tubes and plates before disposing of their contents.
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<font size=2>As with any project involving culturing bacteria, appropriate safety measure were taken with our project. Though none of the bacteria we work with are human pathogens or environmental liabilities, it is possible that unwanted contaminants could be unintentionally cultured in large volumes. Therefore, we treat every culture as if it were dangerous and take important precautions, such as wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), cleaning up any spills with 10% bleach or 70% ethanol, and autoclaving all culture tubes and plates before disposing of their contents.
Whenever the team was performing procedures, everybody wore safety goggles and gloves. We followed all procedures very carefully, and we were circumspect with cleanup after experiments.
Whenever the team was performing procedures, everybody wore safety goggles and gloves. We followed all procedures very carefully, and we were circumspect with cleanup after experiments.
The team was supervised by Mrs. Standeven, Dr. Styczynski, and Mrs. Cochran the entire time we were in the Georgia Tech lab.
The team was supervised by Mrs. Standeven, Dr. Styczynski, and Mrs. Cochran the entire time we were in the Georgia Tech lab.
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====1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:====
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<br><h2>1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of researcher safety,public safety, or environmental safety?</h2>
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Our project uses E. Coli bacteria. According to the World Health Organization Laboratory Biosafety Manual, our project is at a level 1.
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If the project goes according to plan, there is no risk to the environment or the general public. There is a slight risk to team members due to the use of ethidium bromide when running gel electrophoresis. Therefore, we follow all safety procedures very carefully. For example, team members change their gloves after using anything at the ethidium bromide workstation. All of our team members have recieved biosafety training at Lambert High School and have taken a safety test. Additionally, several members of the team have completed Right to Know, General Lab Safety, Biohazard training and Recombinant DNA Safety Training offered by Georgia Institute of Technology.
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If our contamination procedures go wrong, it will pose no threat to the environment because all of our bacteria is safe.
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#Then consider risks to team members, publics and environment if the project does not go according to plan.  What are risks if safety measures such as containment procedures go wrong and organisms or parts are released?  What are risks to security from malicious misuse?    How are you addressing such risks?
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====2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues? ====
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<br>Our project uses E. Coli bacteria and according to the World Health Organization Laboratory Biosafety Manual, our project is at a level 1. If the project goes according to plan, there is no risk to the environment or the general public however there is a slight risk to team members due to the use of ethidium bromide when running gel electrophoresis. Therefore, we follow all safety procedures very carefully. For example, team members change their gloves after using anything at the ethidium bromide workstation. All of our team members have recieved biosafety training at Lambert High School and have taken a safety test Additionally, several members of the team have completed Right to Know, General Lab Safety, Biohazard training and Recombinant DNA Safety Training offered by Georgia Institute of Technology to further secure the safety of our team members and project and to ensure the procedures are as safe as possible. If our contamination procedures go wrong, it will pose no threat to the environment because all of our bacteria is safe. All waste was disposed of through proper biohazard safety protocols, including sterilizing, using the autoclave, and cleaning with bleach and ethanol. We keep samples under lock and key.
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No. None of the BioBricks that we used this year raise any safety issues.
 
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Please reference the biosafety level of parts.  If you are working with anything other than a BSL1 organism, take extra care with this question. Your nation regulates handling and transfer of pathogens and parts associated with pathogenicity.  For a list of regulated organisms, see the [http://www.australiagroup.net/en/biological_agents.html Australia Group website].
 
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<br><h2>2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues? </h2>
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<br>No, none of the BioBricks that were made by us this year raise any safety issues. They are a 100% safe for the environment, general public, and our team members handling them.
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We have a biosafety committee at our school which oversees our safety procedures. They approved our project.
 
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<br>We are working with Principal Investigator Dr. Mark Styczyinski, and our project is under review by the Georgia Tech biosafety review board. The review board is completely in favor of our project since it is in compliance with university requirements as well as national regulations.
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<br><h2>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? </h2>
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<br>To deal with safety issues, for future iGEM competition, all Biobrick part should contian a potential knockout device. Also, Biobrick parts can be screened for potentially dangerous pathogens through the use of a variety of software that can be found at universities like Georgia Tech.</font>
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This is an open-ended space for you to consider and suggest ways of improving safety or safety awareness at iGEM and beyond.   Some iGEM teams have offered ideas (and sometimes full projects) to limit gene flow, to create software for screening pathogens, and to reduce reliance on antibiotic resistant markers.  Other iGEM projects have discussed concerns that might arise if the project succeeded and became widely used, as commercial product or other means of distribution.  Some iGEM projects have discussed risks that might materialize if the knowledge generated or methods developed were to become more widely available.
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