Team:ETH Zurich/Wetlab/Safety

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For iGEM 2008 teams are asked to detail how they approached any issues of biological safety associated with their projects.
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== Safety ==
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Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
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*researcher safety,
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*public safety, or
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*environmental safety?
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Specifically, teams should consider the following four questions:
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      The lab of Prof. Sven Panke is a biosafety 1 laboratory. We worked exclusively with ''E. coli'' and
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      well-characterized agents not known to cause disease in healthy adult humans, and of minimal potential
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      hazard to laboratory personnel and the environment. Using standard microbiological techniques, all
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      materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.
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#Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
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Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
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#*researcher safety,
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#*public safety, or
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#*environmental safety?
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#Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
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#What does your local biosafety group think about your project?
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#Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues? 
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#*If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry?
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Teams, please document any answers to these (or other) safety questions in your presentation, wiki presentation, or poster. Judges will be asked to evaluate your project, in part, on the basis of if and how you considered and addressed issues of biological safety.
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      ETHZ is part of a [http://www.efbs.admin.ch/en/index.html Federal Expert Commission for Biosafety FECB].
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      At our institute, one of our supervisors (Andreas Meyer) is actually in charge of the biosafety rules.
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What does your local biosafety group think about your project?
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      Andreas Meyer thinks that our project is without any concern regarding biosafety.
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Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues? 
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      Not that we would know of.  

Latest revision as of 04:23, 30 October 2008

Safety

Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:

  • researcher safety,
  • public safety, or
  • environmental safety? 
     The lab of Prof. Sven Panke is a biosafety 1 laboratory. We worked exclusively with E. coli and
     well-characterized agents not known to cause disease in healthy adult humans, and of minimal potential
     hazard to laboratory personnel and the environment. Using standard microbiological techniques, all 
     materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.

Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? 

     ETHZ is part of a [http://www.efbs.admin.ch/en/index.html Federal Expert Commission for Biosafety FECB].
     At our institute, one of our supervisors (Andreas Meyer) is actually in charge of the biosafety rules.

What does your local biosafety group think about your project? 

     Andreas Meyer thinks that our project is without any concern regarding biosafety.

Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues? 

     Not that we would know of.


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