Safety

Lab Safety

All ASU team members were trained through EH&S courses in Lab Safety, Hazardous Waste Management, Fire Safety, Biological and Bloodborne Pathogens, Gas Cylinders, and Recombinant DNA. These course provided a comprehensive overview of lab safety. In addition, all lab members completed a "cloning bootcamp," in which basic cloning knowledge was assessed before moving on to other tasks. The details for the bootcamp can be found here .

The research in this lab was all completed under Standard Operating Procedures. This research was all with accordance with ASU's Biological Safety Manual, found here. The safety manual draws upon the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules.

The lab space in which wet-lab work was done was all classified as BSL1 with the exception of the tissue culture room, which was BSL2. The lab was located in the 2nd floor wet-lab at Arizona State University's ISTB4 building. Other work, such as mass spectrometry, was done at the Biodesign Institute at ASU.

Please visit the main Safety page to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM.

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 go beyond the questions on the safety forms, 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.)