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<p><b>Lab & Researcher Safety</b></P>
  
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<p>Please visit <a href="https://2016.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>We keep safety at the forefront of our work. Through our day-to-day lab protocols and equipment, we aim to facilitate a safe approach to synthetic biology.</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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<p>Before beginning work in the lab, all our team members took a lab safety course offered by Kim Ellison at the University of Alberta. This, along with the guidance of our PI, Michael Ellison, allowed us to become familiarized with lab work prior to working independently. Our day-to-day safety protocols include wearing appropriate PPE whenever in the lab (gloves, lab coats, closed-toe shoes, and long pants), washing our hands before exiting, tying long hair back, and strictly keeping food and drinks outside of the lab. By taking these precautions, we minimize the personal risks associated with our research.
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Our lab in the Medical Sciences Building at the University of Alberta is classified as biosafety level 2, meaning that it is fit for use with moderately dangerous biological agents. Even so, all of the materials we use in the lab are well-characterized and generally non-hazardous, posing minimal hazards to our health and that of the environment. We are using a strain of E.Coli called DH5-Alpha, a non-pathogenic strain developed specifically for laboratory cloning.
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<p>We are using an E.Coli strain (DH5-Alpha) with very limited ability to survive outside of the lab, they pose virtually no risk to the environment.<p>
  
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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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<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 22:44, 16 October 2016

URBAN TUNDRA ▤

Lab & Researcher Safety

We keep safety at the forefront of our work. Through our day-to-day lab protocols and equipment, we aim to facilitate a safe approach to synthetic biology.

Before beginning work in the lab, all our team members took a lab safety course offered by Kim Ellison at the University of Alberta. This, along with the guidance of our PI, Michael Ellison, allowed us to become familiarized with lab work prior to working independently. Our day-to-day safety protocols include wearing appropriate PPE whenever in the lab (gloves, lab coats, closed-toe shoes, and long pants), washing our hands before exiting, tying long hair back, and strictly keeping food and drinks outside of the lab. By taking these precautions, we minimize the personal risks associated with our research. Our lab in the Medical Sciences Building at the University of Alberta is classified as biosafety level 2, meaning that it is fit for use with moderately dangerous biological agents. Even so, all of the materials we use in the lab are well-characterized and generally non-hazardous, posing minimal hazards to our health and that of the environment. We are using a strain of E.Coli called DH5-Alpha, a non-pathogenic strain developed specifically for laboratory cloning.

Environmental Safety

We are using an E.Coli strain (DH5-Alpha) with very limited ability to survive outside of the lab, they pose virtually no risk to the environment.