Team:Marburg/Safety

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Safety

In our project we want to establish a new production platform for biofuel production based on ‘artificial endosymbiosis’. We choose two of the most used and well established model organisms in genetic engineering: Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli. By following and extending the guidelines for responsible and safe research, we are able to ensure minimal risks to experimentator and environment. Here, you can find all important safety aspects we followed through the course of this summer. Additionally, we focused a whole side project on safety - we created a complete database of all kill switches ever designed within the iGEM competition and were able to model four of them in detail.

Before starting our lab work, all students received a detailed safety instruction by covering all important aspects of working safely. This instruction was held by the safety officer of the Max Planck Institute for terrestrial microbiology Prof. Dr. Brandis-Heep, as well as Volker Vincon. A lab specific safety instruction was also given by our instructors. This covered for example: