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Team:UCSF/Safety
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Safety
Please use this page to answer the safety questions posed on the safety page.
1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of: researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety?
No, our ideas will not raise any safety issues in terms of researcher, public, and environmental safety because we are using a common and very safe lab strain of S. cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and our work with S. cerevisiae has been approved and follows the Biological Use Agreement (BUA).
2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry? how did you manage to handle the safety issue? How could other teams learn from your experience?
Even though we have not created any new BioBrick parts yet, the ones that we plan to make (such as cell-cell adhesion proteins) will not raise any safety issues because they are all categorized as BSL1.
3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project? If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?
Our project has the approval of a Biological Use Agreement (BUA) approved by UCSF Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). We have also received safety training from a personnel of the UCSF Environmental and Safety Office.
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?
Our idea for safer lab conditions is for everyone to use a staining dye called SYBR Safe to stain their agarose gels. By using SYBR Safe instead of the typically used ethidium bromide, one can reduce their chance of interacting with a carcinogen and reduce hazardous environmental waste.
