Team:KIT-Kyoto/Safety

Safety

Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues? No issues of researcher safety, public safety or environmental safety raised up during our KIT-Kyoto iGEM 2010 project. All our work was performed fallowing the guidelines of the safety standards required by biosafety level 1. Rules of best microbiological practices were applied. Our project ‘’E.coli Pen’’ enables an appreciator to take a pen, draw and color. Since ‘’E.coli Pen’’ has H₂O₂ as bacterial killing means, it prevents transgenic E.coli from spreading. (See the article of E.coli survival curve by H₂O₂ density.) Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues? No. We developed some parts of producing fluorescence protein used by H₂O₂ responsive promoter. These parts are completely harmless.

Is there a local biosafety group, committee or review board at your institution? （What does your local biosafety group think about your project?） Yes. We have bio safety group at KIT, and our project has been monitored by them. The leader of this biological safety group was Prof Yamaguchi. Furthermore, there is an upper level committee of transgenic experiences at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Our project has also received accreditation from this committee. All material handled or distributed are non-hazardous and non-infectious. It agrees with all safety standards requested by bio safety level 1. Therefore, Prof. Yamaguchi and other education stuff and Instructors fully support the work done by this iGEM team.