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Team:Heidelberg LSL/Notebook safety
From 2012hs.igem.org
Laboratory Issues
In synthetic biology you work with bacteria, with life. So you have to take care in what you are doing. It is important to decide what is ethically correct when you work with this life. In synthetic biology you build bio machines which could be dangerous.
You also have to take safety precautions when you work in a laboratory. PD Dr. Rüdiger Arnold, a scientific coordinator and head of the Life-Science Laboratory, explained us how to work carefully and according to the biosafty level S1 requirements. In a safety introduction course he told us the most important precaution measures:
- you have to wear laboratory gloves, lab coats and sometimes protective goggles
- Our Sponsors Promega, Abbott and the Jugendstiftung Baden-Württemberg for the financial support and support with materials
- the Heidelberger Life-Science Lab, especially Dr. Katrin Platzer and PD Dr. Rüdiger Arnold for their general support of our project
- the Alumni des Heidelberger Life-Science-Lab e.V. for the great help with the sponsoring and their generous donation
- Finally, our friends and family for their enduring support
- Thank you - iGEM - for the great spring and summer time!
