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       <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#5D5D5D"><h3>Team  Southampton would like to thank and recognise the following people at the  University of Southampton, for their roles in the iGEM2009 Southampton project:
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        <h3>iGEM 2009 Team:Southampton answers the safety considerations issued by iGEM HQ.</h3>
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            <h3>Would  any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:</h3>
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<h3>Prof. George Attard for arranging and coordinating    the iGEM Southampton project, and for directing the team in their hour(s) of    need (whilst always remaining cool, calm and collected) &ndash; maybe this has some    correlation to his mysterious absence at the iGEM jamboree?            </h3>
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            <td valign="top" bgcolor="#5D5D5D"><h3>Drs Ali Tavassoli, Eugen Stulz and Klaus-Peter    Zauner for supporting the iGEM project, practically and computationally, and    for unwittingly getting tied into accompanying 8 undergraduate and 2 new    postgraduate students to the iGEM jamboree&hellip;</h3></td>
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        <h3><em>Team:Southampton has fully considered the  safety implications of both the wetlab and outreach legacy components of their  project, submitting detailed risk assessments and genetically modified organism  (GMO) project application forms to the University of Southampton biological  safety officer. All aspects of the project have been fully approved by the university biological safety officer, and as such, Team:Southampton are confident  that no element of their project would raise safety issues relevant to researchers, the public, or the environment.</em></h3>
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             <h3>Is there  a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?</h3>
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            <h3>Rich and Steph for spending the first couple of    months of their postgraduate degrees supervising 6 undergraduate chemists and    2 undergraduate electronics and computer scientists&hellip; organising endless    meetings, sorting piles of paperwork, finding team flights and transport, and    spending long days and nights in the lab&hellip; whilst maintaining enough time to    still check facebook!</h3></td>
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        <h3><em>The University of Southampton has a health and safety  office with dedicated biological safety officer, and there is a Genetic  Modification and Biosafety Committee that regularly meets to review university  projects and project applications.</em></h3>
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        <h3><em>The University of Southampton&rsquo;s biological  safety officer agreed with the project GMO form submissions, deeming the Team:Southampton project as Activity Class 1, and as such, was happy for work  to commence, without the need to inform the UK Health and Safety Executive  (HSE). The University of Southampton Genetically Modified and Biosafety Committee  reviewed both the wetlab and outreach legacy GMO forms, approving both  applications under Activity Class 1.</em></h3>
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         <h3><em>None of the new BioBrick parts made by  Team:Southampton for iGEM 2009 raised any safety issues, and as such, no safety  issues have been documented in the Registry.</em></h3>
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Safety

Team Southampton Safety Assessment

iGEM 2009 Team:Southampton answers the safety considerations issued by iGEM HQ.

  • Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:

    • researcher safety,

    • public safety, or

    • environmental safety?

 

Team:Southampton has fully considered the safety implications of both the wetlab and outreach legacy components of their project, submitting detailed risk assessments and genetically modified organism (GMO) project application forms to the University of Southampton biological safety officer. All aspects of the project have been fully approved by the university biological safety officer, and as such, Team:Southampton are confident that no element of their project would raise safety issues relevant to researchers, the public, or the environment.

  • Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?

 

The University of Southampton has a health and safety office with dedicated biological safety officer, and there is a Genetic Modification and Biosafety Committee that regularly meets to review university projects and project applications.

  • What does your local biosafety group think about your project?

The University of Southampton’s biological safety officer agreed with the project GMO form submissions, deeming the Team:Southampton project as Activity Class 1, and as such, was happy for work to commence, without the need to inform the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The University of Southampton Genetically Modified and Biosafety Committee reviewed both the wetlab and outreach legacy GMO forms, approving both applications under Activity Class 1.

  • Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues?

    • If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry?

 

None of the new BioBrick parts made by Team:Southampton for iGEM 2009 raised any safety issues, and as such, no safety issues have been documented in the Registry.

 
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