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This page will be the central hub for information about safety in iGEM 2014.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 What You Have to Do 1.1.1 Timeline 1.2 How We Can Help 2 Requirements 2.1 About-Our-Lab Form 2.2 Check-Ins 2.3 Overall Safety Form 2.4 Tell us about safety on your wiki! 3 Learn about Lab Safety for Today 4 Learn about Safety for the Future of Your Project 5 Frequently Asked Questions 6 Who is the iGEM Safety Committee?

Overview

Safety is very important!

What You Have to Do

Overall form, About Our Lab form, Check-Ins

Timeline

• Now: Read the Safety Hub and learn about safety in iGEM
• From now until the Jamborees: Complete Check-Ins before acquiring and using certain materials in your lab
• From now until the Wiki Freeze: Edit the "Our Lab" and "Safety" pages on your wiki to tell us about what you're doing
• June 9: About-Our-Lab Form is due
• June 30: Early Draft of Overall Safety Form is due
  • Let us know by 15 June if you will need an extension on the Early Draft, or your Early Draft will be substantially incomplete.
• PUT IN DATES OF OPEN OFFICE HOURS, REDDIT STYLE AMA'S, ETC
• September 1: Final Version of Overall Safety Form is due
• Dates of wiki freeze
• GIANT JAMBOREE

How We Can Help

Email safety AT igem DOT org any time, with any questions you might have!

Participate in our Virtual Open Office Hours, scheduled for THIS DAY and THAT DAY. You will need Skype to participate. CLICK HERE TO GET SKYPE

Requirements

About-Our-Lab Form

Fill out this form HERE. You should fill it out as soon as possible. It is due by the beginning of June. If you are still working on finding a lab space, and will not be able to complete the About-Our-Lab Form by the deadline,

Check-Ins

Overall Safety Form

Tell us about safety on your wiki!

Customize the "About our Lab" and "Safety"

Learn about Lab Safety for Today

Learn about Safety for the Future of Your Project

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the iGEM Safety Committee?

• Peter Carr, MIT Lincoln Laboratories
• Kirsten Jacobsen, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Tom Knight, Ginkgo BioWorks
• Todd Kuiken, Synthetic Biology Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Claudia Mickelson, MIT Environment, Health, and Safety Office
• Piers Millett, United Nations Biological Weapons Convention ISU
• Kenneth Oye, MIT Program on Emerging Technologies
• Megan Palmer, SynBERC
• Anastasia Rogaeva, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Samuel Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology