Safety and containment were a top priority for our team. We wanted to ensure all of our team members met the training requirements as outlined in the University of Calgary’s safety policy. Mandatory training comprised of a biosafety and Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems (WHMIS) course. Furthermore, all team members participated in a two week molecular biology workshop which taught us the safe and efficient way of performing important lab techniques.

For the duration of our project we used E. coli (Top10) and (com K)which are both level one organisms. The safety precautions stated on Material Safety Data Sheets were taken into consideration when using chemical within the lab. Lastly, all undergraduate students were supervised at all times by grad student or the lab technician.