NCKU-iGEM team is concerned with biosafety and biosecurity in every aspect of our project. We realize one major responsibility of iGEMers is to show the public that the project as well as synthetic will not do harm to the environment and the society. We make checks on every safety detail including materials, lab, designed device, and every team member.

1. Material and project safety? OF COURSE

Chassis organism
We chose E. coli as our chassis organism. Three lab strains were selected: “DH5 alpha”, “BL21(DE3)”, “W3110”, and ”W3110 (L5T7)”. These lab strains are reported to be not pathogenic to human. We construct our design with these strains in authorized lab (biosafety level 1 lab) only.
New parts construction
We chose E. coli as our chassis organism. Three lab strains were selected: “DH5 alpha”, “BL21(DE3)”, “W3110”, and ”W3110 (L5T7)”. These lab strains are reported to be not pathogenic to human. We construct our design with these strains in authorized lab (biosafety level 1 lab) only.

Database

In order to save data from our device, we set up a database in Firebase, including carbon dioxide concentration, pH value and temperature obtained by sensors in our device.

App

To make our device more user-friendly, we designed an app to get data from our database. The manager of the factory can easily see the data immediately. Besides, we set up a notification system. As long as users connect their smart phone to the internet, they can immediately get the warning notification from the device if the data goes wrong.