Safety is a vital aspect when working in a laboratory. Our team works in the safety level 1 lab, which is the lowest safety level and is sufficient for all our experiments. We have a chemical fume hood and a biosafety cabinet to manage risks from hazardous chemicals and handle biological materials. And we also periodically worked with our college's safety committee to examine our facilities.

To develop a safer laboratory environment for team members, our team fully complies with the safety and security rules of the iGEM competition. We classified reagents and drugs, put hazardous reagents into the special storage cabinet, and marked them for warning. And all the experiments we did this year were basic biology experiments with low risk. The organisms that we used in our project are Escherichia coli(DH5a, BL21, Nissle 1917).

Nianhui Zhang, the PI of our team, is responsible for the biosafety of our lab. He is very experienced in safety management because of his 28 years' work. He comes to the lab nearly every day to identify there is no risk. And also, he always teaches us knowledge about lab safety.