A Composite Approach To "Human Practices" From a Company

What is Human Practices? More importantly, what relevance does it have to the formation of a company? How can we develop our ideas in an ethical, safe, and environmentally conscious ways to better the world? Our human practice initiatives aimed at providing answers to these questions within the context of our companies target market: the oil and gas industry.

To achieve these aims we worked closely with our end-users and networked extensively with groups to gain importance insight into the development of our product. We worked to analyze and predict the appropriate safety and containment solutions that would be required to not only provide a safe environment to our end-users, but also to prevent our end-user or other competitors from developing our ideas. Finally, we aimed to share our experiences and learning with new iGEM groups.

Networking Events

We attended a variety of events over the last few months to create contacts within the business and synthetic biology communities. Through this we have met individuals involved in a vast number of different industries with a wide array of backgrounds. These meetings are summarized in the table below.

Biological Safety and Containment

We make safe organisms because of a lot of things we do. Hopefully one of you guys can explain it...

Outreach and Community Development

We spoke to people too. Sometimes they were kids, sometimes they were older.