Community Biology Biosafety Handbook Portal

[Beta Draft]

Welcome to Genspace’s portal for the Community Biology Biosafety Handbook! 

The handbook is now open for beta testing with community biologists. Please feel free to review and add comments as you see fit. The handbook is designed to be an open manual that offers biosafety protocols, practices, and recommendations aimed specifically for the community biology movement. 

This handbook is designed as a living document that can be updated and expanded by the community. Because both biotechnology and the Community Biology movement are rapidly evolving, the information here will need to be updated periodically. Also, given the variety of labs, the diverse local and national laws and regulations around labs, and the variety of interests among lab members, there will always be more that can be covered. 

We chose an open format for the handbook so that members of the community can review, update, and expand the contents. For this Beta version, we’ve opened the document for comments. At a later stage, this document will be administrated by a body created by community members, and ultimately, it will be the community’s decision on how best to maintain this handbook. We hope this will be a useful to you and your lab!

We would like to acknowledge the time, effort, and energy they put towards making this handbook a reality. Thank you Angela Armendariz, Patrik D’haeseleer, David Gillum, Daniel Grushkin, Eric Harness, Todd Kuiken, and Jenny Molloy.

Thank you to Open Philanthropy for supporting this project.