Team:Cornell/project/hprac

Beyond the Bench

This year, we set out with three main goals in mind:

• Assess the environmental risks associated with our project,
• evaluate the applicability of our device to a variety of applications, and
• educate the public about synthetic biology and how it pertains to everyday life.

To these ends, we adopted a novel approach to risk assessment and discussed our project in great detail with the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative, local water monitoring groups, environmental groups, scientific researchers and more.