Team:IIT Delhi/GMM legislation
SUMMARY
The credits for accomplishment of this project goes to the dedication, commitment and enthusiasm shown by a large number of people and parties from multiple disciplines. It gives us immense pleasure and gratification to acknowledge their support and assistance towards the execution of the project.
The institutional bodies that enforce the laws regarding the use of GMMs differ a lot across the world. In many countries in Asia (Japan, Indonesia, and Korea) and Canada, ministries and departments are responsible for enforcing the laws of GMMs. The kinds of ministries enforcing the laws as well as their numbers vary from country to country, but usually, the large organizations are in charge.
On the other hand, countries like India, Brazil, the United States, and Australia have more specialized committees or institutions of biotechnology and biosafety and these committees are responsible for enforcing the laws.
In the European Union, the European Commission is responsible for enforcing the GMO laws to be followed by all member countries. Chile doesn’t have a clear regulation for biotechnology but has responsible institutions when commercing or trading.
iGEM IIT Delhi assisted team Glasgow in 2016 for filling up survey forms designed for the people of India. This year iGEM Glasgow helped us by providing the biological parts ( pPhlF, RBS+PhlF + T, pSrpR, RBS + SrpR + T) which turned to be of immense use in forming the Oscillator.
A PhD student, Mr. Mahendra Sahare, doing a humanities project under a Supreme Court lawyer, Dr. Naveen Thayyil, has been in collaboration with iGEM IIT Delhi for the past two years. Together, we have worked on the aspect of ‘Ethical Scientific Practices’. Also, on his recent visit to IISER Mohali, he came back with a collaborative offer for iGEM IIT Delhi to mentor IISER Mohali and help in the establishment of iGEM club there. On our return from the Giant Jamboree 2016, our team members gave a presentation scheduled there, and thereafter our
team mentored the iGEM Mohali team.
Here is the link for Mohali iGEM Team: https://2017.igem.org/Team:IISER-Mohali-INDIA
As participants in the iGEM Competition, we have come to accept the ability to modify genes as an obvious fact, one that does not require much reflection on our end. At the same time, whilst we understand such possibility is granted to us by law, not many realise the extent to which law may incentivise, guide, shape and, at times, limit our efforts. It originates from politics, creates institutional procedures, gives life to new businesses, dictates the pace of scientific progress, and affects consumer choices. In this, law reflects the perceptions of its creators while its creators reflect diversity of the country’s citizens. In this, law is diverse.
In this collaboration, we aimed at creating a document that would illustrate that very depth and diversity of law. For this reason, the first issue we discussed is law-related politics, the second its bureaucracy, third law’s impact on business, fourth on science and finally on consumer behaviour. Willing to gain an even deeper understanding of GMM legislations, we have invited teams 15 from different countries to participate in these collaborative efforts. In the end, the final document has been created by 137 iGEMers from 10 teams, 10 countries, 7 different iGEM tracks and 5 continents. Have a look at the fruits of the 3 months-long interactions, discussions and meet-ups.
We thank iGEM Manchester team to initiate this collaboration and are pleased to participate.
Visit wiki ( https://2017.igem.org/Team:Manchester )
For summary and further details please refer:
Mr.Balbir Singh
Mr. Balbir is the lab-in-charge at Laser and 3-D Printing Lab at IIT Delhi. He provided us with access to his lab and was pivotal to the laser-etching which was used in the Microfluidic Chamber. Epilog LASER FUSION M2™, used for laser etching, was managed by him as well.
We would like to express our special gratitude towards iGEM Glasgow team for providing the biological parts ( pPhlF, RBS+PhlF + T, pSrpR, RBS + SrpR + T).
Mr. Lavlesh Bhanot
Mr. Lavlesh Bhanot is the Course Manager of Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility (PESR) committee IIT Delhi. He helped us in conducting the workshop under the course of Ethics and Social Responsibility. We thank him for his interest and assistance.
Mrs. Charu Maini
Mrs. Charu Maini is the Principal of DAV Public School, Sector 48,49, she played a significant role in spreading our message to other schools in Delhi. We thank her for the assistance.
Mr. Tarun Gulyami
Mr. Tarun Gulyami is the Head of Biology Department, DAV Public School, Sector 14, he showed his keen interest towards the workshop conducted and was interested to send India’s first High School team at iGEM. We appreciate his support and enthusiasm.
We would also like to thank Prof. Sangeeta Kohli (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
And Prof. P. V. Madhusudhan Rao (Mechanical Engineering Department) for their support to conduct human practices at Institute level.
Mr. Sunil, General Accountant, Prompt Enterprises has given tremendous amount of his time towards the formalities and documentation of the funding from Prompt Enterprises.
Prompt enterprises Pvt Ltd.
Without the support of our title sponsor ‘Prompt enterprises pvt ltd’ it wouldn’t have been possible to carry out our financial requirement whether it is for the lab resources or fees or travelling expenses.
Snapgene
We would also like to express our gratitude towards Snapgene for providing us access to the software. It turned out to be of immense use for designing the biological parts.
We thank our previous sponsors for their valuable support:
Mahindra, Coding Blocks, DHL, Medanta, Woodland, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India.
Wetlab
Kshitij Rai, Saksham Sharma, Abhilash Patel, Pulkit Srivastava, Sashi Kalan, Pratyush Maini, Divya Choudhary, Siddhesh Gandhi.
Computational Modelling
Abhilash Patel, Tarun Mahajan, Kshitij Rai, Pulkit Srivastava, Shreya Johri.
Human Practices
Milind Zode, Tanuj Garg, Kshitij Rai, Pulkit Srivastava, Ishank Pahwa, Nipun Gupta.
Wiki Development
Pratyush Maini, Divya Choudhary.
Creative, Design and Content Development
Divya Choudhary, Pratyush Maini, Kshitij Rai, Varuni Sarwal, Preeti Raj, Abhishek Kumar, Shreya Johri, Tanuj Garg, Milind Zode.
Marketing
Tanuj Garg, Nipun Gupta, Ishank Pahwa, Pratyush Maini, Divya Choudhary, Pulkit Srivastava, Sashi Kalan, Milind Zode.
We would like to thank our institute
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