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Biology Scientific Area Committee

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The Biology Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards activities across multiple forensic science disciplines, and manages the activities of the following subcommittees and task group:

Members

Carl Sobieralski, SAC Chair, Indiana State Police Laboratory Division

Jason Bundy, SAC Vice Chair, Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Jarrah Kennedy, Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee Chair, Texas Forensic Science Commission

Tasha Bauman, Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee Chair, Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic Lab

Ashley Spicer, Forensic Proteomics Task Group Chair, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Dawn Boswell, University of North Texas Health Science Center (legal representative)

Simone Gittelson, District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences (statistics representative)

Kate Philpott,  VCU and Self-employed (legal representative)

Nadja Schreiber Compo, Florida International University (human factors representative)

Sara Walker, ANSI National Accreditation Board (quality representative)

Reference Documents

Informative Literature for Forensic Biology and DNA 

Presentations

OSAC Public Update Meeting: Biology/DNA SAC Updates, June 2019

Created August 28, 2020, Updated October 2, 2026
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