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Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee
The Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee focuses on standards and guidelines related to taxonomic identification, individualization, and geographic origin of non-human biological evidence based on morphological and genetic analyses.
Officers | Members | Standards | Other Work Products
Officers
Christina Lindquist, Subcommittee Chair, UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Forensic Unit
Vacant, Subcommittee Vice Chair
Ashley Spicer, Subcommittee Executive Secretary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Members
Tasha Bauman, Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic Lab
Alyse Bertenthal, Wake Forest Law School (Legal Task Group representative)
Kelly Carrothers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Law Enforcement Division
Nicole Chinnicci, East Stroudsburg University
Hope Draheim, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Robert Grahn, University of California Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
Rachel Houston, Sam Houston University
Rebecca Johnson, Smithsonian Institute
Eileen Larney, Clark R. Bavin National Fish & Wildlife Forensic Laboratory
Kelly Meiklejohn, North Carolina State University
Erin Meredith, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Jeff Rodzen, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Christopher Saunders, South Dakota State University (Statistics Task Group representative; Trace Materials Subcommittee affiliate)
Piper Schwenke, NOAA Fisheries
Michael Stockdale, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Dyan Straughan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Jen Tinsman, US Fish & Wildlife National Forensics Laboratory
Tabitha Viner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Quality Task Group and Terminology Task Group Chair)
Miko Wilford, Iowa State University (Human Factors Task Group representative)
Wildlife Forensic Biology Affiliate List
Standards
On the OSAC Registry
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ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards. 2019. 1st. Ed. (added March 2, 2021).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards. 2019. 1st. Ed. (added June 3, 2020).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics. 2019. 1st. Ed. (added March 2, 2021).
- ANSI/ASB Standard 047, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing. 2019. 1st. Ed. (added June 3, 2020).
- ANSI/ASB Standard 138, Standard for Collection of Known DNA Samples from Domestic Mammals. 2022. 1st. Ed. (added November 7, 2023).
- Note: This replaced OSAC 2021-N-0001 on the OSAC Registry.
- OSAC 2021-S-0006, Standard for the Use of GenBank for Taxonomic Assignment of Wildlife (added November 2, 2021 and sent to ASB for further development and publication).
Published by a Standards Developing Organization (SDO) & Eligible for the OSAC Registry
- ANSI/ASB Standard 046, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standards—STR Analysis. 2019. 1st. Ed.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 048, Wildlife Forensic DNA Standard Procedures. 2019. 1st. Ed.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 106, Wildlife Forensics - Protein Serology Method for Taxonomic Identification. 2020. 1st. Ed.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 111, Standard for Training in Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Analysis for Taxonomic Identification. 2020. 1st. Ed.
At an SDO for Further Development & Publication
- OSAC 2021-S-0006, Standard for the Use of GenBank for Taxonomic Assignment of Wildlife (OSAC Proposed Standard on the Registry).
Under Development
- OSAC 2021-S-0014, Standard for Reference Collections in Wildlife Forensic Biology: Genetics and Vertebrate Morphology.
- OSAC 2022-S-0011, Standard for Construction of Multilocus Databases.
- Genetic Methods to Determine an Individual of Potential Hybrid Origin.
- Standard for Developing and Validating STR Multiplex Panels.
- Validation of Wildlife Sequences in Public Databases.
- Standard for Interpreting STR Data in Forensic Wildlife Cases When No Allelic Ladder is Available.
- Method for Geographic Assignment of Individual Animals.
Other Work Products
Research & Development Needs
- See the research and development needs identified by the Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee.