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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
Barry Baker, National Fish and Wildlife Service
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, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Robert Grahn, University of California
Rachel Jacobs, Ph.D., National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Rebecca Johnson, Smithsonian Institute
Kelly Meiklejohn, Ph.D., 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)
Michael Stockdale, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Dyan Straughan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tabitha Viner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Quality Task Group representative)
Miko Wilford, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Human Factors Task Group representative)
Standards
On the OSAC Registry
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ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards, First Edition, 2019 (added March 2, 2021).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019 (added June 3, 2020).
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ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics, First Edition, 2019 (added March 2, 2021).
- ANSI/ASB Standard 047, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, First Edition, 2019 (added June 3, 2020).
- OSAC 2021-N-0001, Wildlife Forensics Method-Collection of Known Samples from Domestic Mammals (added April 6, 2021) Note: ASB published an updated version of this document (ANSI/ASB 138) in May 2022 which is currently undergoing the Registry approval process.
- 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, First Edition, 2019.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 048, Wildlife Forensic DNA Standard Procedures, First Edition, 2019.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 106, Wildlife Forensics - Protein Serology Method for Taxonomic Identification, First Edition, 2020.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 111, Standard for Training in Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Analysis for Taxonomic Identification, First Edition, 2020.
- ANSI/ASB Standard 138, Standard for Collection of Known DNA Samples from Domestic Mammals, First Edition, 2022.
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this is the sdo-published version of osac 2021-n-0001, currently on the OSAC registry.
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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.
- Validation of Wildlife Sequences in Public Databases.
- Standard for Interpreting STR Data in Forensic Wildlife Cases When No Allelic Ladder is Available.
- Genetic Methods to Determine an Individual of Potential Hybrid Origin.
- Method for Geographic Assignment of Individual Animals.
- Standard for Developing and Validating STR Multiplex Panels.
Other Work Products
Research & Development Needs
- See the research and development needs identified by the Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee.