Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds is Molecular Collections Manager in the Life Sciences Department of the Natural History Museum in London, where she has been working for 22 years, in Research and Curation (Molecular Collections). She has recently established the new Molecular Collections cryofacility/NHM London Biobank for ~2 million biodiversity and environmental specimens and samples from across the globe spanning the Tree of Life, accessible to researchers worldwide. She has many contacts with museums and herbaria worldwide, which represent a large diverse population of biological specimens, including many endangered and/or extinct species, environmental time series, and agricultural and commercial interest collections, all providing invaluable genetic and environmental information for now and the future. Current climate change, global warming and the biodiversity crisis issues make these non-human repositories particularly valuable to mankind.Jackie has been an ISBER and ESBB member from 2008 and 2010 respectively, and co-chairs the joint ESBB/ISBER Environmental Biospecimen Working Group (EB WG). She was also a member of the ESBB 2013 Verona Meeting programme committee representing non-human biobanking members.
