Sample Collection and Processing Subcommittee
The Sample Collection and Processing Subcommittee’s primary responsibility is to support sample custodians, sample ambassadors, national nodes, regional nodes, across the African continent to safely and securely source their biological specimens for transmission to the relevant curation facilities and sequencing centres.
This subcommittee works closely with all other committees and subcommittees to ensure the relevant legal and ethical frameworks as well sample processing standards are adhered to and, ensures the implementation of and adherence to the Nagoya protocol. This subcommittee manages a range of sub-teams which includes taxonomic working groups – to assist in identifying priority species and; a team of national representatives – who are national Access and Benefit Sharing focal persons within their respective countries and who work closely with sample ambassadors to securely and ethically source species from their respective countries.
A major responsibility of this subcommittee is also to ensure all specimen data are curated and managed appropriately and to ensure IP and data ownership are always mutually beneficial between sample ambassadors and AfricaBP.
Members
- Verena Ras, Ms. - Chair | University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Joseph Kirangwa, Mr. - Co-Chair | University of Cologne, Germany
- Alan Buddie, Dr. | Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), UK
- Lucky Tendani Nesengani, Dr. - Co-Chair | University of South Africa, South Africa
Taxonomic working groups members
Fishes
- Ole Seehausen, Prof. | University of Bern, Switzerland
Algae
- Roksana Majewska, Dr. North-West University, South Africa
Plants
- Julian Osuji, Prof. | University of PortHarcourt, Nigeria
- Cathrine Ziyomo, Dr. | Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa (BecA-ILRI), Kenya
Birds
- No one listed yet
Amphibians
- No one listed yet
Mammals
- No one listed yet
Arthropods
- No one listed yet
Echinoderms
- No one listed yet
Molluscs
- No one listed yet
Annelids
- No one listed yet
Sponges
- No one listed yet
Fungi
- No one listed yet
Protists
- No one listed yet
Other eukaryotic microbes
- No one listed yet
Other eukaryotes
- No one listed yet
Nematodes
- No one listed yet
Reptiles
- No one listed yet
National Representatives
- South Africa
- Ghana