Greta Frankham Biobanking - Blue Sky Horizons (ABNA 19th Annual Conference)

Greta Frankham

Dr Greta Frankham is aconservation geneticist andwildlife forensic scientist at the Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics (ACWG) at the Australian Museum Research Institute.She completed herPhD at the University of Melbourne in 2012and her academic research has focused onthe conservation genetics of threatened Australian marsupial species. When shejoined the ACWG in 2011 she also moved into the field of DNA-based wildlife forensics. Dr Frankham was part of the team that established the ACWG as the first ISO17025 accredited wildlife forensics labandbiobanking facilityin Australia. Herresearch interests now span conservation and forensic science,workingon species such as;long nosed potoroos, eastern pygmy possums, long nosed bandicoots, koalas (as part of the Koala Genome Consortium), echidnas, red-tail black cockatoos,shingleback lizardsand Hawksbill turtles. Dr Frankham alsoregularlycarriesoutcasework for a range ofstate and federalagencies involved in wildlife and biosecurity compliance in Australia.