Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds is the manager of the Natural History Museum’s Molecular Collections facility (biobank), launched in 2012.
After graduating from Leeds University in 1986 with BSc (Double 1st Class Honours) Biochemistry and Physiology, Jackie worked in research and development in industry and academia, accumulating over 9 years’ and 20 years’ experience respectively in biodiversity biobanking (museums and herbaria), collecting, curating and providing high quality bioresources to biodiversity researchers across the world, and biodiversity genetic research, to support taxonomy and phylogeny for species across the Tree of Life.
Jackie is an active global biodiversity collections, preservation and research networker; member and organiser of key consortia, committees and working groups including: Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN), Frozen Ark Project Advisory Board Member, European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) and International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Enviro-Bio Working Groups, SYNTHESYS+ (under CETAF umbrella): EU Museum and Herbarium Molecular Collections and UK Biological Resource Centre Network (UKBRCN), linking non-human and clinical collections e.g. CABI and PHE, including living collections, cell cultures and micro-organisms.
Jackie has been an invited speaker at international biodiversity and biobanking symposia worldwide from 2009 to date, involved in NHM Public Engagement and Learning with guided tours of NHM cryofacility and biobank collections for scientific visitors and public, hosting NHM public presentations ‘Nature Live’, ‘NHM Lates’ and filming for media, educational and interactive presentations, and provision of training courses for biodiversity molecular collections and research (field and lab) worldwide from 2005.
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