SPADA Meeting Book

Bacterial Strain Verification

Working Group Members

Linda Beck, JRAD (Co‐Chair) Shanmuga Sozhamannan, DoD, JPEO, JPMG, DBPAO (Co‐Chair)

Brian Bennett, Dugway Proving Ground Cory Bernhards, ECBC Rick Blank, NBACC Trevor Brown, JPEO Ryan Cahall, Censeo Insight /DUSA T&E Randy Hoffman, ECBC Paul Jackson, LLNL (Ret.)

Scott Jackson, NIST Katalin Kiss, ATCC Nancy Lin, NIST Timothy Minogue, USAMRIID Jason Opdyke, JPEO David Rozak, USAMRIID Mark Scheckelhoff, Armed Forced Surveillance Branch Sanjiv Shah, EPA Chuck Young, JHU/APL

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Strain Verification Working Group Work to Date

• Working Group Launch (October 16‐17, 2018) • Six teleconferences (October 2018 – April 2019) • Drafted   “ Guidelines for Verifying and Documenting the Relationships Between Microbial Cultures ” • Public comment period (June 4, 2019 – July 12, 2019) • Comments reviewed and document prepared for  SPADA review and approval