Preemptive Approach to Combatting and Characterizing Emerging Synthetic Opioids.

Monday, February 8th, 2021 1:00:00 PM EST – 2:00:00 PM EST Duration: 1 hour This webinar seeks to describe how preemptive synthesis and characterization of potent psychoactive substances from the literature can aid forensic scientists in the identification of unknowns…

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Utility of Microbes in Forensic Science

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 1:00:00 PM EST – 2:00:00 PM EST Duration: 1 hour The presenter will discuss the definition of forensic microbiology, a timeline of when it first became popular, and how it differs from molecular epidemiology. The webinar…

2020 Year in Review

A Message from the FTCoE 2020 was a big year for the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence. With five podcast seasons, a full research and development symposium, our first virtual conference, eight reports, and over thirty webinars, we continued to…

Emerging Methods for Body Fluid Analysis

This webinar originally occurred on Thursday, January 14th, 2021 Duration: 1.5 hours The Forensic Technology Center of Excellence hosted a panel of subject matter experts to discuss emerging methods for body fluid analysis. This webinar is broken up into three…

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Deaths in Custody: A Comprehensive Review

We are thrilled to offer ABMDI Continuing Education Credits for this event. See below for details. Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 1:00:00 PM ET – 2:00:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour – Join the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner of the Washington,…

An Automated Single Cell Separation Technique to Improve Mixture Deconvolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2020 1:00:00 PM ET – 2:00:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Although the interpretation of mixed DNA samples is commonplace in forensic analyses, complex samples often present interpretational challenges. These complexities are introduced through a variety of…

Network Forensics: Challenges and Tools

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 1:00:00 PM ET – 2:00:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour(s) In response to criminal investigations involving digital evidence, law enforcement needs forensically sound tools to acquire, evaluate, process, and present the data to the court. In…

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Effects of DNA Extraction Methods on Recovery, Degradation, and Loss

Original Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 1:00:00 PM ET – 2:00:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour DNA recovered from forensic and ancient DNA (aDNA) sources is generally expected to be in low copy number and degraded in strand length. However,…